Greetings All,
Today Larry Arnold, David Dowell and I started at Beecher Island, Yuma Co, and ventured north to Holyoke, Phillips, and then east to end our day in Haxtun Egads, what an amazing event, and again it is so late that I can't really fully relate events. BEECHER ISLAND was waterless upstream, but across the road from the parking lot there was a goodly stretch of water and the woods had shrubs with berries in addition to olive-laden Russian Olives. Birds were everywhere, though not so much warblers as woodpeckers, orioles, bluebirds, etc. Highlights: BLUE-HEADED VIREO Northern Waterthrush 7 Baltimore Orioles 34 Red-headed Woodpeckers 5 Red-bellied Woodpeckers 1 Field Sparrow 2 Great Crested Flycatchers 12 White-breasted Nuthatch (eastern flavor) STALKER POND, WRAY. Each splotch of Russian Olives on the water's edge had its own flock of birds. We missed more than we saw, most likely, and we saw a bunch. Highlights: EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE (ad and juv; calling) MOURNING WARBLER (imm female) TENNESSEE WARBLER 2 Field Sparrows Red-eyed Vireo Laz x Indigo Bunting Lesser Goldfinch WRAY FISH HATCHERY. The line of trees along the road was hopping and popping with warblers. Highlights: PINE WARBLER (plumage most closely matches Sibley's ad female, but imm male might well be similar Red-bellied Woodpecker HOLYOKE CEMETERY. It is hard to describe how birdy this is. We drove up to find 120+ Killdeer on the lawn. The alfalfa field behind the cemetery had 150 or so kingbirds, hundreds of spizella, 15+ Dickcissel, a CC Longspur, and who knows what else. The trees were also hopping, and sometimes the lawns, with birds coming down to feed on the moist grass. Highlights: PINE WARBLER (Same plumage as Wray bird) Baltimore Oriole Lesser Goldfinch 7+ Townsend's Warblers (we had a couple at pretty much every stop today) HOLYOKE: Area at end of Akron Street at N. end of town, same spot where Protho Warbler was this spring. Highlights: Cassin's Vireo Bell's Vireo 4 Mississippi Kites HAXTUN: The town park was rather birdy, stuff moving in and out. Highlights: Cassin's Vireo PLUMBEOUS VIREO Eastern Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Note, we had about 10 Olive-sided Flycatchers total today, about 5 Least Flycatchers, 10 Willow Flycatchers, 15 Townsend's Warblers, MacG Warbler at 3 locations, Western Tan at 2, 4 BH Grosbeaks at Beecher Island... Really an amazing mix of birds. Best Wishes and Good Cheer Steven Mlodinow Longmont CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
