All - Today Charlie Lawrence, Chris Owens, Dick Schottler, Joey Kellner and I headed out east for a day of chilly birding.
Joey already posted the highlights from Last Chance (below). We spent several hours birding Jackson, braving the gooey mud to take in the continued shorebird festival and searching for passerines in the state park campgrounds. If I counted correctly, we had 14 species of shorebirds: 22 American Golden-Plovers 1 Black-bellied Plover 2 Sanderlings 10 Pectoral Sandpipers a handful of lingering Stilt Sandpipers a few Semipalmated Sandpipers and Wilson's Phalaropes amongst the American Avocets, Least & Baird's Sandpipers, Long-billed Dowitchers, Killdeer, Lesser & Greater Yellowlegs The campground hosted good numbers of birds; however the species variety wasn't terribly notable with large numbers of American Robins and Yellow-rumped Warblers. We did manage to locate one Townsend's Warbler and one Wilson's warbler in with all the Yellow-rumps. We also found two White-throated Sparrows. We had NO vireos. One final note: We also had approximately Sandhill Cranes pass over Jackson. Good birding. Kathy Mihm Dunning Denver ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "vir...@comcast.net" <vir...@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:29:42 -0600 Subject: [cobirds] Friday morning at Last Chance, Washington County To: Cobirds <Cobirds@googlegroups.com> This morning's highlights at Last Chance were: Swamp Sparrow, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, male Black-throated Blue Warbler. Lingering Sora, Brown Thrasher, three Lincoln's Sparrows and Hermit Thrushes. Gone are the Wilson's Warblers. Joey Kellner Littleton, Colorado -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
