This morning I visited the Chestnut-collared Longspur location mentioned by Bill (and the visitor from Alabama) and saw 5. Thanks Bill!
Despite searching the Pawnee Grasslands a bit, I also did not find any Mountain Plover. Kevin Keirn Fort Collins, CO On Sunday, April 5, 2015 at 7:44:49 PM UTC-6, William Kaempfer wrote: > > Tina Jones and I went out on the NE plains today for grassland and water > birds. Ponds are full of dabbling ducks, but diving ducks were harder to > find. To start the day we had a FOS Swainson’s Hawk at Ireland Reservoir > between Hudson and Keansburg. We continued on to Andrick SWA and Jackson > Reservoir; the former was full of ducks with a heavy dose of American White > Pelicans plus 3 or 4 Bonaparte’s Gulls. Three Northern Harriers were > “messing around” in the area, too. Jackson was not very active other than > Ring-billed Gulls and Western Grebes, but there was a small group of 9 Snow > Geese way out on the water. > > > > We headed north from Jackson, and made a snap decision to try for > longspurs noting that Briggsdale is about as close to Jackson Res. as it is > to anything else! On the way we had another Swainson’s in Weld, just > beyond the NW corner of Morgan County. At Murphy’s Pasture we had a > smattering of McCown’s Longspurs, and then we accidentally flushed a group > of about 15 along the road being observed by a visitor from Alabama. He > accepted our apology with such grace that he pointed up on to a spot where > he had seen Chestnut-collareds as well. We backtracked to WCR 86 just west > of WCR 105 where we found said birds. (Unlike Mark Miller’s trip to > Washington County we could not add a Mountain Plover.) > > > > Then we turned for home via the Loloff/Latham area. Loloff’s resident > Black-necked Stilts were present at the north end while the playa on the > south side of WCR 48 at Lower Latham not only had another stilt flying > around, it had three Lesser Yellowlegs joining a couple of Greaters plus > four Baird’s Sandpipers. > > > > 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/09b7b02d-6788-4d69-bf01-25eb9513bc28%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
