4-5pm this afternoon at Manitou Lake in Teller County found 14 new year birds for the lake; two of which were new lifetime Manitou Lake birds: Townsend's Solitaire and American Pipit! 33 species in all. This puts the total Manitou Lake species count for me in 23 years to 141 species. The campground host there described to me what sounded like a great egret or snowy egret that he might have seen earlier in the day. I have one sighting of the former on 5/10/2009 and 4 of the latter from 4/26 to 6/1 from 2000 to 2010.
Highlights were: Black-crowned Night-Heron (1) American Dipper carrying food to nest White-faced Ibis (2) New species for the year at Manitou Lake: blue-winged teal, black-crowned night-heron, white-faced ibis (2), sora, California gulls, northern rough-winged and barn swallows, townsend's solitaire, starlings, am pipit, vesper and white-crowned sparrows, common grackle. Complete list below. Jeff J Jones ( <mailto:jjo...@jonestc.com> jjo...@jonestc.com) Teller County - 8500' - Montane Woodlands FIRST SIGHTINGS: World: 0, Location: 2, Annual: 14, World Annual: 5 Species: 33 - Subspecies: 0 - Forms: 33 Total Records: 33 DUCKS, GEESE & SWANS - 7 Canada Goose Branta canadensis Gadwall Anas strepera Mallard Anas platyrhynchos Blue-winged Teal Anas discors Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata Green-winged Teal Anas crecca Common Merganser Mergus merganser HERONS, BITTERNS - 2 Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax IBISES, SPOONBILLS - 1 White-faced Ibis Plegadis chihi red legs and red face KITES, HAWKS & EAGLES - 1 Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis RAILS, CRAKES & COOTS - 2 Sora Porzana carolina American Coot Fulica americana SANDPIPERS, SNIPES - 1 Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata GULLS, TERNS & SKIMMERS - 1 California Gull Larus californicus KINGFISHERS - 1 Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon WOODPECKERS - 1 Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus CROWS, JAYS - 1 American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos SWALLOWS, MARTINS - 3 Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor Northern Rough-winged Swallow Stelgidopteryx serripennis Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica TITS, CHICKADEES - 1 Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus DIPPERS - 1 American Dipper Cinclus mexicanus carrying food to nest THRUSHES - 3 Mountain Bluebird Sialia currucoides Townsend's Solitaire Myadestes townsendi American Robin Turdus migratorius STARLINGS - 1 European Starling Sturnus vulgaris WAGTAILS, PIPITS - 1 American Pipit Anthus rubescens calling and landed at shore BUNTINGS, NEW WORLD SPARROWS & ALLIES - 3 Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys OROPENDOLAS, ORIOLES & BLACKBIRDS - 2 Red-winged Blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus Common Grackle Quiscalus quiscula male/female Birder's Diary - www.BirdersDiary.com - 4/18/2011 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
