Gwen Moore and I headed out in late morning for a visit to Jackson Reservoir and State Park (Morgan). We matched Hugh Kingery's FOS American Tree Sparrow with one at Andrick SWA just SW of Jackson. In the park we had not too much around the visitor center, but the next bit of thicket (by the red barn where guns were blazing) was really hopping. Best here was a flock of Cedar Waxwings mixed with lots of robins, yellow-rumps, juncos, white-crowned and song sparrows. Also present were two Mountain Chickadees, a Spotted Towhee and a half dozen Wild Turkeys. Going all the way to the end of the road, we had a 6-foot bull snake and a FOS Northern Shrike.
The reservoir itself seems to have lots of Ruddy Ducks and Western Grebes, the usual gulls and a few other ducks, but when we got all the way to the north end SWA parking lot, we had one Greater Yellowlegs plus a definitive Pacific Loon way out on the water. Needless to say that when we circled back to the park HQ, the loon was (and had always been) more than halfway across the reservoir toward the north side. We set off for home via Lower Latham and Stewart's Pond. The former had both yellowlegs and a single American Avocet, the latter was shore to shore duck with about 100 Canvasback in the 2,000 plus birds. Bill Kaempfer Boulder -- 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/F90B1155A81D474890D22EEFFFA7CAE51C1DB152F7%40EXC4.ad.colorado.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
