La Plata County Today

[Steven Mlodinow]

Greetings All

I spent the day bopping around La Plata. It is still early spring as for landbird migrants: swallows, sapsuckers, kinglets, a couple of Yellow-rumpeds, a few Lincoln's Sparrows, etc. No Hermit Thrushes, Fox Sparrows, Mountain WC Sparrows or the like

However, methinks the recent weather system did something to the waterbirds

Vallecito Reservoir was a treasure trove:

4 WHITE-WINGED SCOTERS (all female types)

2 COMMON LOONS (breeding plumage)

1 RB MERGANSER (first one in eBird for the county, anyway; nice male)

4 BARROW'S GOLDENEYE (2 pairs)

51 Franklin's Gulls, > 300 RN Ducks, etc. 

Pastorius Res had nothing rare

Zink Pond had 3 late Lesser Canada Geese, 2 G WF Geese, and 1 BN STILT

Good Birding

Steve Mlodinow