Greetings All
Today I headed south to avoid winds. Mark Peterson told me to look at a couple reservoirs in Kiowa, long dry, but no so after recent deluges. The first sizable pond has no name... mostly a flooded farm area, just south of Eads. On west side of 287/385. I pulled over off the shoulder (this is best done about sunrise). There was a fair number of shorebirds, 8 Solitaries and 2 Sanderlings being the most interesting. Far more unusual was a blue SNOW GOOSE feeding on emergent grass amongst Killdeer and Baird's Sandpipers Farther south is Jett Lake, or what I think is called Jett Lake. It is easily visible from the freeway, which is where I first looked at it from. Then I drove a bit south to the next road, went west just past a fence, and then followed a two-track north to the edge of the reservoir. It had goodly numbers of shorebirds, the best being 3 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPERS in the sw. corner (not found a couple hours later) and a Pectoral Sand. Neegronda, Neenoshe, and Ne No Spah (sorry, to lazy to look it up) were not very interesting. The latter will likely be very sweet as water levels drop At Lamar Community College Woods there was, per usual a N Cardinal... and not unexpected, but not usual for me there... a RB Woodpecker. Of more note was a PHILADELPHIA VIREO... a bright bird, entirely yellow beneath. Also present was RE Vireo and Cassin's Vireo. There is a funky Myiarchus flycatcher there. Probably a bright Ash-throated. At Tempel Grove there was another Red-eyed Vireo, and Ovenbird, 2 American Redstarts, and a MacGillivray's Warbler. An the Neenoshe Locust Grove, there was an ALDER FLYCATCHER, which flew off into the cottonwoods and tamarisk bowl that once was mostly under water. Also there was an Indigo Bunting and just a nice assortment of stuff, especially for Kiowa County, such as Cassin's Vireo and 7 Lazuli Buntings. Good Birding Steve Mlodinow Longmont 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/8D192F71F08D314-1FE4-C642%40webmail-m281.sysops.aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
