Michael Keissig and I birded Jackson Lake State Park in Morgan County today from 7:30-4:30. Species count for the long day was 74, it was very active in the a.m. with overcast skies and temps in the 50's till about 9 when it began to heat up. Major flocks of Audubon's Yellow-rumped Warblers were in the west side campground area with a few Wilson's Warblers and three female Lazuli Buntings. We observed a Philadelphia Vireo from about twenty feet away. We didn't see short tail or dark lores, what we saw was fairly bright yellow across the throat and breast, white above eye was well-defined, white below the eye was almost as prominent as above, short bill.
Tromping every dry and not-dry mud flat in all parts of the reservoir, sandpipers were Least, Semipalmated, Baird's, Stilt, Pectoral. We saw three Semipalmated Plovers, two Black-bellied Plovers, two American Golden-Plovers. A couple Black Terns, a Marbled Godwit, a few Long-billed Dowitchers, American Avocets, one Snowy and two Great Egrets (no Reddish Egret), and a few Clark's Grebes amongst the Westerns, On the north end walking fairly far east from the parking area, after I had thoroughly scoped (four times) a shallow sand-surrounded cove with many shorebirds, Michael found a Buff-breasted Sandpiper. Dan Stringer Larkspur, 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/312a4bd0-744f-4f13-b7fb-de786556e481o%40googlegroups.com.
