Hello, Birders. Nick Komar and I saw some nice birds up at Timnath Reservoir, barely in Larimer County, earlier today, Saturday, August 14th. First things first. As I was getting onto I-25, I saw an excellent fireball high in the northeastern sky. I'd guess magnitude minus-six, maybe brighter than that. Timnath, meanwhile, was as good as advertised. Some of the stuff we found there: * 2 Wood Ducks * hundreds of teal * Northern Pintail, 2 Lesser Scaup, and lots of Ruddy Ducks * an incomprehensibly vast multitude of Double-crested Cormorants * at least 10 Great Egrets and at least 145 Snowy Egrets; also a few Black-crowned Night-Herons * a few ibises * a pair of Bald Eagles * a beautiful Peregrine Falcon, probably a male * a Virginia Rail scampering across the Weld-Larimer line * 13 shorebird species, including Willet and Stilt Sandpiper * an adult Caspian Tern * 1 Loggerhead Shrike * 2 Marsh Wrens * a little flock of 6 Lark Buntings * 1 Indigo Bunting * 1 or 2 Bobolinks flying over * some Great-tailed Grackles, probably residents Timnath is a great place, with decent access and fine habitat. A poor-man's Prewitt, if you will. Except that, this year, it's looking to be just about the shorebird habitat in northeastern Colorado. If folks are out there looking, I suspect the place will turn up more goodies in the weeks ahead. ------------------------------- Ted Floyd Editor, Birding Follow Birding magazine on Twitter: http://twitter.com/BirdingMagazine -------------------------------
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