I got to the campground around 11am and stayed until 2:30pm. 90 degrees and felt hotter. Probably some things present early had flown on by the time I arrived. Water in Crow Creek pretty much dried up along the south side, with stagnant stretches and pools recently pounded by cows along the west and northwest corner. Things were birdy with the following highlights:
Townsend's Warbler (at least 5) - mostly in Siberian Elms presumably taking advantage of adult Elm Leaf Beetles Plumbeous Vireo (4) - also mostly in elms, the items I could figure out were Rough Stinkbugs. One had extensive white in the outer tail feathers, making it strongly resemble a White-winged Junco when viewed from behind in flight. Cassin's Vireo (only 1) EASTERN PHOEBE (1) - in southwest corner over pool of water left in the creek EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE (1) - responded to eastern imitation, pale, extensive yellow in lower mandible, bright white throat and wingbars, in the tree crowns along the west side apart from other pewees. I think Steve M. or somebody reported this bird previously. Cassin's Kingbird (at least 2) - northwest corner over the cattle pond by the big Russian-olive (flycatching repeatedly over the pond for something honey bee sized but I could never confirm the prey) Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1) - my FOS at low elevation on the plains Dark-eyed Junco (1 pink-sided) - my FOS at low elevation Townsend's Solitaire (3, including one in spotted juvenile plumage) - FOS at low elevation Western Tanager (2) - in Russian-olives Green-tailed Towhee (2) Hammond's Flycatcher (at least 1, maybe 2) - FOS at low elevation Hermit Thrush (5) - in Russian-olives Swainson's Thrush (3) - one was eating Russian-olives Wilson's Warbler (many) MacGillivray's Warbler (1m, 2f) Yellow-rumped Warbler (2) - only the third and fourth I've seen on plains this fall so far no sapsuckers no eastern warblers very few empids Total of 41 species (including the town of Briggsdale) *Still a fair number of common shorebirds on A &B #1 on Weld CR124 about 2 miles w of CR77 (the main mission today was to get leeches (observed being eaten the other day by yellowlegs) but nobody was home to ask for permission to sample -drat). *Crom Lake on Weld CR31 w of 90 is full to the brim and only had Canada Geese Dave Leatherman Fort Collins -- 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/SNT148-W492FED1167AB83F33D97F8C1520%40phx.gbl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.