All, I stopped at Chatfield state park (Douglas co) and relocated the two long-billed curlews Doug Kibbe reported earlier in the prairie dog town by the east entrance in the pouring rain about 4pm.
About 315 (in light rain) I birded the "swim beach" area (Jeff Co) which is pretty much under water. Thousands of swallows with the majority being Violet-green (800+), hundreds of Trees and a smattering of bank, barn and cliff mixed in (many perched in trees over the lake). Couldn't pull out a rough-winged. A pair of American avocets were wading where the beach usually is. I also had at least 46 Lark Sparrows in the parking lot. A couple yellow-headed blackbirds were among the red-wings just north of the beach. A few blue-winged teal flew by about the time I started getting drenched. At the model airplane field (back in Douglas co) I saw one vesper and 9 lark sparrows and a male lark bunting hanging out near the pavilion and out of the pouring rain. Lots of other birds flying around that I couldn't identify thru wet windows. Could be fun birding if we get a bunch of snow, but it'll be rough on the swallows! Great rainy birding! Cheers, Scott Somershoe Littleton 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/1E4FD10C-09FC-4262-8640-E90697B752B9%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
