All: The counts of Yellow-headed & Red-winged black birds, Starlings and Grackles the past two weeks at Jim Hamm have been all over the place. Last night it was 300 (probably closer to 500) Grackles that were the predominant species, and the YHBL and RWBL counts have been up and down. In my previous post on 8/31 I called out this weekend (9/13-14) as the Blackbird Bonanza, but the birds counts lately have not been as high as they were on 8/31.
Far be it from me to say "Don't come out", but I think/hope that the really big numbers of 10,000+ birds will be a little later this month. It's still a great place to bird, albeit a little small. Union Reservoir is right across the road so easy to get some great birding in if you chose to come out. I'll post again when the counts go up, but you might put the weekend of 9/27-28 on your calendars as a reminder. In 2016 & 2017 I had seemed to be the only birder out there before sunrise and I'm really excited to have others see all the activity out there. Jay Hutchins Longmont -- 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/7f4915d1-b631-482e-ba85-d2ac3abccad4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
