As Joe Roller already posted, I saw a male Piping Plover this morning in Phillips County, between county road 41 and the Holyoke airport. It was in a very shallow pool on a concrete slab, along with a Lesser Yellowlegs. By 10 A.M., both birds were gone.
Tuesday evening, a Semipalmated Plover was at the Haxtun sewage ponds. The NE pond was drained, with just a shallow pool of water near its eastern end. By noon today, that pool had dried up, and all the shorebirds were gone. The stream bed north of the Holyoke sewage ponds had two Black-necked Stilts today. Holyoke had two birds today that were previously reported by Steven Mlodinow: a Western Grebe at the fishing pond and a Red-bellied Woodpecker north of the town park. Both species are quite uncommon in the county. Land bird migrants were scarce, except for large numbers of Chipping and Clay-colored Sparrows, plus Yellow Warblers. The most unusual passerine migrants were: Gray Catbird (5), Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (1), Northern Waterthrush (1), and Lazuli Bunting (2). Roger Linfield Boulder -- 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.
