On Saturday, September 15, 2012 8:27:06 PM UTC-6, Bill Kaempfer wrote: > > Birding east from Sterling this morning, I was in Haxtun by 7:30; but I > think it was too early for insects to have warmed up, so I “buggered off”. > Even the sewage ponds were uninteresting. > > > > Frenchman’s Creek was good. On the west side right by the parking area > there was a big active flock of spizellas—four species including Field > Sparrow. I went on down to Lake Linfield on the Yuma-Phillips county line > which does have a pool on the Yuma side (that thing must be pretty darn > deep when it is up over the road!). There wasn’t much of note there but I > had a Cooper’s Hawk and a Merlin driving down on CR 29. > > > > The south side park in Holyoke was terrific. There were a couple hundred > robins which were distracting, but I also had Townsend’s Warbler, Cassin’s > Vireo, Ruby-crowned Kinglet , Wilson’s and Orange Crowned Warbler, Red and > White-breasted Nuthatches and a Western Tanager. There must have been a > tremendous bloom of something in the hackberry trees because that is where > all the action was. I should have stayed put because there was zilch at > the cemetery (those hackberrys were in mourning, I guess), the fishing > hole was slow and by the time I made it to Ovid the day was pretty much > over. Nothing special at Jumbo. > > > > Bill Kaempfer > > Boulder > > >
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