I birded Windsor Lake for 3 hours plus today, mostly hiding behind a pole near the swim beach to escape the wind watching and photographing gulls and terns and eventually did a lap. Once comfortably numb it wasn't too bad. Amazing disappearance of the big merganser flock. Still 150 or so western grebes plus one Clark's. 35 Bonaparte's gulls tripped the ebird filter for some reason. Two Caspian terns worked the shoreline but never landed that I could see. At least 4 Forster's terns tried to fish and then avoid the bully gulls. Did not see the diversity or numbers of shorebirds I sort of expected. A few Wilson's phalaropes, a couple willets, a couple avocets, one killdeer, that's it. Hundreds of swallows on the lake, almost all cliff and barn. Heard my FOY clay-colored sparrow amid the houses on the south side. No Yucatan vireo. Enjoyed watching a northern rough-winged swallow gather bits of dry grass for nest liner and make runs back and forth to its burrow in a ditch bank northeast of the reservoir. 52 species total plus an unidentified accipiter, probably a Cooper's. eBird checklist link below:
https://ebird.org/checklist/S108776014 Dave Leatherman Fort Collins -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/ --- 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/CY4PR0601MB3763ED9B70C5BE809DCFD27DC1C09%40CY4PR0601MB3763.namprd06.prod.outlook.com.
