The DFO Spring Count trip today to Chatfield Reservoir State Park concluded after 13.5 hours and 109 (+1 empid sp?).
Nothing rare. The only "eastern" bird was a white-striped race of White-throated Sparrow. I believe this is the first time a White-throated Sparrow has been found on a spring or fall bird count at Chatfield. A number of migrants are not "in" as yet. The trees still do not have any leaves. A few cottonwoods have "catkins" though. Joey Kellner Littleton, CO Chatfield SP, Jefferson, US-CO May 11, 2013 5:52 AM - 7:22 PM Protocol: Traveling 44.2 mile(s) Comments: DFO Spring Count - Chatfield Reservoir State Park 38.7 miles by car 5.5 miles by foot Weather: 47-64F, sunny and calm in AM, partly cloudy with a brief afternoon thunder"sprinkle" Leader: Joey Kellner Observers: Burke Angstman, Joey Angstman, Doug Cleveland, Jill Holden, Vince Kloster, Charlie Lawrence, Randy Lentz, Bob Righter, Padmani Stone Also seen: Woodhouse's Toad - several calling (Plum Creek delta) Yellow-bellied Racer - seen and logged in H.E.R.P. Database (Upstream Kingfisher Bridge on East side) Chorus Frog - West of Kingfisher Bridge on both sides of the main park road Northern Leopard Frog - 1 heard at handicapped "new" heron overlook Western Painted Turtles - ~17 109 species (+1 other taxa) Canada Goose 28 Wood Duck 5 Gadwall 138 American Wigeon 1 Mallard 21 Blue-winged Teal 9 Cinnamon Teal 2 Northern Shoveler 13 Green-winged Teal 2 Redhead 1 Common Merganser 10 Common Loon 1 Full breeding plumage Pied-billed Grebe 2 Eared Grebe 10 Western Grebe 267 Clark's Grebe 1 Double-crested Cormorant 14 American White Pelican 15 Great Blue Heron 6 Snowy Egret 1 Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 5 Osprey 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk 2 Swainson's Hawk 7 Red-tailed Hawk 4 Virginia Rail 1 American Coot 86 Killdeer 4 American Avocet 5 Spotted Sandpiper 12 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Greater Yellowlegs 1 Willet (Western) 3 Lesser Yellowlegs 3 Semipalmated Sandpiper 1 Least Sandpiper 2 Wilson's Phalarope 14 Ring-billed Gull 4 California Gull 1 Rock Pigeon 5 Eurasian Collared-Dove 2 Mourning Dove 12 Black-chinned Hummingbird 2 Broad-tailed Hummingbird 6 Belted Kingfisher 3 Downy Woodpecker 5 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) 11 American Kestrel 6 Peregrine Falcon 1 Least Flycatcher 5 Empidonax sp. 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Say's Phoebe 5 Eastern Kingbird 1 Loggerhead Shrike 2 Plumbeous Vireo 1 Blue Jay 8 Black-billed Magpie 27 American Crow 2 Common Raven 4 Horned Lark 3 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 3 Tree Swallow 60 Violet-green Swallow 17 Bank Swallow 3 Barn Swallow 3 Cliff Swallow 21 Black-capped Chickadee 16 White-breasted Nuthatch (Interior West) 3 Rock Wren 1 House Wren 52 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Mountain Bluebird 2 Townsend's Solitaire 1 Swainson's Thrush 3 Hermit Thrush 3 American Robin 26 Gray Catbird 2 European Starling 6 Orange-crowned Warbler 4 Virginia's Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 1 Yellow Warbler 8 Yellow-rumped Warbler 128 Wilson's Warbler 1 Yellow-breasted Chat 3 Green-tailed Towhee 4 Spotted Towhee 15 Chipping Sparrow 22 Vesper Sparrow 3 Lark Sparrow 9 Song Sparrow 8 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 1 White-striped race White-crowned Sparrow 8 Black-headed Grosbeak 4 Indigo Bunting 1 Red-winged Blackbird 55 Western Meadowlark 14 Brewer's Blackbird 1 Common Grackle 4 Brown-headed Cowbird 10 Bullock's Oriole 3 House Finch 3 Lesser Goldfinch 1 American Goldfinch 7 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S14079168 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) -- 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.
