I thought I'd follow up on my earlier post about the jaeger (more on him/her in
minute) with a summary of our outing. I had my monthly museum group out at Barr
Lake today, and it was a quite productive day. We started by harrassing the
inimitable Meredith McB at the banding station, where she re
After Alec Hopping's report I headed out to Barr Lake this morning and had
a nice time. The vast majority of the water is frozen but openings remain.
The number of birds around sunrise was amazing, but gull and geese numbers
dropped drastically as the day warmed up.
A small ice hole near the boat
My fall has been busy and I have not had much time to bird here in CO, so
loved being outside on such a glorious fall day today.
Nothing REALLY spectacular, except for some impressive numbers for November.
Over 500 American White Pelicans are still staging at Barr. An estimated
1200 Double Cr
I enjoyed a lovely few hours in the sun today at Barr Lake. Birds of note
included 1 Cordilleran Flycatcher, 1 Gray FC, and two slightly early
migrant Nashville Warblers (the NAWA are on the boat ramp side of the
park in the ditch). There were also MANY Yellow Warblers around (mostly
females/
Beautiful day at Barr lake today, and plenty of bird action. Tens of
thousands of Canada/Cackling Geese were the star, with small numbers
of Snow Geese mixed in. There was one flyover of 20 Snow Geese,
otherwise, all were mixed in in ones and twos with the white-cheeked.
We were able to single ou
Two Great Horned Owls sitting on nests, within a few hundred yards of
each other.
A third Great Horned nest, but with the bird barely visible through
trees.
A Bald Eagle sitting on a nest; also four other Balds
A Canada Goose sitting on a nest she's built immediately under the
Gazebo boardwalk
Many
Not the busiest day today, bird-wise, at Barr, but some highlights:
Fervent nest-building actvity by a great many Great Blue Herons and DC
Cormorants
Two gorgeous breeding-plumage Horned Grebes
8 Wood Ducks, incl 3 pairs and 2 bachelors
Possible Lesser Black-backed Gull
A very active pair of Kestr
- A very large flock of White-Faced Ibis, maybe 200 birds. We were
unable to single out any Glossy Ibis in the crowd.
- Several (6 or 7) Swainson's Hawks
- Green-Tailed and Spotted Towhees
- One Bald Eagle Parent and one Eaglet on the nest
- Tree Swallows
- One Pink-Sided Junco (LOY?)
- American
Hello all,
Joe Roller provided some details on birds at Barr Lake today, but I
thought I'd add a few more tidbits. The Board of Directors of CFO had
it's quarterly meeting today and a few of us (myself, Joe, Bill
Schmoker, and Maggie Boswell walked along portions of the lake from
the Natu
