[cobirds] Summer Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak Garfield Cty, +Spring Park migrants, Eagle Cty

Hi all,

 

Monday in the Roaring Fork Valley:

Bright, sunny early morning gave way to snow, hail and moderately heavy rain this afternoon, clearing by this evening.

Looks like quite a lot of fresh snow higher up, above 9,500 feet. Decidedly chilly “down here” !

 

Just as the rain set in, the Harris’s yard (rural Carbondale) briefly hosted a 1^st summer male Summer Tanager, and their neighbor, Jim, hosted a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak briefly too. Other arrivals included many more Black-chinned and Broad-tailed Hummingbirds, along with Western Tanagers, Black-headed Grosbeaks,  and Bullock’s Orioles.

 

Spring Park reservoir, Eagle County:

Common Loon (alt)

35 Red-necked Phalaropes this evening, in one tight mobile flock

24 Wilson’s Phalaropes this evening

3 Marbled Godwits

1 American Avocet

1 (Long-billed) Dowitcher - distant

20 Franklin’s Gull early morning, but most flew off NW, leaving 4 still this evening

 

Many thousands of Tree Swallows this evening

 

Good birding all

 

Dick Filby

Carbondale, CO