Hi all
Eagle's Nest Open Space/Larimer
- Townsend's Warbler
- Clark's Nutcracker - 5
Windsor Reservoir--draining down quite a bit, lots of shoreline
- Ton of what seem to be our expected gulls
- Long-billed Curlew on south shore
Woods Lake--lots of north shoreline exposed
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Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: August 24, 2015
This is the Rare Bird Alert, Monday, August 24 sponsored by Denver Field
Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species).
Barrow's Goldeneye (Clear Creek)
Little Blue
Shorebird numbers have been improving weekly at Chatfield Reservoir as the
water level drops.
This morning the South Platte River delta downstream from Kingfisher Bridge (on
the Jefferson Co. side) held two Semipalmated Plovers plus Western, Least and
Baird's Sandpipers.
Meanwhile the marina
I also saw the 2 *Semipalmated Plovers* at the Platte River delta area.
When I saw them they were in the inlet at the SW side of the delta itself.
Also present in the delta area were 2 *Semipalmated Sandpipers*, 3 *Western
Sandpipers*, 6 *Leasts*, 1 *Pectoral Sandpiper*, 1 *Red-necked Phalarope*,
It was hot and quiet today migrantwise in Lamar but at the two Lamar
cemeteries, we did have the following:
Riverside Cemetery (Maple Street, north end of town east of Main):
*Great Crested Flycatcher (photographed with a green praying mantis in its
beak!)
Least Flycatcher (1)
Yellow Warbler