Sorry for being delinquent on posting birds here timely. As a follow up to Dave’s post, I rode down to Chatfield Saturday morning. I stopped on the dam on my way to the sand spit and counted 58 snowy egrets lined up hunting about 630am.
I arrived at the sand spit (still Douglas county) and had 18 Avocets, a few peeps, and eventually saw 18 or so black terns way to the west. I rode over to a vantage just west of the fisherman’s pier area and counted 22 black terns going back and forth from JeffCo to Douglas co. Nice to see them way into JeffCo waters. I birded S Platte delta and had one Forster's tern. I got caught off guard by what I assumed were teal but were actually 3 shovelers and 6 pintail. I checked out the 4 assumed western grebes and one was a clark’s! I decided on a whim to go back to the sand spit and boy oh boy what a good call that was. About 19 black terns were loafing! They are one of my favorites. The avocets still were there. A Marbled Godwit dropped in. Both yellowlegs species made appearances, as did Bairds sand and a semipalmated plover called and dropped in for maybe 30 seconds and was gone. I eventually saw a flock of shorebirds flying around but didn’t get a good enough look at them in flight but knew I wasn’t sure what they were in poor lighting. There were 12 birds with one smaller than the rest. Then they landed on the water and I realized they were wilsons phalaropes. What was that smaller bird??? No new birds for the green big year, but all round quality. It was a really great morning. Add to the Curlew I had there early last Saturday morning, pretty good green birding. I didn’t find any of my targets but you know I’ll try again :) As I was packing up, a rock wren came up to the edge of the path and walked over to me. It hopped on my bike. I was 2’ from it. I got photos of it on my bike. Ha! Cheeky little birds. Good big year blog material! It’s going to be a busy bike riding couple months! I need a massage and nap 😂 I think a couple big sits at the sand spit may be warranted this fall. I can’t wait!! Good green birding! Cheers, Scott Somershoe Littleton CO Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 22, 2021, at 2:59 PM, Dave Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: > > The sandspit at the South Marina at Chatfield today around 1pm had > > 11 Black Terns > 6 Common Terns > 1 Forster's Tern > 1 Marbled Godwit > 2 California Gulls > ~150 Ring-billed Gulls > Many Pelicans, maybe a dozen DC Cormorants. > > So our shorebird search yielded 1 shorebird, but it was a good one. Earlier > today at Cherry Creek in Aurora (Arapaho County), we got a total of 4-- 2 > Solitary and 2 Spotted Sandpipers. Also many Pelicans, many Snowy Egrets, > Ring bills, and other obvious suspects. > > Dave Cameron > Denver > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Colorado Birds" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en > * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include > bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate > * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/ > --- > 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/75564ad2-a998-436a-aa30-0c5e7c949a39n%40googlegroups.com. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/ --- 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/DEB8828D-574A-4911-B2F6-58C6ECC8C568%40gmail.com.
