We had a little more activity on the penultimate day of the fall season at
Chico Basin, though once again we had to deal with some suboptimal weather.
The morning started relatively busy before an steady south breeze slowed
things down and resulted in early closures for our most productive
Because one can walk out on the sand towards the water's edge, makes it very
easy for close viewing of the birds.
Just in the southeast section:
3 American Golden-Plovers, (at least one was a Jv.)
50+ Killdeer
2 Marbled Godwits
3 Jv. Sanderlings
20 Baird’s Sandpipers
3-4 Pectorial Sandpipers
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Today we got done in by wind (which wasn't even in the weather report).
We opened a few nets for 1 1/2 hours, banded 1 House Wren, 1 Hermit
Thrush, 2 Orange-crowned Warblers and 1 White-crowned Sparrow, and then
threw in the towel for the morning. Looking forward to better weather
Just a friendly reminder about shore access at Barr Lake: birders can only
access the shore *north* of the bird banding station. South of the banding
station is considered the "Wildlife Refuge" and you must stay on marked
trails. While they don't seem to enforce this much, I've confirmed with
CObirders,
This little bird was so cute! It was in a small flock of common bushtits,
ruby-crowned kinglets, and blue-gray gnatcatchers. Images are posted on the CFO
Facebook page.
Location: on edge of large prairie dog town accessed from County Line Rd. Park
at Flagg Ranch parking lot
We were rained out on Tuesday so today was our only day of banding at
Rogers Grove Park this week. It remains fairly quiet here, with just 6
birds banded for the day, and no recaptures. The Wilson's Warblers seem to
have moved on, replaced by some Yellow-rumped Warblers (though not in the
nets
Two of my favorite birds remained in Centennial, at least through today. A
Green-tailed Towhee has been in my yard for a week or so. A Common
Nighthawk, meanwhile, headed south over E. Panama Dr / Streets of
Southglenn near Arapahoe & University around dusk. It was low and seemed to
come from
Date: Thursday October 3rd, 2019
E-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Compiler: Gregg Goodrich gregggoodr...@gmail.com
Phone : 303-655-9135
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