I birded Florence River Park yesterday morning and this afternoon. It is still 'the hotspot' for bird activity in eastern Fremont County (except Williamson's Sapsucker, will post on that tomorrow). I have talked with Rich Miller and he has had the same experience as I have in the past week and a half--few to no birds at the Canon City Riverwalk and other areas while Florence River Park has had lots of migratory action. Clearly all that leafminor infestation has made Florence River Park the fast food headquarters for many migrating birds, especially warblers. I haven't seen anymore of the tiny moths that emerge from these leaf nurseries for about 5 days but I suspect that some of the other insects that fed on them may still be around to be bird food themselves
Yesterday morning the Yellow-rumps were there in good numbers, at least 30-40, likely brought in by the cold front the night before--and very hungry, they were in a feeding frenzy in the cottonwoods where all the leafminor infestation had occurred. The numbers of Yellow-rumps was still pretty good today though they were spending more time in the willows and cattails of the marshy areas. Also today I found at least a dozen Wilson's Warblers and about a half dozen Orange-crowned--almost all were low in the marsh, Yesterday I spotted a Brown Thrasher, the first I have seen of this species in Florence River Park and a very uncommon bird in Fremont County. I had a possible Brown Thrasher in Holcim Wetland a few years ago. I also had a Sora Rail this week, getting a little late for them in this area. And today I had a latish Swainson's Thrush in Florence River Park I had a small flock of about a dozen White-throated Swifts fly over and feed for awhile east of Canon City today. Also today I heard Sandhill Cranes overhead both in Florence and in Canon City but we had low clouds so I didn't see any. SeEtta Moss Canon City Blogging for Birds and Blooms magazine @ http://birdsandbloomsblog.com/author/seetta-moss/ Personal blog @ BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com<http://birdsandnature.blogspot.com/> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
