Purple Sandpiper update

[Glenn Walbek]

Several groups of birders looked for the Purple Sandpiper today between 7am and noon, without success.  Please post if you see it.  Great bird and story for the end of 2016.  Happy New Year!

Glenn Walbek

Castle Rock, CO

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[Heidi Eaton]

We got there shortly after noon, looked (great looks at a Snipe), had lunch, looked again, drove around the reservoir and looked one last time, but no luck. So we looked between noon and 4.

Heidi Eaton
Colorado Springs

[Ben Sampson]

Who knows where he could be. Maybe he'll turn up at Spiney Mountain Reservoir. Maybe Pueblo Reservoir. Perhaps Barr Lake. Cherry Creek Res would be fantastic! I was thinking that if the Bushong twins hadnt happened to go birding there in mid December know one would ever see it. Let's hope someone refinds it somewhere. 

Ben Sampson

Centennial, CO

[Aaron]

No purple sandpiper. 

I was at the spot from 7-8:15. 

Aaron Shipe

Lakewood 

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[Marty]

I was passing thru on Sat 31st around noon, and saw it, along with a snipe. Wasn't close enough to independently verify ID, tho by size & shape, location & another birder's judgement I'm sure it was the bird.

A crew of remote control plane enthusiasts had a table set up and were buzzing their little planes all around, but I couldn't detect any reaction from either bird. As we were driving away toward I-70 someone had parked in a pullout around the bend and was hiking down closer from there with his camera, way closer than we had gone from the 988(?) access. Hope he didn't get the last shot.

Marty Wolf

NW COS

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[Ben Sampson]

I think by now it is probably safe to say the Purple Sandpiper is no longer at Dillon Resivoir. Anyways, I was looking thru the ebird rarities. A Purple Sandpiper has been seen in British Columbia on the shore of Victoria. Given the Victoria bird was first reported Dec 31, it is impossible for them to be the same bird. Photos were taken by several birders. The bird looks almost identical to the Dillon res bird. This is the first BC record, as ours was the first CO record. Perhaps both birds are hatch year, perhaps from the same breeding population. For whatever reason, two individuals have appeared on the western side of North America. Perhaps more were present in the West, but not reported. Maybe we should all be on a look out anywhere we go this winter, as it may not be the last to venture out west this winter.