Fruitgrowers Reservoir (aka Harts Basin) is a great place to add species to the year list in mid-Apr! I went yesterday to view heronry (which is no longer active - 73 empty nests). I wasn't chasing Dave Galinat's Little Blue Heron really. Best news was that I found a new heronry just downstream from Hwy 65 bridge over Gunnison Riv. with 25 nests. Also ran into Dick Filby leading a bird tour. FOS birds have asterisk on eBird list. Besides gulls at Fruitgrowers, I saw a large flock of mostly Franklin's over Walmart parking lot in Delta. This is probably the most gulls I have ever seen in one day in western CO since moving here!
At home later in the evening I saw 2 Peregrine Falcons in an all-out aerial duel - best show of the day! Fruitgrowers Reservoir, Delta, US-CO Apr 18, 2013 2:25 PM - 3:20 PM Protocol: Traveling 3.0 mile(s) 31 species (+1 other taxa) Snow Goose 16 seen well from North Rd across causeway with spotting scope. Dick Filby and field trip participants also saw them. Canada Goose 42 Mallard 65 Cinnamon Teal 11* Northern Shoveler 14 Green-winged Teal 43 Redhead 4 Ring-necked Duck 2 Bufflehead 2 Common Loon 1* Pied-billed Grebe 2 Eared Grebe 2* Western Grebe 134 Great Blue Heron 1 Osprey 1* Northern Harrier 1 American Coot 11 Sandhill Crane 9 Black-necked Stilt 2* American Avocet 2* Willet (Western) 2* Wilson's Phalarope 2* Franklin's Gull 7* Ring-billed Gull 27* California Gull 1* Belted Kingfisher 2 Common Raven 2 Tree Swallow 15 Barn Swallow 1* swallow sp. 1 Red-winged Blackbird 3 Western Meadowlark 2 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13800954 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) -- Jason Beason Paonia - Delta 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
