This morning I visited the Chestnut-collared Longspur location mentioned by Bill (and the visitor from Alabama) and saw 5. Thanks Bill!
Despite searching the Pawnee Grasslands a bit, I also did not find any Mountain Plover. Kevin Keirn Fort Collins, CO On Sunday, April 5, 2015 at 7:44:49 PM UTC-6, William Kaempfer wrote: > > Tina Jones and I went out on the NE plains today for grassland and water > birds. Ponds are full of dabbling ducks, but diving ducks were harder to > find. To start the day we had a FOS Swainson’s Hawk at Ireland Reservoir > between Hudson and Keansburg. We continued on to Andrick SWA and Jackson > Reservoir; the former was full of ducks with a heavy dose of American White > Pelicans plus 3 or 4 Bonaparte’s Gulls. Three Northern Harriers were > “messing around” in the area, too. Jackson was not very active other than > Ring-billed Gulls and Western Grebes, but there was a small group of 9 Snow > Geese way out on the water. > > > > We headed north from Jackson, and made a snap decision to try for > longspurs noting that Briggsdale is about as close to Jackson Res. as it is > to anything else! On the way we had another Swainson’s in Weld, just > beyond the NW corner of Morgan County. At Murphy’s Pasture we had a > smattering of McCown’s Longspurs, and then we accidentally flushed a group > of about 15 along the road being observed by a visitor from Alabama. He > accepted our apology with such grace that he pointed up on to a spot where > he had seen Chestnut-collareds as well. We backtracked to WCR 86 just west > of WCR 105 where we found said birds. (Unlike Mark Miller’s trip to > Washington County we could not add a Mountain Plover.) > > > > Then we turned for home via the Loloff/Latham area. Loloff’s resident > Black-necked Stilts were present at the north end while the playa on the > south side of WCR 48 at Lower Latham not only had another stilt flying > around, it had three Lesser Yellowlegs joining a couple of Greaters plus > four Baird’s Sandpipers. > > > > Bill Kaempfer > > Boulder > -- 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/09b7b02d-6788-4d69-bf01-25eb9513bc28%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
