Monday, May 9, 2011

Cherry Creek Reservoir Mudflats

May 2, 2011

Richard Stevens:

I returned to the mudflats off the bird observation platform, Prairie Loop at Cherry Creek Reservoir (Arapahoe County). The mix of shorebirds changed about every 15 minutes.

The final count was:
Whimbrel
Marbled Godwit (19)
Willet (41)
Semipalmated Plover (3)
Baird's Sandpipers (8)
Semipalmated Sandpipers (21)
Western Sandpipers (3)
Least Sandpipers (2)
Wilson's Phalaropes (51 in two flocks)
Red necked Phalarope (1, in larger of two flocks of WIPH)
Blue winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Green winged Teal
Virginia Rail
Bonaparte's Gull
Franklin's Gulls
No Dowitchers

I could not find the Neotropic Cormorant at the southwest corner of anywhere else for that matter.

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