Thirteen hardy souls participated through the course of the day. 17-25F, snowy on and off, steam on the water on and off, windy and calm. Wow! Was the weather finicky! A BIG "THANK YOU" to Colorado Parks & Wildlife for bringing us hot coffee, donuts and even hot pizza for lunch!!!! Thank you SO much! In the past, bad weather has brought the most species on the Big Sit, with two years with bad weather each having 72 species. This year.75 species!! Wow! None of the participants expected this many after the first half of the day with such nasty weather. Highlights were Sabine's, Bonaparte's and Franklin's Gulls, multiple flocks of cranes throughout the day totaling 555 individuals, Surf Scoter, Baird's and Pectoral Sandpipers, and two Common Loons. We ran an eBird checklist every hour (so have 12 checklists for the day). Total species list is below.
Cackling Goose Canada Goose Wood Duck Blue-winged/Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Surf Scoter Bufflehead Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Mourning Dove American Coot Sandhill Crane Killdeer Baird's Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Wilson's Snipe Greater Yellowlegs Sabine's Gull Bonaparte's Gull Franklin's Gull Ring-billed Gull California Gull Herring Gull Common Loon Double-crested Cormorant American White Pelican Great Blue Heron Osprey Northern Harrier Cooper's Hawk Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk Great Horned Owl Belted Kingfisher Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker American Kestrel Merlin Prairie Falcon Black-billed Magpie American Crow Common Raven Horned Lark Barn Swallow Black-capped Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch Western Bluebird Mountain Bluebird Townsend's Solitaire Hermit Thrush American Robin American Pipit House Finch Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch Chipping Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco White-crowned Sparrow Song Sparrow Spotted Towhee Western Meadowlark Red-winged Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Yellow-rumped Warbler Joey Kellner Littleton, Colorado -- 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/002701d4642e%24c1e8f510%2445badf30%24%40comcast.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
