Brush Hollow birding 11-1-05

Today I birded some at Brush Hollow Reservoir which is located about 12 miles northeast of Canon City, near the little town of Penrose. This small lake is a irrigation reservoir that undergoes signficant changes in water level as water is moved to member irrigators.

Today the water was quite low leaving good muddy banks so I hoped to find a late migrating shorebird. But the only shorebirds there were Killdeer, a common species here, such as the one in the photo on this post.

The reservoir also hosted several Ring-necked Gulls, a few teal ducks, and 2 dark-headed geese (though likely Canada Geese, they were too far to rule out the recently split Cackling Goose species). However, the upland area which is a State Wildlife area produced a Loggerhead Shrike, a species not frequently seen in Fremont County. And the area did produce a nice sunset as shown.
SeEtta