The flurry of good birds at Clement Park continued today, 12 May 2020. This morning while making a quick trip to Clement, I found a Field Sparrow just up the street from my house with a bunch of Chipping Sparrows and Yellow-rumped Warblers. I barely got off any photos and it was gone. I was unprepared for a rarity on my street! https://ebird.org/checklist/S68919290
After birding around Clement, which was not very exciting today, I was walking home and the Field Sparrow jumped up into a willow on the SW corner shoreline, showed nicely for a minute and I managed some photos. It flew into the neighborhood and was gone. Kathy Holland happened to be birding around and she also got a good look before it vanished. https://ebird.org/checklist/S68919273 Yesterday I found a Palm Warbler briefly on the SW corner of Johnson Rez, but it flew after 30 sec and I never relocated it. I also had found a male Wilson's Phalarope, which was very cooperative and put on a nice show for a while. The Wilson's continued last night and my daughter and one of my boys got to see it as well (not that they cared too much, but they wanted to see it, so I'll take it!). Yesterday I had an extremely good species diversity for the park. https://ebird.org/checklist/S68859286 This SW corner of the Rez also had a Northern Waterthrush on Friday. This corner of the park has had quite a good diversity of species over the last couple weeks. I continue to be surprised by what's lurking around this fairly unassuming park. https://ebird.org/checklist/S68594829 Good birding! Scott Somershoe Co-Author of *Birds of Tennessee: A New Annotated Checklist <http://www.amazon.com/Birds-Tennessee-New-Annotated-Checklist/dp/1507815751/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1453317221&sr=8-3>* -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAJmtx%2BVBhVX2NseGG8gze97sd5CawTi1DgNeegwg%2B5U-UcqBsg%40mail.gmail.com.
