Prewitt Reservoir Shorebird Report

[Nicholas Komar]

Today, I led one of the CFO shorebird workshops, with destinations including Prewitt Reservoir and North Sterling Reservoir. The south end of Prewitt continues to attract hordes of hungry shorebirds (we counted 18 species of shorebird there). Continuing rarities included a couple of juvenile Short-billed Dowitcher and a juv Ruddy Turnstone. Other workshop highlights included hearing calls believed to be from a migrating American Golden-Plover below the dam at Prewitt and witnessing a Merlin hunt, kill and eat a Baird’s Sandpiper at North Sterling Reservoir. Also good views of juvenile Sabine’s Gull and Common Tern at Prewitt Reservoir and Mississippi Kites over Columbine Park in Sterling we’re appreciated by all.

Nick Komar
Fort Collins