I came down here yesterday (6/2). It was a hot, windy trip, with my only stops
being Last Chance and Tempel's Grove. They have finally had some measurable
rain events in SECO (first since last July!) but the prairie, as Drummond,
Leukering, and others have reported, is VERY dry.
Last Chance (Washington), species still migrating to someplace else:
White-crowned Sparrow (1a, mountain)
Lincoln's Sparrow (1)
Wilson's Warbler (1a male)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (1f)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (1f Audubon's)
Traill's Flycatcher (silent, possibly Alder, OK photographs)
Western Wood-Pewee (could breed locally, could be on the move)
Total of 24 spp.
Tempel's Grove (Bent):
Willow Flycatcher (1 very pale individual, presumably "eastern", at first had
me thinking Acadian but primary extension moderate, not XL)
Least Flycatcher (1)
Broad-tailed Hummingbird (1m, heard only)
Swainson's Thrush (1)
Lamar (Prowers) area on 6/3 (did not go to LCC, LHS and other spots yet):
Willow Valley neighborhood:
White-winged Dove (few)
Black-chinned Hummingbird (1m, 1f, probably nesting locally as they have for
the past few years)
Broad-tailed Hummingbird (2m, 1f - migrants? If they nested locally, that
would be a first.)
European Starling (individual that took over hole excavated in White Poplar by
Red-bellied Woodpecker doing a near-perfect red-belly imitation)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (1 at Willow Creek Park)
Northern Cardinal (1m in mulberry, fruit mostly green with a few tinged pink)
Fairmount Cemetery:
Red-breasted Nuthatch (1)
Hermit Thrush (1, late)
American Redstart (1 first-spring m)
Bullock's Oriole (1 nest in an elm that appears to be almost 100% red bailing
twine)
Riverside Cemetery:
nothing of note
Thurston Reservoir (water level high):
Clark's Grebe (1 pair)
Great-tailed Grackle (few)
most of the trees on the east side along the ditch road have been removed
during "improvement work" by ditch company
Kiowa CR C about a mile east of US287:
Long-billed Curlew (pair of adults with two fledglings and a few more adults
further out in the pasture south of CR C, good photos)
Grasshopper and Cassin's Sparrows in appropriate habitat, ditto for Dickcissels
and good alfalfa stands (on the verge of being mowed). A few Mississippi Kites
over town but not nearly as many as most summers.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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