Based on his informative post, today I followed some of Bill Kaempfer's steps from his NE Colo trip last weekend. He was right about Jumbo Res shorebird habitat. Near the middle of the south end there's a small peninsula with a brown building/gray roof, I drove past it and parked near the tip. On the east side a nonbreeding plumage Ruddy Turnstone was busy turning over...stones.
I saw two Semipalmated Plovers and three Sanderlings, large numbers of sandpipers - Least, Spotted, Baird's, Semi-palmated, and Pectoral. At the far southwest corner (Sedgewick Co I believe) there were the above-mentioned sandpipers plus Stilt Sandpipers and two Marbled Godwits. On the way back I saw two Bell's Vireos at Tamarack Ranch SWA (Logan Co) at west side parking area 1, right where Bill had 8 last Sunday. I looked extensively around the county for Upland Sandpipers over a wide area for quite some time, did not see any. Dan Stringer, Larkspur, 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 [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/f13d8344-593a-4e00-b6ec-539e5e8d77a9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
