Bobolink, Lake Estes, Larimer County, 5/22

[Jim Nelson]

Continuing our visit to the Estes Park area in Larimer County, I birded again in the late afternoon at Lake Estes. Not much around, but I had a great surprise when I came upon a beautiful male Bobolink in the Matthews-Reeser Bird Sanctuary area at the lake. I checked eBird and found Bobolink were observed two times in May 2012 at Lake Estes and once in May and once in early June at Lake Estes in 2011. All the 2013 sightings appear to be out on the eastern plains. A new Colorado bird for me.


Jim Nelson
Bethesda, Maryland