I've been heading out to Crow Valley pretty much weekly, usually on Mondays. Today was like many of my outings -- the first 1-2 hours after sunrise (actually starting just before sunrise) are very birdy, and then activity drops off rapidly. You can actually see the birds heading out of the campground, usually to the north. I have no idea where they are going, but migrant birds will backtrack to an area they find more appealing than the one they land in. I just don't know where north of Crow that might be.
Today's highlights were
-EASTERN TOWHEE (present later in day, in scrub/willows at south end)
-Cassin's Finch (female type, present only early in day between first bathroom/parking and campground itself)
-Tennessee Warbler (near Cassin's Finch, but in trees just south of entrance road - CAFI was just north of entrance road)
-6 Empids, scattered about, including a Least, a Dusky, and 2 Hammond's - seems to be getting late for these beasties
-3 Lutescent Orange-crowned Warblers. After a couple weeks of dingy (at least on head) OCWAs, today I had a close up encounter with a brilliant yellow-green (i.e., lutescent) Orange-crowned. These are from the west coast, much like Cassin's Vireos and Townsend's Warblers, though they don't breed quite as far east (but close). Later I had three in one tree. Photos to come
-4 Red-naped Sapsuckers. Some of these seem to be same individuals from last week, but starting to get a few red feathers on nape. Many Red-napeds do not have red on nape before late September.
-1 Montane Hairy Woodpecker (essentially no white on wing coverts)
-1 Lapland Longspur (seen from former ranger station in pool down hillside)
Loloff Reservoir is high and has decoys on it: nearly no birds
L Latham has no shorebird habitat. Lotsa Western Grebes on reservoir. Not much else
Behrens Reservoir area: the small pond on corner of 46 and 41 had 50+ snipe, some LB Dowitchers and a few peep.
Stewarts' Pond - hundreds of coots, a fair number of ducks, not much else
Terry Lake and McIntosh in Boulder a big yawn.
Union has some mud on n. side that is worth checking: Caspian Tern, Common Tern, and Marbled Godwit within last 10 days or so.
Good Birding
Steve Mlodinow
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