Five people joined me in the annual DFO "Scoter Trip" to various mountain lakes.
Two species of scoters were found! :-) A few Barrow's Goldeneye's were also seen as well as a surprising FIVE Greater Yellowlegs at Ice Pond in Buena Vista (VERY odd for November...*and *at such a high elevation). The weather cooperated wonderfully with very light winds and only the occasional "spitting" water droplets. Below are the summary results of the trip. Joey Kellner Littleton, Colorado Date: 5-Nov-16 Number of Species 50 Number of Individuals 8,713 Number of Checklists 11 Species Name Number Seen Canada Goose 8 Gadwall 218 American Wigeon 53 Mallard 38 Northern Shoveler 3 Northern Pintail 2 Green-winged Teal 9 Canvasback 3 Redhead 2 Ring-necked Duck 40 Lesser Scaup 28 *Surf Scoter* *1* *Black Scoter* *1* Bufflehead 1,500 Common Goldeneye 7 *Barrow's Goldeneye* *3* Common Merganser 16 Ruddy Duck 45 Common Loon *13* loon sp. *1* Pied-billed Grebe 12 Eared Grebe 220 Western Grebe 137 Bald Eagle 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Rough-legged Hawk 2 American Coot 3,000 *Greater Yellowlegs* *5* Ring-billed Gull 9 California Gull 8 Herring Gull 2 Rock Pigeon 7 Lewis's Woodpecker 3 Merlin 1 Steller's Jay 1 Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay 2 Black-billed Magpie 2 American Crow 61 Common Raven 6 Horned Lark 18 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Mountain Chickadee 1 Bushtit 12 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Townsend's Solitaire 1 European Starling 26 Dark-eyed Junco 2 Song Sparrow 1 Spotted Towhee 1 Red Crossbill 4 -- 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/b79fc5c3-5680-436d-a201-4c77ad8d0115%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
