Greetings All
Basically, all of Crow Valley that does not require crossing the river is open. It was moderately birdy today, but all usual stuff. North of the gate, there was a massive hatching of dragons and damsels. The main dragonflies were White-faced and Striped Meadowhawks and the main damsels were Lyre-tipped Spreadwings with a nice sprinkling of Emerald Spreadwings. It was truly a fabulous event. At one point, I was called from my odeacious attentions by the noises of angry kingbirds and grackles, looking up to see a sub-adult BROAD WINGED HAWK with very worn wings fly at and past me and then off to the north, escorted by an ever replenished source of attackers. There is no extensive open water, but a Double-crested Cormorant (my first for Crow Valley) flew overhead, a weird site. In the marshy bit at the far north there were GT Grackles and Wilson's Phalaropes breeding (or apparently so) among the more usual species. BYO Plaza is a wet meadow with little future potential for shorebirds, though pishing brought in 21 male W Phals, so they are nesting there in reasonable numbers Latham had a bunch of avocets, a few of both yellowlegs, some Wilson's Phals, and many, many Killdeer, It is drying up quickly though. A juv HOODED MERGANSER at Stewarts' Pond was rather unusual (the species is rare enough, but a youngster in June...) Good Birding Steve Mlodinow Longmont CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/14e42943e0a-26f7-2983c%40webprd-m49.mail.aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
