Birding bonanza at Chatfield; Douglas County

[Joey Kellner]

Several people birded below the dam at Chatfield Reservoir State Park and found:

2 Rusty Blackbirds

2 Swamp Sparrows

1 Winter Wren

1 PINE WARBLER

1 NORTHERN PARULA

 

eBird checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S76812571

 

ALL IN  THE SAME SPOT!  Coordinates/map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/39%C2%B033'46.9%22N+105%C2%B002'33.3%22W/@39.5626944,-105.0476267,16z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d39.5630332!4d-105.0425872

 

More quickly accessed from South Platte Park and walking under C-470 and over the Platte River foot/bicycle bridge…walk up the small effluent creek that empties into the Platte.

 

Joey.

 

Joey Kellner

Littleton, Colorado

 

[Gregg Goodrich]

Joey's Sooper Hotspot continues this morning! A MOB of around 15 birders refound all of Joey's great birds from yesterday. Ann and I also had a Dipper under the 470 bridge. Notice the much longer and upturned lower mandible of the Pine Warbler in the photos on my list. Bez B. said he noticed that on the Aurora Pine Warbler last year. Wonder if this is fairly common?

https://ebird.org/checklist/S76855996

Gregg Goodrich

Highlands Ranch