Greetings All
Sorry for the ever infrequent posting. I think my ever increasing interest in bugs has sucked up much of my free time. Wednesday, Weld County, Crow Valley I arrived at dawn to birds moving thru the trees in a wave. This spectacular activity last about 90 minutes, and thereafter, the birding was much slower, though still the best I've had yet this fall. As has been the trend, the birds were heavily western, so no Golden-winged or Blackburnian Warblers, yet no Hermit Warblers or Varied Thrushes either. Highlights included ad male Black-throated Green x Townsend's Warbler. Photos are at https://flickr.com/36088296@N08 Ongoing Eastern Phoebe. In sw corner of campground x 1 week or so. My first for Weld. 15 or so Towsend's Warblers and 8 MacGillivray's 6 or so Dusky Flys, a "Western" Fly, 2 Hammond's Flys, a Willow and a Least. No Grays, tail dipping duty must have gone to the phoebe Also about 10 unidentified Empids and ~15 pewees. A bad day to be a fly at Crow Valley "Eastern" Warblers consisted of a Tennessee and 2 N Waterthrush Other birds of potential "interest" included 2 Cassin's Kingbirds and a Baltimore Oriole Unfortunately, I basically had to head home after an uneventful stop at the ever-curious Eaton Cemetery Windsor Res remains very low and with many gulls, tho they are scattered about and many would be hard to see Thursday, Morgan County, Jackson SP and Playas Jackson State Park was sloooowwwwww, even though the wind was low for the first couple hours. A Nashville Warbler was the only bird of interest; it was at the Visitor Center The lake had a nice smattering for Franklin's Gulls, and the water level is dropping. I suspect the nw corner will be good for shorebirds relatively soon. The Playas nicely outlined by Chris Rurik a few days ago on these pages were again birdy, with 16 species of shorebirds, but naught more interesting than Pectoral. There were multiple Peregrines and several N Harriers. Eventually, eventually migration will start, right? So far, that morning at Crow was the first to feel like a real "hit" of migrants Good Birding Steve Mlodinow -- 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/14f9881588a-2d9b-16a7f%40webprd-m55.mail.aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
