This morning Eileen Cunningham, Kevin Pape, Dave Price and I birded Horsethief Canyon SWA. At the same location that Hank Schoch found the Least Sandpipers on Jan. 3, 2018, we saw a flock of American Pipits (25) on a gravel bar. As we watched the pipits through our scopes we soon discovered 4 *Least Sandpipers* (small sandpipers with yellowish legs) as well as 4 Killdeer on the same gravel bar. On another gravel bar not far away we discovered some Wilson's Snipe feeding along the edge of the gravel bar -- 4 to start with, then 6, 8, no 9.....wait, there were 14 snipe in all. We counted them several times to make sure.
Later on in the morning at the west end of the property we found a first year brown Northern Shrike. Personally I haven't seen many brown first year birds, normally the ones I see are gray first winter birds. Location for Least Sandpipers: >From the parking lot entrance at Horsethief Canyon SWA, go west along the main road to the next road going north (small corrals where you turn right or north). Go to the parking lot at the end of this road. From the parking lot, walk north to the Colorado River and check the gravel bars in this area. Mike Henwood Grand Junction Mesa County -- 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/CAL4VesoJq3bQdnycoxxA40M5rnd%3DG%3DanC%3Dpts6sF7kjd-jfQVQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
