Norma's Grove west of Weld CR57 on Weld CR100 was pretty quiet but did have a
Cassin's Kingbird.
At the intersection of Murphy's Pasture Road (GR96) and CR69 is a windmill with
a cattle tank full of water. This has always been a bird-attracting area and a
great place to study sparrows. In the general area of this intersection today
were two Rock Wrens, several Savannah Sparrows, a Grasshopper Sparrow, several
Chestnut-collared Longspurs (including lots of young birds that would be tough
to get onto and ID without knowing the flight call), two late Lark Buntings,
plus Brewer's, Clay-colored, Chipping, Vesper, and Gambel's race White-crowned
Sparrows.
Crow Valley Campground, like Norma's Grove, was not crawling with birds but a
long visit produced 42 species including Cassin's Kingbird, a late Western
Kingbird, a late Townsend's Warbler, two Swainson's Thrushes, two latish
Western Tanagers, a couple empids I did not see well enough to positively ID
but believe one of them was a Cordilleran. The latter bird was in a juniper in
the sw corner and had a very large caterpillar in its beak in very bad
lighting. When I jack the exposure on the photos well enough to see anything,
it is clear the bird has a big teardrop eyering, yellow underparts, and a long
primary projection. No sapsuckers or White-throated Sparrows, which surprised
me. A few Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, a late singing Tibicen dealbatus (dog-day
cicada), several Wilson's Warblers, one Orange-crown, one Sage Thrasher, heard
a flyover McCown's Longspur (maybe two), several migrating freshly-emerged
Monarchs, and two late Common Nighthawks.
Crom Lake, which now has high water, had over 20 phalaropes, including several
Red-necked.
Barn Swallows persist at all the above locations.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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