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
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