[cobirds] Park County Reservoirs 10/25
Today's Denver Field Ornithologists' trip to some of Park County's reservoirs enjoyed nice results under mostly cloudy skies with light to moderate winds. Most of the smaller bodies of water we visited and Tarryall Reservoir had few birds, but Lake George was moderately birdy and Eleven Mile Reservoir and Spinney Mountain Reservoir had lots to look at. Highlights at Eleven Mile Reservoir included: a continuing female *Black Scoter* just north of Howbert Point, 4 female type *Surf Scoters* in the northern third of the reservoir (all near the northeast shoreline), 10-11 *Common Loons*, a first of season *Common Goldeneye*, 5 *Canvasback*, 5 southbound *Sandhill Cranes*, 2 *Horned Grebes*, 1 *Northern Harrier*, 7 lingering *Am. White Pelicans*, 1 (2?) *Bald Eagles* and a nice assortment of other ducks. Highlights at Spinney Reservoir included 1 *Red-throated Loon*, at least 2 *Common Loons*, 7 *Am. White Pelicans*, 1-2 *Northern Harriers*, 2 *Horned Grebes*, and 2 straggling *Mountain Bluebirds*. 2 *Rough-legged Hawks* were along CR 59 near the crossing of the Middle Fork of the South Platte, near Hartsel. David Suddjian Ken Caryl Valley Littleton, 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 post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAGj6Rop9BZJjkxs6ZH93G%2BT5v5m4MYUUD4LcPWub%3DwbRo87bDQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[cobirds] Park County Reservoirs
Cobirders : Another great day in Park County : highlights : Antero : Red-necked Grebe ( photos ) -north shore , Pacific Loon 1 , Common Loon ( 2 ), Merlin Spinney : Pacific Loon 1 , Common Loon 3 Eleven Mile :Common Loon 4 , Pacific Loon 1 , Surf Scoter 4 immatures/female type , pair at Howbert Point and a pair at Sucker's Cove. John Drummond Monument -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
[cobirds] Park County Reservoirs 10/31/10
Folks, My father and I birded the South Park reservoirs today in absolutely perfect weather. It was warm and calm and the waters were like sheets of glass. Highlights: *Antero Res* White-winged Scoter - 2 Ad M near the dam Common Loon - 4 Pacific Loon - 1 Surf Scoter - 2 (1 M, 1 F) Sandhill Crane - 20 LOTS of ducks *Spinney Mtn Res *Bald Eagle - 1 Ad Prairie Falcon - 1 Ad Tundra Swan - 5 in the North corner Hundreds of ducks Thousands of coots *Elevenmile Res *Common Loon - 2 Surf Scoter - 3 Couple hundred *aechmophorus* grebes ~50 Eared Grebes Good birding, -- Daniel Maynard Manitou Springs, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
[cobirds] Park County Reservoirs . 10/28
Co birders : Seems we should have gone to Pueblo reservoir today . No scoters , no murrelets at the three locations . Lapland Longspur and 6 Common Loons at Elevenmile Res , 1 Common Loon at Spinney Mtn Res and 2 adult white swans ( probably ) Tundra at Antero . Swans refused to wake up and walk or swim around so ID very difficult ( visible from south boat launching area ). Antero had approx 7/8 ths open water , others completely free . Waterfowl numbers middling except for an abundance of coots. Spotting scope essential at these locations. John Drummond Monument -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
[cobirds] Park County Reservoirs -ducks and eagles
Hello all, With the warmer tempatures of late, I decided to check out the Park County reservoirs today. Common theme--ducks and eagles. I started at Antero Reservoir which is 80% iced over and the anglers have switched over to ice fishing. Right under the dam is the only open water. 20+ Common Goldeneyes 20+ Buffleheads 1 Common Merganser 3 American White Pelicans 2 Bald Eagles (ice fishing) 10+ American Coots Driving east on Hwy 24, just west of Hartsel, 2 Golden Eagles 1 Bald Eagle Next stop was Spinney Revervoir which is about 20% iced over where I counted 23 Bald Eagles 'ice fishing' and another 3 catching thermals over the mountain range just west of the reservoir. On the water: 30+ Common Goldeneyes 20+ Buffleheads 3 California Gulls Ended up at Eleven Mile Reservoir which is about 40% iced over, mostly on the west end. From Howbert Point: 20+ American Wigeons 30+ Lesser Scaups 20+ Common Goldeneyes 30+ Buffleheads 1 Common Loon 5 California Gulls Good Birding, Bryan Patrick Woodland Park, CO -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en
[cobirds] Park County Reservoirs today
Co birders : Eleven Mile SP held an immature Surf Scoter this morning ( eastern end ) , Spinney Mtn SP not much and Antero SP adult Sabine Gull , 1 st cycle Thayer's Gull , jaeger sp. Never got a good enough look for positive ID on the jaeger and could not refind as it disappeared in a northerly direction despite 2 hours looking. Otherwise lots of Coots , Western Grebes but no Loons. John Drummond Monument --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] Park County reservoirs
COBirders, Brad Steger, Alexander Steger and I headed up to check out Antero, Spinney Mountain and Eleven Mile reservoirs today, 10/16/09. Although we found no loons or scoters we did find a couple of other nice species. At Antero there were of course more American Coots than one would really ever care to count. There were also a number of ducks, especially in the northwest corner. Four species of gull, Ring-billed, California, Herring and a single Bonaparte's. The highlights though from Antero were the shorebirds, 3 Black-bellied Plovers near the southwest corner along with 20ish Long-billed Dowitchers. In the northeast corner there was a rather late and I believe rather rare record for Park county, Marbled Godwit. While looking at the Black-bellied Plovers we had a flyover, calling Chestnut-collared Longspur. On our way to Spinney Mountain reservoir we had a Burrowing Owl fly across the road in front of us. Seems a little late for up there. Spinney has a lot of shorebird habitat but we could only find a handful of Killdeer and Baird's Sandpipers. The water level is still fairly high and most of the birds were in the far northwest corner of the reservoir basically too far away to do much with. There were many Mountain Bluebirds and American Pipits near the entrance to the park. We spent very little time at Eleven Mile and we only saw expected species. We did see 3 Prairie Falcons at different locations between the three reservoirs but little else. A quick stop at Lake George and we were able to turn up a Swamp Sparrow at the south end. I am not sure what it is about this area but Swamp Sparrows seem to like it as there seems to be at least one found there every fall. - Mark Peterson Colorado Springs --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
