Washington County Plovers and Longspurs

[JBreitsch - Denver]

Date:  1 April 2015

Time:  08:00 - 09:00 am

After reading about the incredible number of Mountain Plover sightings in the past week or two, I decided that instead of sleeping for work tonight, I'd go out and get me one or two.  So as not to be a total leach, I decided to make myself useful and check out Washington county, since I hadn't seen reports from there yet.  

I visited the known and well documented spot at KK Rd and CR 20.   Along KK, between CR 20 and CR 19, I had the following:

Mountain Plovers - 2

McCown's Longspurs - At least 3-5

Chestnut-collared Longspurs - At least 6

There were far many more longspurs than those I reported.  I am using these numbers since these are the only once I can prove weren't the same birds over and over.  The actual count seemed to be in the dozens.  The only other bird that was somewhat out of the ordinary was a lingering Rough-legged Hawk just south of CR 20 on Rd EE.

John Breitsch

Denver, Colorado

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