While in the midst of preparing the banding station for operation in a week, I had time to wander around a bit along the south shore. An adult mostly breeding plumage Dunlin was in the SE bay at the end of the dam along with several Bairds Sandpipers, a Spotted and about 60 Killdeer feeding in a loose group. Many hundreds of Pelican's were scattered over the lake along with a group of about 1000 Cormorants in the middle. Small groups of Bairds were scattered along along the south shore as well as a couple of Stilt Sandpiper, a Semipalmated Plover, and a Least. In the SW cove, the typical group of pelicans and gulls resided mostly California and some Ring-billed and a handful of Franklins. A larger Franklins flock was out over the NW cove, and several hundred Western Grebes were spread over the western half of the Reservoir. No serious count attempted. Several highlights along the trail from the visitor center to the banding station include a calling Eastern Screech Owl in a cottonwood between the visitor center and the trailhead when I first arrived. An immature Yellow-bellied Sapsucker put on quite a show trying to figure out how to forage on Cottonwood bark. Most songbirds were the usual residents that have been there all summer including many pewees, chickadees, kingbirds galore (eastern and western), house wrens, WB Nuthatches and many yellow warbler families. Nice to be clearing net lanes with gangs of Chickadees and Yellow Warblers all around and the vireo singing overhead.
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