Thank you for the update on Prewitt, Dave! Along with the Buff-breasted at Jackson, this makes three Buff-breasted so far! Add in Pablo Quezada's Ruddy Turnstone at Jackson and the Short-billed Dowitcher found by Luke Pheneger, the Bushongs, and David Dowell at Prewitt, it looks like it will be a great shorebird season, just as this spring was a great warbler season! Who knows what might show up?
Ben Sampson, Boulder, CO On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 10:06:19 AM UTC-6 Dave Leatherman wrote: > Met some friends (Nina Routh, Norm Lewis, Mike Serruto and Gary Potter) at > Prewitt Res yesterday. We all drove separately, wore masks when > appropriate, imaginary hugs and high fives. For me, it was good to get out > of the cemetery. Ha. > > *HIGHLIGHTS* were shorebirds along the west side mudflats, numbers > significantly diminished from recent days Norm tells me: > > BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER (2, together, only rarely closer than 6 feet > apart) at least 100 yards from the water's edge on drying upper "beach" > > > > Black-bellied Plover (1) in beautiful breeding plumage > Pectoral Sandpiper (1) > Long-billed Curlew (3) > Assorted common peep > A dowitcher we could *not* turn into a Short-billed > Black Terns (few) > No jaegers that we saw > > In the trees along the outlet canal and below the dam we had many migrants > typical of early autumn, mostly common things like Yellow and Wilson's > Warblers, along with one Townsend's Warbler, one MacGillivray's Warbler, > Red-headed Woodpecker, family of Eastern Bluebirds (tell me what you think > the mystery bird is (that I didn't see until looking at the photos last > night) flying below the juvenile bluebird, see below), Rock Wren, flyover > Pine Siskin, lots of empids in the olives including Willow and Gray (Norm, > Mike and Gary), no doubt some goodies we missed. > > > Along US6 and the entry roads into Prewitt were an amazing number of > Eastern Kingbirds (at least 25), with good numbers of Westerns mixed in. > > If you go out there to check the shorebirds, wear mud boots but don't go > too close to the water's edge as the black, anaerobic mud has designs on > capturing you for posterity. Thinking "half cup full", if you had food and > water on you, the water level is dropping fast enough you might escape > after 3-4 days. > > Dave Leatherman > Fort Collins > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/4aefa85e-0600-493a-8287-b4569e3a299bn%40googlegroups.com.
