[Douglbirds] Yard & pit

[Hugh Kingery]

In our yard Urling spotted our first Black-headed Grosbeak on Friday, May 4, and we saw it again this afternoon. Virginia's Warblers showed up on our hillside on Thursday, May 3. So the migrants have started to arrive, as Tom Halverstadt observed this afternoon. 

Our bluebird pairs -- two Western and one Mountain -- all have eggs (6,5,and 4). House Wrens have started commandeering other boxes, and the Tree Swallows don't seem to have started anything yet. 

We stopped at Walker Pit this afternoon at 1 p.m. Lots of variety, including, at the temporary wetlands on the south side of Walker road after it turns, one White-faced Ibis, 2 Greater Yellowlegs, and 2 Long-billed Dowitchers. They, along with some Mallards, Gadwalls, and Blue-winged Teal, flushed when a dog attached to the house that owns the wetlands, flushed them all.

The Pit itself had a surprising 14 Buffleheads and 2 Common Goldeneyes (seems sort of late for them), plus 3 Western Grebes and one Eared Grebe.

Hugh Kingery
Franktown, Colorado

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