Highlights from Wyoming Hereford Ranch (Laramie County, Wyo), Crow Valley Campground (Weld County, CO) and the trip home to Fort Collins from Crow Valley today (5/26/09):
Wyoming Hereford Ranch: A fair number of birds of good diversity, but nothing partularly unusual Swainson's Thrush (perhaps 10) Orchard Oriole (2) Black-headed Grosbeak (1m) Indigo Bunting (3) Lazuli Bunting (1) Dusky Flycatcher (1) American Redstart (1 subadult male) White-crowned Sparrow (1 mountain form) MacGillivray's Warbler (1m) Total of 61 species Crow Valley Campground and Briggsdale: Orange-crowned Warbler (1 singing male) Swainson's Thrush (15+) Black-headed Grosbeak (2) Rose-breasted Grosbeak (1m) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (1) Yellow-breasted Chat (1 singing in the southwest corner) *Alder Flycatcher (1) in the southwestern corner Least Flycatcher (1) in the southwestern corner Red-eyed Vireo (1) in the southwestern corner Orchard Oriole (at least 3) mostly near water features Gull sp. (1 large species noticed after it had already passed, moving north, probably Herring) Common Nighthawk (1) FOS *Magnolia Warbler (1m) south of main picnic shelter, moving east) MacGillivray's Warbler (1m) Total of 41 species (note the ratio of species between locales, both along Crow Creek, one with water, the other without) GR96 (aka "Murphy's Pasture"): Lots of prairie flowers Chestnut-collared Longspur (1m) McCown's Longspur (several) Brewer's Sparrow (few) Intersection of CR57 and CR100 (= just west of Norma's Grove (which was very unbirdy at 6pm): Loggerhead Shrike (I think they are nesting in the locust hedge) photographed two different species of grasshoppers freshly impaled on fence *Red-headed Woodpecker (1a) on power pole on CR57 just south of CR100, these are getting scarce on the northeastern plains near the foothills Crom Lake: Red-necked Phalarope (about 10) White-rumped Sandpiper (1) Dave Leatherman Fort Collins --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
