Very quiet today at Crow Valley Campground near Briggsdale (Weld) but many
changes since last week and always beautiful this time of year (except for the
fracking truck traffic noise). Wonder when the intersection at Highway 14 and
CR77 will warrant a signal light?
Highlights:
FOS Sandhill Crane (flyover of about 25)
FOS Northern Shrike (1i) in the northern outback
FOS Lapland Longspur (1 flyover)
Brown Creeper (1 or 2)
Brown Thrasher (by the waterhole northeast of Group Area)
Hairy Woodpecker (heard only, so don't know which race it was)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (few)
Townsend's Solitaire (few by the waterhole northeast of Group Area)
No sparrows except for a few juncos, Song Sparrows, and White-crowned Sparrows
No sapsuckers
No Black-throated Blue Warbler or Wood Thrush (like I conjured in my head on
the way out)
Lots of Redshank Grasshopper nymphs
Many buckthorn triozid adults (last week they were all nymphs)
Still a few butterflies around (Checkered White, Mourning Cloak, Variegated
Fritillary)
Underwing moth (Catocala sp.)
Striped Meadowhawks
Catface Spider
Undetermined sp. of black tiger moth caterpillars (which will overwinter as
larvae and be part of the fare of the earliest migrant Mountain Bluebirds on
the prairie next Feb-March)
Saw Northern Harrier catch a plump vole (Microtus sp.)
Total of 26 bird species (24 in the CG and 2 additional in Briggsdale)
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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