I made two visits to Chatfield SP this morning, dodging rain in the mid-section of the a.m.
I was at the Marina sandspit just after sunrise (Douglas). There were *two **Red Phalaropes* - one in the marina itself, and the other just off the end of the spit. Also 1 *Sabine's Gull*, 2 *Common Terns* and 1 *Forster's*, 3 *Snowy Egrets*, 2 *Clark's Grebes* among the Westerns, and a nice cross section of ducks that included *Cinnamon*, *Blue-winged *and *Green-winged Teal,* a flock of 36 *Nor. Pintails* flying over, *Am. Wigeon*, *Ruddy Ducks*, and a few others. The Old Heronry overlook (Douglas) had a bunch of landbird action on the slope above the water and a nearby draw, including an *Eastern Phoebe*, *MacGillivray's Warbler*, 2 *lutescens Orange-crowned Warblers* with some of the gray-headed OCs, *Townsend's Solitaire*, 2 *Western Tanagers*, and lots more. The lake had 4 *Ring-necked Ducks* and an *Osprey*. I walked the paths in the uplands east of the Platte upstream of Kingfisher (Douglas), heading especially for the pine/cypress stand I visited the other day. The area was still very birdy with my 1st *Merlin* of the season, my first *Northern Harrier* in the area since winter, lots of sparrows (21 *Lincoln's*, 75+ *White-crowned*, 1 *Lark*, and more), 3 *Sage Thrashers*, 1 adult male *Red-naped Sapsucker* (uncommon post-breeding visitor at Chatfield?), lots of *Green-tailed Towhees*, 10 *Western Tanagers*, and 3 *Lark Buntings* flying south. Down in the riparian along the east side of the Platte (Douglas) there was a *Northern Waterthrush* at a pool off the river channel, 2 *Cassin's Vireos* (1 singing for an extended time!), 1 *Plumbeous*, more tanagers, and a *Brown Creeper *(my 1st away from the mountains this season). The Swim Beach (JeffCo) had 1 *Sabine's Gull* and two *Forster's Terns* early in the day. Then I returned there near noon and there was a *Cattle Egret* standing on the sand, 2 *Forster's *and a *Common Tern*. A *Rock Wren* was lurking among the restrooms, the closest thing to rocks in the area. At home in Ken Caryl Valley I had a *Band-tailed Pigeon* flying north (nearly late?), and my feeders still have multiple *Rufous *and a couple *Broad-tailed Hummers*, plus today 1 *Black-chinned Hummer*. David Suddjian Littleton, CA -- 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/CAGj6RorUi3%2B-akFS8GLJ3xkOLsasT7uU%3DWH3h1NxYQfsztJZLg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
