Northeastern Colorado reservoirs today

[Steven Mlodinow]

Greetings all,
I had intended to start my day at jumbo at sunrise, but the fog delay that by a couple hours. Therefore I spent the first couple hours of the day landbirding nearby. The highlight of that effort or to Harris' Sparrows just west of Ovid in a shelter belt on the north side of the road.

Jumbo Highlights
Laughing Gull was present on the point that is near the county line, on the south side of the reservoir. This appeared to be the same bird that was at Jackson reservoir about a week ago. With it was a Sabine's Gull. There were no shorebirds, except for a couple of Killdeer. Though there were plenty of birds, there were no other highlights.

North Sterling reservoir highlights: a juvenile Little Gull was seen intermittently on the south side of the reservoir as was a Sabine's Gull. Again, there were no shorebirds ( except six Long-billed dowitchers) but large numbers of other birds such as grebes and pelicans.

Jackson reservoir highlights: 7 Sabine's Gulls paraded around the north side of the reservoir. There was also one Lesser black backed Gull, not the dark back gull of interest that has been seen recently. Several species of shorebirds occupied the northeast corner. The most interesting were Stilt Sandpipers.

Note that duckhunting season starts tomorrow, which may have a significant impact several locations noted.

Also, hundreds of McCowns and CC Longspurs were along Morgan County Road 4/Weld County Road 105 north of Jackson reservoir.

Good birding
Steven Mlodinow
Longmont Colorado

This post was dictated so misspellings and grammatical errors are to be expected

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