Good day all! Had a fun little Daddy/daughter picnic at Crow Valley today. There was as much playing around, climbing trees and bug collecting as there was birding just as it should be. We were there from about 11-1. There were a few highlights:
Townsend's Warbler-2 American Redstart-2 males Orange-crowned Warbler-1 Common Yellowthroat-1m, 1f Yellow-rumped Warbler-handful Wilson's Warblers-everywhere Yellow-bellied Sapsucker-1 female. Completely white throat and red present only on top of head and crazy barring on the back. Reminded me of growing up in PA. Hanging out in the Russian Olives right near the first parking area. Introduced specie or not, I am always astounded in the fall seeing the amount of different birds that utilize this tree for food. Sage Thrasher-1 Townsend's Solitaire-several Western Tanager-2 Cedar Waxwings-100's all over the campground of all ages Merlin-Prairie type. Seems way early... No Vireos that I got my eyes on. No empids. All pewees were silent. Headed to the pond at CR 124 west of 75. Still a good amount of Greater Yellowlegs as well as one Lesser. Two Semi-palmated Plovers, several Baird's Sandpipers, one Pectoral Sandpiper were new for the year for me. At least one Stilt and a maybe a dozen semi-palmated/westerns that I did not take the time to properly ID. Bird is the word y'all! Josh Bruening 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/f9e4d7e0-0c62-4669-80e5-2dc2d022a1a0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
