The Big Sit! at Chatfield on Sunday went about as good as the fall migration in Colorado is going...pretty slow. Forty birders attended over the course of the day and we tallied 53 species (all from one spot). The lowest Big Sit! in years past was 52 species...so at least we beat that! :-) The "best" bird was a Lincoln's Sparrow (new to the Big Sit). This brings the total number of species seen over the last 12 years to 123 species!
Lots of "big misses" this year. No terns, no Sabine's Gulls, the Surf Scoter was gone and the Red-necked Grebe was still at Plum Creek area and not seen by us from where we "sat". Other misses were land birds. No Blue Jays, Downy Woodpeckers, nuthatches, etc. Weather was great early (calm and sunny), then it became windy around 10am and then rainy.but cleared near the end of the day. Thank you to all that attended. A number of birders got to visit and "catch up" after not having seen each other for a while (a year?). Ebird checklist: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S20215756 Maybe next year we'll surpass our high count of 71 species (on two different years). We'll see! Joey Kellner Littleton, Colorado -- 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/000e01cfe75d%24fa3adc50%24eeb094f0%24%40net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
