All:
A loop through my neighborhood and surrounding areas: Alexx and
Michael's Pond, Trails Park South \ West Lake, Trails Park North, Rock
Point \ Stone Circle, Plaster Reservoir, Legacy High School area, Quail
Park and Pond, a short section in Westminster, and back to Alexx and
Michael's Pond.
Here is what I observed:
Pied Billed Grebe - 1
Western Grebe - 5
American White Pelican - about 25 total
Double Crested Cormorant - about 12
Black Crowned Night Heron - 1 in breeding plumage
Snowy Egret - about 4
Great Blue Heron - 6
Canada Goose - a few
Mallard - lots; the rain brought them out - sitting on front lawns,
walking down sidewalks and hanging out on streets. Funny to see.
Gadwall - a few
Northern Shoveler - about 6
Blue-Winged Teal - about 4 - males and females
Cinnamon Teal - a pair
Red Tailed Hawk - several nesting pairs. One flying with a red winged
blackbird riding on its back for a few seconds. A great trick if you can
pull it off!
American Coot - only 1
American Avocet - a few
Common Pigeon - lots
Eurasian Collared Dove - lots, paired off
Mourning Dove - a couple dozen
Northern Flicker - several
Downy Woodpecker - 2 pairs
An Empid Flycatcher species - 1 - I did not get a good look
Say's Phoebe - several. One was "skylarking" over a park.
Loggerhead Shrike - 1- a surprise to see. Behind Legacy High School along
the bike path.
Blue Jay - everywhere, lots
American Crow - a few
Barn Swallow - in good numbers
Cliff Swallow - hundreds at Plaster Reservoir
Black Capped Chickadee - a few
Bushtit - a few
Brown Creeper - 1 - another surprise. Trails Park North where the sidewalk
ends near 136th Street. Foraging in a line of cottonwood trees.
American Robin - lots; foraging and singing.
European Starling - lots
Cedar Waxwing - 5 - a family group that has been hanging near Plaster
Reservoir.
Myrtle Warbler - a few; singing and foraging.
Audubon's Warbler - a few; Songs and foraging.
Yellow Warbler - about 12 or so. They came in a few days ago.
Common Yellowthroat - about 12. Broomfield is yellowthroat "rich". Look
in cattail areas, ditches, marshes. Singing. All males.
Chipping Sparrow - small flocks moving through. Lawns and weed patches.
Clay Colored Sparrow - several small foraging groups.
Lark Sparrow - small groups traveling with chipping sparrows.
House Sparrow - a few
Song Sparrow - quite a few. Most actively singing. Marshes and cattails.
ROSE BREASTED GROSBEAK - 1 male singing from on top of a tall maple tree
near Grove Way and Frontier Ave. Watched for a few minutes, then it flew
off to the east.
Red Winged Blackbird - Tons. Males and females both conspicuous. Fights,
aggression towards other birds. One male was pummeling a male cowbird.
Other males getting into serious fights, tumbling on the ground. Here's
something I've never seen before - a male "dancing" on the ground with
bright red shoulder patches spread, going round and round the female, until
copulation was achieved.
Common Grackle - lots; carrying nesting materials, chases, grabbing
insects.
Brown Headed Cowbird - numbers of males and females increasing. Male
displaying to female.
House Finch - large numbers throughout neighborhoods. Lots of singing
males.
American Goldfinch - a few, most at feeders
Plaster Reservoir is the "Hot Spot".
The five "W's" - "We Won't Walk Will We?"
My feet hurt.
John T (Tumasonis), Broomfield CO
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