I beat my Big Day Record of 56 species by 2 at Manitou Lake today with the help of 4 Empidonax (Cordilleran, Hammonds, Dusky, Willow); all calling in appropriate habitat.
Dave Elwonger birded with me this morning and helped me out and then I went back after the rains this afternoon. My previous record of 56 in a day at Manitou Lake Park (Fee area) was done twice on the same day on May 18th, 2010 and 2014! Today I got 58 species. Complete list below my signature. Highlights were: * Willow Flycatcher; seen both in morning giving fitz-bew song and in afternoon calling. Only seen by me two other times here in 26 years. * Hammond's Flycatcher; a recent new-comer to the big pines below the dam on the west side of the creek. First sighting of one by me here was last year. Today there were a few singing. * MacGillivray's Warbler * Lazuli Bunting Not bad for a little mountain lake. Missed on so many common birds that I could have easily gotten over 60. No chickadees (mtn and black-capped), nuthatches (pygmy and white-breasted), mourning dove, woodpeckers, coot, pied-billed grebe, etc. Still a great day. Jeff J Jones ( <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]) Teller County - 8500' - Montane Woodlands FIRST SIGHTINGS: World: 0, Location: 0, Annual: 7, World Annual: 4 Species: 58 - Subspecies: 0 - Forms: 58 Total Records: 58 Canada Goose Branta canadensis Mallard Anas platyrhynchos Blue-winged Teal Anas discors Green-winged Teal Anas crecca Common Merganser Mergus merganser Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis Western Grebe Aechmophorus occidentalis American White Pelican Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias Turkey Vulture Cathartes aura Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis Virginia Rail Rallus limicola Sora Porzana carolina Killdeer Charadrius vociferus Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularius Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata California Gull Larus californicus Eurasian Collared-Dove [a] Streptopelia decaocto Broad-tailed Hummingbird Selasphorus platycercus Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon Red-naped Sapsucker Sphyrapicus nuchalis Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus Western Wood-Pewee Contopus sordidulus Willow Flycatcher [a*] Empidonax traillii Hammond's Flycatcher [a*] Empidonax hammondii Dusky Flycatcher Empidonax oberholseri Cordilleran Flycatcher [a] Empidonax occidentalis Plumbeous Vireo Vireo plumbeus Warbling Vireo Vireo gilvus Black-billed Magpie Pica hudsonia American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos Common Raven Corvus corax Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor Violet-green Swallow Tachycineta thalassina Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica House Wren Troglodytes aedon Blue-gray Gnatcatcher [a*] Polioptila caerulea Western Bluebird Sialia mexicana American Robin Turdus migratorius Gray Catbird Dumetella carolinensis MacGillivray's Warbler Geothlypis tolmiei Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata Wilson's Warbler Cardellina pusilla Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia Lincoln's Sparrow Melospiza lincolnii Western Tanager Piranga ludoviciana Black-headed Grosbeak Pheucticus melanocephalus Lazuli Bunting [a*] Passerina amoena Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula Brown-headed Cowbird Molothrus ater American Goldfinch [a] Spinus tristis Birder's Diary - www.BirdersDiary.com <http://www.BirdersDiary.com> - 5/31/2014 -- 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/02f301cf7d3f%244caf6b10%24e60e4130%24%40JonesTC.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
