Shorebirdy day at Chatfield and Hine Lake

[David Suddjian]

Cold and breezy and wet! But It was a fun shorebird day, aided by the weather. I observed 19 species of shorebirds at Chatfield SP and at Hine Lake in Robert A. Easton Regional Park, JeffCo. Both locations seemed to have birds coming and going during the light rain, and then going or staying when the rain lifted out. The full list of shorebirds is below. Also lots of teal today, with 338 Blue-winged leading the way from my checklists.

4 Black-necked Stilt 
19 American Avocet 
5 Semipalmated Plover 

8 Killdeer 
1 Whimbrel 
9 Marbled Godwit - west of Kingfisher
1 Sanderling - Hine Lake
30 Least Sandpiper 
1 Pectoral Sandpiper west of Kingfisher
11 Semipalmated Sandpiper 
2 Western Sandpiper - Chatfield Marina Sandspit and Hine L
14 peep sp. 
7 Long-billed Dowitcher 
1 Wilson's Snipe 
36 Wilson's Phalarope 
12 Spotted Sandpiper 
1 Solitary Sandpiper - Marina Sandspit
17 Greater Yellowlegs 
55 Willet - west of Kingfisher and Marina Sandspit
16 Lesser Yellowlegs

A female Chestnut-sided Warbler was at Robert A. Easton. 

David Suddjian

Ken Caryl Valley

Littleton, CO