Savannah Sparrow
On my way to work I made several stops. Driving by the osprey nest on Namaqua Road the 2 Osprey was still there and appears they are attempting to nest right next to the road. At Lake Loveland I found 23 Franklin's Gulls and 5 Tree Swallows. There were lots of gulls at Horseshoe, but couldn't find anything of interest.
I then met up with Cade Cropper at Timnath Reservoir. After scanning the SW end we then went over to the NE side. On the way we saw a male Yellow-headed Blackbird. From the NE we found lots of good birds. From this location we saw about 80 Franklin's Gulls and a single Bonaparte's Gull (160). We then heard a Ring-necked Pheasant call and watched 6 American White Pelicans circling around. There were hundreds of Double-crested Cormorants in the trees and on their nests. We then started to see swallows flying around. Most of what I identified was Tree Swallows. I then saw a couple Barn Swallows (161) flying around with them and then finally we saw a single Cliff Swallow (162) flying around also. According to ebird this is the earliest Cliff Swallow seen in Larimer County by about a week. All in all we saw 37 species at the lake and still missed several birds that have around all week.
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