October 16, 2015
Around mid morning, I headed over to Washington Park (Denver County) to look for the Chestnut-sided Warbler reported yesterday. Talk about looking for a needle in a haystack, the park has hundreds of old tall cottonwoods. Finding a warbler that prefers to stay high in the trees appeared to a daunting task (if the bird was even still in the park).
I never found a warbler of any type. A pipit moving from spot to spot in the large open field section kept me running around for an hour. It never allowed close approaches. Identification was difficult. Once I was close; however a dog walker beat me to the pipit and it once again flew.
Finally, I did get close, observed the lightly streaked grayish back, and well defined grayish cheek of an American Pipit. Sprague's Pipits have whitish streaked backs and undefined cheeks giving the birds a blank look.
Afterward, I went to Barr Lake (Adams County). No warblers or vireos were around (12 mph winds not helping my birding).
I walk out to the northwest end of the peninsula at the banding station found a small flock of shorebirds. These included 22 Baird's Sandpipers, 2 Least Sandpipers and a Black-bellied Plover.
Scoping the lake added a Common Loon and 2 Greater White-fronted Geese to my day list.
A check along the DIA Owl Loop (Adams) found only one Burrowing Owl at the location along Gun Club Road at 1.6 miles south of 112th avenue. No Short-eared Owls appeared when I watched the fields along third creek until well after sunset.
Around mid morning, I headed over to Washington Park (Denver County) to look for the Chestnut-sided Warbler reported yesterday. Talk about looking for a needle in a haystack, the park has hundreds of old tall cottonwoods. Finding a warbler that prefers to stay high in the trees appeared to a daunting task (if the bird was even still in the park).
I never found a warbler of any type. A pipit moving from spot to spot in the large open field section kept me running around for an hour. It never allowed close approaches. Identification was difficult. Once I was close; however a dog walker beat me to the pipit and it once again flew.
Finally, I did get close, observed the lightly streaked grayish back, and well defined grayish cheek of an American Pipit. Sprague's Pipits have whitish streaked backs and undefined cheeks giving the birds a blank look.
Afterward, I went to Barr Lake (Adams County). No warblers or vireos were around (12 mph winds not helping my birding).
I walk out to the northwest end of the peninsula at the banding station found a small flock of shorebirds. These included 22 Baird's Sandpipers, 2 Least Sandpipers and a Black-bellied Plover.
Scoping the lake added a Common Loon and 2 Greater White-fronted Geese to my day list.
A check along the DIA Owl Loop (Adams) found only one Burrowing Owl at the location along Gun Club Road at 1.6 miles south of 112th avenue. No Short-eared Owls appeared when I watched the fields along third creek until well after sunset.
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