Continuing our visit in Estes Park, we birded at Lake Estes around noon today and found two Solitary Sandpipers, an adult and a juvenile (not together, so they lived up to their name). Checking eBird I see that none have been reported up here in this part of the Front Range this year (lots down on the plains) and only a very few sightings in the Estes Park area in prior years, often right around this date.
A very reliable local birder we ran into this morning reported seeing a Prothonotary Warbler at the beginning of the Matthews-Reeser Bird Sanctuary area at the Lake yesterday. And to really whet your appetite, another local birder ran into a visiting birder today at the Lake who reported seeing a Varied Thrush in the rocks east of the parking area for the fishing platform on the north side of the Lake. Six of us spent a lot of time looking in that area unsuccessfully, so I can in no way vouch for the reliability of that sighting. Jim Nelson Bethesda, Maryland -- 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/4426338.1611134.1409958935189.JavaMail.root%40vms170025. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
