Hi all Some may have viewed this weekend's weather as "gloomy" for birding. For us it turned out fabulous for birding--it started as cloudy, chilly, was misting throughout the morning and eventually the misting stopped, the temperatures warmed a bit and the cloud cover remained leaving us a very enjoyable day of birding.
We saw a total of 112 species, highlights being the following (full list further below): - Chimney Swift [11th Ave, Greeley] - Willow Flycatcher [Crow Valley campground, Briggsdale] -- this bird further IDed from our "empid" ID by a visiting empid enthusiast who joined our group for a bit - Black Tern [Stewart's Pond, La Salle] - Willet [Beebe Draw (Weld CR 42), La Salle] - Red-necked Phalarope (2) [1-Beebe Draw (Weld CR 42), La Salle; 1-Hwy 77/Weld CR 116 NE Playa, Briggsdale] - Virginia's Warbler [Lone Tree Creek at Weld CR 110, Nunn] - Plumbeous Vireo (2) [1-Lone Tree Creek at Weld CR 110, Nunn; 1-My yard, Nunn] - Forster's Tern (2) [1-Crom Lake, Pierce; 1-Weld CR 37/94 NE Gravel Pit] - Western Tanager [Cemetery Road, Nunn] - Black-headed Grosbeak [My yard, Nunn] - Hermit Thrush [Crow Valley campground, Briggsdale] - Chestnut-collared Longspur (8) [6-Weld CR 45 and 114, Nunn; 2-two miles north of intersection, Nunn] - Blue Grosbeak [Two miles north of intersection Weld CR 45 and 114, Nunn] - Brown Thrasher (2) [Crow Valley campground, Briggsdale] - White-faced Ibis (4) [Beebe Draw (Weld CR 42), La Salle] Birds not seen by us but reported by others at Crow Valley Campground, Briggsdale: Blackpoll Warbler (2); Yellow-breasted Chat; MacGillvray's Warbler; White-throated Sparrow; Veery and Cassin's Vireo Full list: Canada Goose Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard Blue-winged Teal Cinnamon Teal Northern Shoveler Green-winged Teal Redhead Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Ruddy Duck Ring-necked Pheasant Pied-billed Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Sora American Coot Black-necked Stilt American Avocet Killdeer Baird's Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Spotted Sandpiper Willet Lesser Yellowlegs Wilson's Phalarope Red-necked Phalarope Franklin's Gull Ring-billed Gull Forster's Tern Black Tern Double-crested Cormorant American White Pelican Great Blue Heron Great Egret Snowy Egret Black-crowned Night-Heron White-faced Ibis Osprey Bald Eagle Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Swainson's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Great Horned Owl Burrowing Owl Northern Flicker American Kestrel Western Wood-Pewee Willow Flycatcher Say's Phoebe Western Kingbird Eastern Kingbird Loggerhead Shrike Plumbeous Vireo Blue Jay Black-billed Magpie American Crow Common Raven Horned Lark Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow House Wren Marsh Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Swainson's Thrush Hermit Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher European Starling House Sparrow House Finch American Goldfinch Chestnut-collared Longspur Orange-crowned Warbler Virginia's Warbler Common Yellowthroat Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Wilson's Warbler Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee Chipping Sparrow Clay-colored Sparrow Brewer's Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Lark Sparrow Lark Bunting Grasshopper Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln's Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Western Tanager Black-headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird Western Meadowlark Yellow-headed Blackbird Common Grackle Great-tailed Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Bullock's Oriole Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn http://coloradobirder.club/ -- 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/519c0e9c-c730-4ccc-9990-c443926f05a5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
