Today's DFO "Big Month" field trip to Chatfield SP and a few other places rounded up some 87 species, adding at least 18 new ones to the DFO "Big Month" tally.
A pre-dawn extension of the trip enjoyed 4 *Common Poorwills* at the Dakota Formation hogback as heard from the Cathy Johnson Trail, and another was heard from the parking lot of Hildebrand Ranch park. The marsh near the south end of South Valley Park had at least 7 *Wilson's Snipe* and a *Virginia Rail*. An *Eastern Phoebe* continued at Deer Creek at Buckhorn Road. Migrant landbirds were not especially plentiful at Chatfield SP, although some returning breeding species were moving in. Some things were still sparse or not yet there. A late *Merlin* upstream of Kingfisher Bridge looked to be other than a Prairie. Some tallies from a long walk upstream of Kingfisher (JeffCo side) were a FOS *Western Wood-Pewee*, 6 *Least Flycatchers*, 1 *Dusky Flycatcher*, 2 *Warbling Vireos*, 96 *House Wrens*, 5 *Gray Catbirds*, 92 *Yellow Warblers* (vast majority were singing males), 14 *Yellow-breasted Chats*, and more. A *Plumbeous Vireo* was singing at the Plum Creek picnic area. After leaving Chatfield the trip scooped up a Big Month *Burrowing Owl *at Robert A. Easton Regional Park, and *American Dipper* (and nest) at Bear Creek at Morrison Park. David Suddjian Ken Caryl Valley 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAGj6RoqLeegekt5WMokQpEWi_MbQ%3DOB0dCUaDn8pkF9_LY-76w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
