I also saw the 2 *Semipalmated Plovers* at the Platte River delta area. When I saw them they were in the inlet at the SW side of the delta itself. Also present in the delta area were 2 *Semipalmated Sandpipers*, 3 *Western Sandpipers*, 6 *Leasts*, 1 *Pectoral Sandpiper*, 1 *Red-necked Phalarope*, 2 *Wilson's Phalaropes*, 1 *Lesser Yellowlegs*, 5 *Solitary Sandpipers*, 5 *Spotteds*, 3 *Baird's Sandpipers*, and a *Wilson's Snipe* feeding way out in the wide open. Most of the shorebirds were at the north end of the Kingfisher arm, but the Baird's, Pectoral and Red-necked Phalarope were at the Platte inlet, all flying in separately as I was there scoping.
A *Hammond's Flycatcher* and female *Townsend's Warbler* were in the riparian between the delta and the Kingfisher parking lot. Also here was an odd *White-breasted Nuthatch* with extensive brown coloring. The front half of the crown was brown, most of the upper wing surface was brown, and 75% of the upperparts were brown. It was a medium brown and not washed out in tone, as are might be most typical for a leucistic bird, but I suppose that is what it was. A normally-plumaged WBNU was with it, and its calls were normal for the interior form. The uplands on the Douglas Co. side of the Platte upstream of the perimeter road had a *Cassin's Vireo*, still one *Yellow-breasted Chat*, 4 *Blue-gray Gnatcatchers*, 2 *Green-tailed Towhees*,*Olive-sided Flycatcher*, *Dusky Flycatcher*, and a *Prairie Falcon* chasing a Say's Phoebe (the latter descending safely out of harm's way). At the Marina sandspit I missed the reported Sanderlings and godwits, but saw 1 *Peregrine Falcon* that made a half-hearted stoop on a *Cooper's Hawk* as it flew over the lake, 1 *Forster's Tern*, 1 *Baird's Sandpiper*, 1 *Sage Thrasher*, and a mostly Spizella sparrow flock that had 4 *Clay-coloreds* and 1 *Brewer's* with the more numerous *Chippings*. David Suddjian Littleton -- 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/CAGj6Roosf7XkyZbtEnLJ%3DrBrkfNG%2Bu3H34SGCtbiBaHkprkJSw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
