This last week has seen steady, small numbers of shorebirds of a great
diversity here in the four corners-Montezuma and Dolores Counties. (16
species)
Thursday 5/9-McPhee Marbled Godwits, Black-bellied Plover at
McPhee (Brenda and Coen)
Friday 5/10-McPhee Long-billed Dowitcher (Ryan Crouse)
Totten Avocet (Ute Mountain/Mesa Verde
Bird Festival)
Industrial park Pond Wilson's Snipe (Brenda and Coen)
Saturday 5/11-McPhee Sanderling (Eric Moore), Bairds' Sandpipers
(Ryan Crouse)
*Sunday 5/12-Glade Lake Black-necked Stilts, (Glenn Dunmire) first
Dolores County record*
*Wednesday 5/15-McPhee Whimbrel, (Glenn Dunmire) first Montezuma County
record*, (Erik Hendrickson got there in time to take photos)
5/15-McPhee: Western Sandpipers, Least Sandpipers,
Bairds' Sandpipers, Willet, Spotted Sandpipers, Red-necked Phalarope,
Wilson's Phalarope, and Killdeer.
5/15-We watched these birds take off just before sunset and head onwards. I
never cease to be amazed by these little creatures flying great distances
in their migration.
Good Birding
Cheers, Glenn Dunmire
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