Love your write-up of your big day! --Denise Gonzalez-Walker Broomfield, CO
On Saturday, May 13, 2017 at 6:38:13 PM UTC-6, Luke Pheneger wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > So today my mom and I decided to participate in the Global Big Day. > > Team Name:Gobbling Grosbeaks > > Starting off with Boulder Creek(East CU Campus) we only had one species of > note, a PLUMBEOUS VIREO was singing early in the morning at 5:55am. > > We incidentally went to Skunk Canyon only spending 10 minutes, but we were > able to see a flyover BAND TAILED PIGEON, and a MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLER. > > We quickly made our way to BARR LAKE(ADAMSCO), which might have been the > best possible idea since right at the entence bridge I was able to get nice > looks at TENNESEE WARBLER, and a RED EYED VIREO. Walking ahead lead me to > find a singing adult male NASHVILLE WARBLER, along with some COMMONG > YELLOWTHROATS, 2 more MACGILLIVRAY'S WARBLERS, 30 YELLOW WARBLERS and a > female ORCHARD ORIOLE. > > Still at BARR LAKE, we started focusing on flycatchers moving torward the > dead Aspens and Cottenwoods, we were able to see a single WESTERN WOOD > PEWEE, a LEAST FLYCATCHER, and 7 EASTERN KINGBIRDS which seem to have just > come in. WESTERN KINGBIRDS were everywhere aswell, I think I tallied a > total of about 40 WEKI's. > I was also able to get an amazing look at a late WHITE THROATED SPARROW > while walking ahead. > Looking over the water only lead us to find two notable species; a single > FORSTERS TERN and a couple of male WOOD DUCKS. > > Later at Waterton Canyon(JefCO) > We started off with a singing GRAY CATBIRD, and 3 singing YELLOW BREASTED > CHATS. Walking down into the canyon we found a BLACK CHINNED HUMMINGBID, > WILSON'S WARBLER, about a billion HOUSE WRENS(40),and a singing AMERICAN > REDSTART. > But the bird of the morning was at Wateron, and wasn't a Warbler....while > looking at a couple male BLACK HEADED GROSBEAKS we heard a song that > sounded a lot like a BALTIMORE ORIOLE, of course we doubted this but ater > looking for the bird for about 5 minutes we were able to get a decent but > clear look at it, and it was an obvious BAOR. > > The rest of the morning was pretty relaxed but in the heat of the day > after seeing only house wrens, Grackles, and a few Yellow Warblers at the > Greenlee Preserve(BOCO); a PALM WARBLER came out singing its trilling song > with a bang, and quickly hid back in a dense cottenwood. > At Walden Ponds we basically had Yellow Warblers and Killdeers for about > an hour straight but then like the Palm Warbler we had a suprise. > PHILLADELPHIA VIREO, pop right out of a flock of Yellow Warblers and > Warbling Vireos near one of the private ponds, also a male WESTERN TANANGER > was at the duck pond. > > At Union Reservoir(WECO) there wasn't much but 2 STILT SANDPIPERS a LEAST > SANDPIPER 1 FORSTERS TERN and a BLACK TERN flying around the res. > > End of the day species count: 142 > > Good Birding > Luke Pheneger > Longmont,Colorado > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/d3531115-1a43-41de-aaac-252a71be7637%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
