Hello, Birders. Maggie Boswell, Bill Maynard, Bryan Patrick, Nathan Pieplow, Bill Schmoker, and I birded the Fox Ranch, Yuma County, yesterday morning, Saturday, Aug. 22nd. Pretty much all the action was concentrated in a very birdy 1,000-foot swath of sunflowers and willows along the north "shore" of the Arickaree "River"--extending from the CR-U bridge eastward (down"stream"). Especially during the 7am hour, we were kept quite busy by all the birds in there, among them 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoos, 2 Great Crested Flycatchers, 4 American Redstarts, and 3 Dickcissels. And an oriolefest: 20 Orchards, 7 Baltimores, 3 Bullock's, and 5 "Bullimores." Plus these: 5 Red-headed Woodpeckers, 1 Olive-sided Flycatcher, 1 Least Flycatcher, 1 Dusky Flycatcher, 5 unidentified empids, 4 Eastern Warbling Vireos, 1 Eastern White-breasted Nuthatch, 2 Brown Thrashers, 2 Eastern Bluebirds, 3 Wilson's Warblers, 2 Clay-colored Sparrows, 4 Cassin's Sparrows, 3 Grasshoppper Sparrows, 60+ Lark Buntings, 5 Blue Grosbeaks, and 1 "Lazigo" Bunting. It was wild to see everything from Great Crested Flycatcher to Eastern Warbling Vireo to Cassin's Sparrow all jockeying for perches in the same patch of sunflowers. This area was nice at dawn, too. From the the CR-U bridge, the tally included 2 Wild Turkeys, 4 Eastern Screech-Owls, 1 Common Poorwill, a bunch of Common Nighthawks, 3 flyover Upland Sandpipers, 2 Eastern Bluebirds, sparrows (Clay-colored, Chipping, Lark) descending from nocturnal migration, and a few presumed Pheucticus grosbeaks also descending from nocturnal migration. Elsewhere on the ranch, things were rather slow: another Eastern Screech-Owl and another Common Poorwill up by the field station, a Chimney Swift, at least 12 more Red-headed Woodpeckers, a Northern Mockingbird, another Dickcissel, a few more Blue Grosbeaks and Orchard Orioles, and a delectable plenitude of Eurasian Collared-Doves. Thanks to Ranch Manager Nathan Andrews and Project Manager William Burnidge for permisson to visit this always-birdy site. Please note the Fox Ranch is private and that birding access is available only via specially arranged tours and bird surveys. Also, many thanks to The Nature Conservancy in Colorado for essential stewardship of the Fox Ranch and many other amazing birding hot spots throughout Colorado. -------------------------------
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