I was too tired to post last night, but just in case anyone's thinking about SE Colorado right now, I did a lengthy route yesterday: At Lamar CC Woods (Prowers Co) male and female Northern Cardinal, pretty quiet otherwise. At Lake Hasty Campground below John Martin dam (Bent Co) Eastern Bluebird and a single Western Kingbird. At Blue Lake (Kiowa Co side) White-faced Ibis and Willets, at Cheraw Lake (Otero Co) lots of Ibis and Black-necked Stilts along with Wilson's Phalaropes, a Snowy Plover and Snowy Egret. At Holbrook Res (Otero) over a hundred White-faced Ibis at the NW corner and one Forster's Tern cruising the reservoir. Rocky Ford SWA (Otero) had Loggerhead Shrike and Ring-necked Pheasant. All reservoirs were teeming with ducks and grebes. At 5:30 p.m. one of the livestock ponds west of Meredith was chock-full of Franklins Gulls, 22 American Avocet, 12 Black-necked Stilts, Wood Ducks, Northern Shovelers, Cinnamon and Blue-winged Teal and other ducks, and a Semipalmated Plover. This small pond was framed by White-crowned Sparrows, Common and Great-tailed Grackles, Red-winged and Yellow-headed Blackbirds, and Brown-headed Cowbirds. This high concentration on and around a very small body of water made me want to be a peregrine falcon.
As for shoreline Cheraw is good, Blue Lake has some, John Martin, Lake Hasty and Lake Henry were high but a bit of shoreline, and no shoreline at Meredith. My overall take on the day was that obviously spring has begun, but not fully "sprung". No warblers (except for numerous Yellow-rumped), no flycatchers (except for numerous Say's Phoebe and the Western Kingbird) and a moderate number of shorebird species although more were concentrated in areas that were too far away to scope. Dan Stringer Larkspur, 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/2443bcc3-d7a8-4a48-a031-81cdd5806cc1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
