This morning, I woke up early and headed over to Crow Valley Campground. When I got there I was greeted with a sign that said, " Road Closed. No Camping or Walk-ins". My mood changed when I read a post from John Shenot that he found a Golden-winged Warbler in Butterfly Woods. I thought my chances were slim since almost two hours had passed since the sighting. As I got out of the car, I ran into John who gave me directions to the area. Thanks to John for finding this great bird! It didn't take long before hearing the bird's secondary call over the roaring river. A few minutes later I got great looks at this beautiful bird! Before leaving, we(Loch Kilpatrick and Glen Walbek) were able to locate the female Black-throated Gray Warbler and a Northern Waterthrush. Before the downpour I tried my luck at Lee Martinez Park. I only got 10 minutes before the downpour but got 2 Broad-winged Hawks in the woods and 2 flyover Sandhill Cranes. Photos of the Golden-winged and Black-throated Gray can be seen below: http://jaeger29.smugmug.com/BIRDS/RARE-AND-UNCOMMON-2015/i-5RPgKTH Before going home I decided to bird a sunny Welchester Tree Park. The park was extremely birdy with the highlight being a Blue-headed Vireo. Migrants seen were: 10 Western Tanagers 1 Western Wood Peewe 3 Dusky Flycatchers 2 Least Flycatchers 1 Blue-headed Vireo 3 Plumbeous Vireo 2 Warbling Vireo 1 Macgillvray's Warbler 1 Blue-winged Warbler 3 Wilson's Warbler 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Audubon's warbler 5 Yellow Warbler 1 Black-headed Grosbeak 2 Clay-colored Sparrow 2 Lazuli Bunting
Mark ChavezLakewood-Green Mtnhttp://jaeger29.smugmug.com/ -- 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/888895669.17481102.1432430053245.JavaMail.zimbra%40comcast.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
