Man! You called this one right, Bryan... :-)
The night flight over Lafayette, eastern Boulder County, has been heavy indeed the past 75 minutes (0145-0300, Sunday morning, Aug. 23). All sorts of stuff up there (UPLAND SANDPIPER RIGHT NOW!! WOOHOO!!)...warblers, sparrows, tanager/grosbeak calls, oriole/meadowlark calls, Lark Buntings, Wilson's Warblers, even a Barn Owl. Just a brilliant night. If you're up, go outside an listen. This flight shaping up to be one for the ages.
Ted Floyd
Lafayette, eastern Boulder County, Colorado
P.s. While I have y'all's attention, I'll mention that Ish Reservoir, northern Boulder County, has decent, but not great, mudflats. Hannah Floyd and Andrew Floyd and Jesse Bowen and I stopped off there yesterday evening, Saturday, Aug. 22, on our way back from Laramie County, Wyoming. (BARN OWL AGAIN.) We saw a Stilt Sandpiper, a Townsend's Warbler (in the west side willows), and two oddities: an early Herring Gull and a Peale's (or Peale's-like) Peregrine Falcon. Up in Wyoming, the Wyoming Hereford Ranch, Laramie County, was brilliant, as usual, with the headliner being a Pine Warbler.
Ted Floyd
Lafayette, Boulder County