cool snake! Thanks for the update Dave. On Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at 9:56:40 PM UTC-6, Dave Leatherman wrote: > > This is mostly a note about the condition of Crow Valley Campground. I > was told this area has had two hail storms in the last 10 days, the most > recent being day before yesterday. The sum of these storms has knocked a > lot of leaves off trees, put Russian-olive fruits on the ground, shredded > leaves, caused local flash flooding that has the ground vegetation > flattened and leaning the same direction, filled little pools in Crow Creek > and killed a lot of insects. Today the place felt like a place in shock. > Everything was quiet except for a barking dog in one of the campsites and > the blower the host seemed compelled to use to clean off sidewalks nobody > ever walks on near the outhouse and donation post. > > > I think the loss of insects (elm leaf beetle larvae on elms, dragonflies, > flies, wasps, for ex.) will affect migrating birds that visit the area. My > guess is they won't stay as long. > > > Birding today was so-so, not great. I had at least 4 Olive-sided > Flycatchers, several Western Wood-Pewees, 1 Orchard Oriole, 1 Bullock's > Oriole, 1 Gray Catbird, 2 Brown Thrashers, at least 3 families of House > Wrens, at least 5 Common Nighthawks, a few Yellow Warblers and an eastern > race Hairy Woodpecker. I also had 2 Loggerhead Shrike fledglings picking > at a dead Horned Lark on the ground wedged into willow stems in the creek > bed out north. Total of 30 species. I had no vireos, no empids, no > thrushes, no migrant warblers. > > > Coolest thing was a rather large (2 feet long) Western Hognose Snake doing > all his tricks to look ominous but that allowed itself to be picked up > without struggle. I moved him a short distance out of the road to a pile > of boards in the antique farm machinery area. > > > > > > > 15 miles or so to the north at A&B #1 Res on CR124 a few miles w of CR77 > were 2 Marbled Godwits, 4 Least Sandpipers, two Solitary Sandpipers, 1 > Spotted Sandpiper, a few avocets, several yellowlegs of both species. > > > Dave Leatherman > > Fort Collins >
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