Saturday, 15 September 2012

[cobirds] Re: Phillips County Birding 9/15



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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