Yes, a little old now, but since there are fairly few reports from Park Co in spring, here are some other birds to add to my report the other day for my May 2 outing. It was a 121 species day in Park, which seems good to me.
Pair of WOOD DUCKS was on a pond at Shawnee Late ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK at Jefferson 6 COMMON GRACKLES near Jefferson 2 MOUNTAIN PLOVERS off County Road 56 and 3 flying near CR 24 2 AM. THREE-TOED WOODPECKERS at 2 spots along CR 56 6 RED CROSSBILLS at three spots along CR 56 2 PINE GROSBEAKS along CR 56 7 CLARK'S NUTCRACKERS at 5 spots along CR 23, and 1 at Red Hill Pass NOR. PYGMY-OWLS at CR 60 and CR 23 1 male TOWNSEND'S WARBLER at CR 23 joined in mobbing the Pygmy-Owl For the record, here are cumulative totals of waterfowl and a few other waterbirds (not an exhaustive list of all species) at Antero, Eleven Mile and Spinney Mountain reservoirs...in addition to the shorebirds and rare waterbirds I cited in my previous post. I think some of these may be pretty good counts for May in Park. Canada Goose, 120 Gadwall, 3075 American Wigeon, 129 Mallard, 130 Northern Pintail, 2 Blue-winged Teal, 113 Cinnamon Teal, 58 Northern Shoveler, 754 Green-winged Teal, 903 Redhead, 208 Ring-necked Duck, 48 Lesser Scaup, 2707 Bufflehead, 1050 Common Goldeneye, 98 (big drop from Apr 22-23, but still good numbers for May) Common Merganser 48 Ruddy Duck, 1650 Eared Grebe, 506 Western Grebe, 571 Clark's Grebe, 3 Western / Clark's Grebe sp., 40 Double-crested Cormorant, 99 (looked like they were nesting at Antero) American White Pelican, 814 (looked like they were nesting at Antero) White-faced Ibis, 17 American Coot, 1832 Franklin's Gull, 63 Ring-billed Gull, 156 (species seemed to increase since my Apr 22-23 trip, when few were present, with immatures being prevalent now but adults before) California Gull 160 (count would have been much higher if I looked at southern 11 Mile) David Suddjian Littleton, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAGj6RoqR9srB8uHu15bt1n8Qew1Fzb__15oAJG5M-1N9V3o%2BgA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
