Windsor Lake (in the town of Windsor)
Caspian Tern (2) brief flyover
Cackling Goose (still a small group lingering near the Swim Beach)
Clark's Grebe (saw one for sure, probably a few more)
Most of the ducks were Northern Shovelers, Ruddy Ducks and Blue-winged Teal
Bonaparte's Gull (2 in alternate, 1 molting into alternate)
Weld CR79 s of SR14 at CR88.5 (fallow field east of)
Mountain Plover (2 heard)
Crow Valley Campground
Golden-crowned Kinglet (1f) in junipers out north within the cattle exclosure area
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1m)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (few)
Briefly chatted with a group of Brits embarking on a Colorado grouse tour. They were dressed for the North Pole, which, as it turned out, wasn't such a bad idea today. Not a lot of birds at CVCG, Except for campers, still looks like February out there.
Was sad to see the USFS has cut down most of the Russian-olives in the campground and out north of the Group Picnic area along Mourning Dove Trail, including the big one by the cattle pond at the gate that some of us called "The Magic Olive" for all the birds that have been seen in it over the years, including the 1st State Record Brown-crested Flycatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, vireos, Prairie Warbler, mimic thrushes, sapsuckers, wintering solitaires, Western Tanagers, the list goes on and on. Very few paradigms are absolute, and in my opinion the notion that Russian-olives are bad everywhere they aren't native is absolutely wrong.
GR96 w between Weld CR77 and CR69 ("Murphy's Pasture")
McCown's Longspur (only 1)
Burrowing Owl
Vesper Sparrows
Loggerhead Shrike - many recently impaled objects (over 100!), mostly redshank grasshoppers (many of them still alive) plus a few other grasshopper species, field crickets, two lesser earless lizards, two many-lined skinks and...... a smallish wolf spider.
Crom Lake (Weld CR31 between CRs 88 and 90)
Marbled Godwit (1)
American Avocet (24)
many common ducks, swallows
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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