[cobirds] Boulder County, April 29th

Hello, Birders.

Some odds and ends from around Boulder County earlier today, Sunday, April 29th:

At Boulder Reservoir, in the 2pm hour, Bill Schmoker and Hannah and I re-found the female LONG-TAILED DUCK discovered earlier in the day by Christian Nunes. Nice bird for Boulder County, especially so in late April. Also present at Boulder Rez were two distant, vexing Calidris sandpipers. Too far away to be sure, but I thought they had a decent chance of being Sanderlings in prealternate molt; on the other hand, they seemed too small; on the other other hand, they WERE far away...

Butterflies, too, at Boulder Rez. For the hour-plus we were there, we observed a constant passage of painted ladies migrating west-northwest across the lake.

Earlier in the morning, in the southern stretches of the Teller Farms region, I found an UPLAND SANDPIPER in the low grass just a bit west of Teller Lake proper. (Not Teller Lake No. 5, i.e., the more famous of the Teller lakes.) Coordinates were 40.022686 N, 105.155159 W, but I'm not hugely hopeful for a repeat performance, as I went on to hear the bird give several flight calls, suggesting it was flying away. Random thought: Look for Upland Sandpipers in Boulder County this spring and summer!--Think back to all the "Midwestern" goodies in the county last summer: Red-headed Woodpeckers, Eastern Phoebes, Cassin's Sparrows, Eastern Warbling-Vireos, Dickcissels, and more.

Earlier still, along the Fowler Trail, near El Dorado Springs, Bob Zilly and I enjoyed a dawn chorus of numerous COMMON POORWILLS, a few WILD TURKEYS, and SPOTTED TOWHEES. At sunrise we found two BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS, a male and female, seemingly already paired.

One last observation from this morning: Numerous singing SAVANNAH SPARROWS for Bob and me at the City of Boulder Open Space headquarters off Cherryvale Road.

Ted Floyd
tedfloyd57@hotmail.com
Lafayette, Boulder County Colorado.

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