My wife had two pairs of mountain bluebirds at Clement on Friday - thank you for this update! She's walking there a lot, so now she'll know she should be looking out for crazy stuff!
I think we saw your prairie falcon Saturday - cool bird! Bryan On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 10:30:03 AM UTC-6, Scott Somershoe wrote: > > With the stay at home order, I've been birding Clement Park, Jefferson > Co., a lot more than even usual. Clement is about across the street from > my house, so easy access. Anyway, I've been birding there fairly regularly > and have gotten some crazy birds for that place in the last year or so > (esp. considering the lack of habitat). Recently, I've been slowly picking > up some good birds for the little place that it is. > > A few highlights (for me anyway): > April 13 - In the driving snow I had an early Bank Swallow (others were > reported around the area that day too) and a Greater Yellowlegs. These were > my firsts for the park. > https://ebird.org/checklist/S67141436 > > April 16 - Again in the snow, I had my first Turkey Vulture for the park, > which is really weird with how much time I've spent there over the years. > Park bird #99, not that I'm counting. > > April 17 - I stumbled on the Eastern Phoebe that Tina Jones reported a few > days earlier. Park bird #100! Then almost immediately I found a Vesper > Sparrow, which was also new for my park list. > > April 19 - Last evening I was out with the family and we had a Willet on > the "shoreline" on the east side. The water is up and there's almost no > shoreline at all! The Willet was very tame and my boys (3.5 yrs old) and > daughter (7) got to see it, and then of course the boys yelled and it > flew. Great bird for this park. > > April 20 - This morning I went to check on the Willet situation and found > a gorgeous adult female Wilson's Phalarope instead! Park bird #103. Then > thinking it couldn't get much weirder, a pair of LATE Greater White-fronted > Geese flew around a couple times, calling, and giving good looks. They > circled and flew northwest. Weird encounter. Then my second park record of > a Prairie Falcon was perched on a light post barely 100m from the house > (got my first yard Prairie a week ago, with 2nd yard records of Peregrine > and Golden Eagle all within 45 min!). This Prairie let me sneak around to > get a better lighting and looks (phone-binoc photo in my eBird list below) > and we stared at each other a bit before it flew over the Columbine > memorial, without even looking back, but it scared the daylights out of the > prairie dogs. > https://ebird.org/checklist/S67531024 > > It has been really fun to see what I can find at the "usual little patch" > when I hit it constantly! > > Good local birding, > Scott Somershoe > Littleton 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/8d371d12-815b-472c-bc7d-2e43c2dc61ee%40googlegroups.com.
