We saw that bird, too. There was also an adult Forster's present, its black cap mostly intact, but fading.
Dave On Sunday, August 22, 2021 at 9:47:51 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > Birders who were present this morning around 9am at the sand spit noticed > this Tern (IMG_4089) with the dark eye line behind the eye. We tentatively > thought it was a juvenile or nonbreeding adult Forster's Tern. > Is this the one Forster's that Dave ID'd? > In the second photo are they all Common Terns then? > > Best, > > Rosanne > > > > On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 3:45 PM Scott Somershoe <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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. 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