Mo BoCo SnoGo

[Ted Floyd]

Hey, all. An update. Andrew Floyd and I saw more snow geese after my posting from earlier today--additional flocks of at least 286, 75, 95, and 244 overflying Greenlee Preserve, so another 700. I think that number will increase when or if I commit to the eyestrain of counting up all the birds in the videos. Anyhow, the goose passage over Greenlee Preserve this afternoon was definitely one of the most dramatic VisMig episodes I've ever witnessed here in blessèd Boulder County. The flight got underway once the skies cleared this afternoon, and it was still going on within the past half hour, as I heard another flock whilst sitting in the car in the parking lot of the King Soopers parking lot (La Croix emergency) in Lafayette well after sundown. Winds were out of the northeast this afternoon, and I'm guessing that had something to do with it. But I'm not a real Bryan Guarente, I just play one on COBirds.

Otherwise, the whole of the Greenlee/Waneka/Hecla ecological complex, eastern Boulder County, was decidedly birdy this unsettled fall-back Sunday. 54 species, a field goal more than...never mind. In addition to the previously mentioned snow geese, Ross goose, and cackling geese: wood duck, bufflehead, hooded merganser, killdeer, Wilson snipe, mountain chickadee, bushtit, red-breasted nuthatch, brown creeper, ruby-crowned kinglet, and Audubon warbler.

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County