Dixon Reservoir Revisited

[Judith Sanborn]

I set off with my scope, camera, binoculars and book pack with the intent of power walking around Dixon Reservoir twice as a training strategy to get in shape for City of Rocks. Mistake. I don't have the willpower to pass by a chance to check out the birds and once I started I was a goner. I did get around the Reservoir once, but it took almost 2 hours.

Once again the videos helped me identify birds. It wasn't until I studied them that I nailed the green-winged teal. A new life bird for me. I was clueless at the reservoir, but with three bird books and the video I finally figured it out.

That solitary shoveler at Dixon yesterday must have gotten his dates wrong. Today the Northern Shoveler day! Tons and tons of them.

Tomorrow I will go for a training walk somewhere relatively free of birds.

Todays birds: Redheads, lesser scaup, American coot, Canada goose and 2 goslings, northern shovelers, mallards, American Wigeons, meadowlark, black capped chickadee, robin, ring-billed gulls.

[Judith Sanborn]

I saw no birds except a lone robin - that is if you mean the stand of cottonwoods, etc. just north of the reservoir and south of the road. There was one chickadee in the trees to the east of the reservoir. Not even a magpie!

[Gary Lefko]

Anything showing up in Dixon Reservoir "Woods" yet? It's a warbler hotspot at times. Gary