Seven people set out on Thursday’s Nature Calgary trip to sloughs east of Calgary. The day was warm but mostly somewhat overcast limiting temperatures to the mid twenties.

After admiring a Cooper’s Hawk being mobbed by Eastern Kingbirds as we assembled at Carburn Park we went to Langdon and between Weed Lake and the northern end of the Langdon reservoir saw:

American Avocet
Black-necked Stilt
Eared Grebe
Red-winged Blackbird
Swainson’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Crow
California Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Franklin’s Gull
Ruddy Duck
Lesser Yellowlegs
Mallard
American Wigeon
Spotted Sandpiper
Killdeer
Forster’s Tern
Wilson’s Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope
Pectoral Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher
Savannah Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lesser Scaup
Northern Shoveler
Western Meadowlark
Marbled Godwit
American Robin
Brewer’s Blackbird
Common Grackle
Eastern Kingbird
Northern Pintail
Cinnamon Teal
Green-winged Teal
Redhead
Northern Harrier
Blue-winged Teal
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Barn Swallow
Black Tern
American Coot
Western Kingbird
Canvasback
Double-crested Cormorant
Marsh Wren
Common Goldeneye
Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrow
Wilson’s Snipe
Bufflehead
Ring-necked Duck
House Sparrow
European Starling
Rock Pigeon
Gadwall

We went on to the slough near Hwy 24 and added:

Baird’s Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Killdeer
Canada Goose
Sora

Then we went our to Nakama Lake to add:

Baird’s Sparrow
American White Pelican
Clay-colored Sparrow
Western Grebe
Pied-billed Grebe

Finally we stopped st the SW corner of Eagle Lake to round off the day with:

Great Blue Heron
Common Tern
Upland Sandpiper