Today on the east side of Fort Collins I checked Kechter Pond (Larimer, distantly viewable to the se from Strauss Cabin Road at a pulloff about a mile south of Harmony), then moved east to Timnath Res (Larimer) and ended up at Crow Valley (Weld).
Kechter Pond
*Caspian Tern (1, probably the same one Steve Mlodinow found several weeks ago)
Great Egret (at least 3)
fair number of other common waterfowl
Timnath Res (as viewed from the south parking lot area, water level high)
*Common Goldeneye (1 juv or female with a yellow eye and all-black bill, extreme sw corner)
4 grebes (P-b, E, W, and Clark's, probably some W-Clark's mutts)
Redhead (100+)
Ruddy Duck (few dozen)
Egret sp. (white, didn't appear big enough to be Great, very far off in nw corner, probably imm. Snowy)
California Gull (few)
Hooded Merganser (1)
Common Merganser (5)
Bullock's Oriole (heard)
Chipping Sparrow (heard)
Wood Duck (2 young)
[no shorebirds that I could see except Killdeer and Spotted Sandpiper, but admittedly did not check ne, e, and se shores very well at all]
Crow Valley CG
*Interesting empid (very yellow underneath, very greenish above, pointed crown, all yellow lower mandible, didn't get a good look at eyering or primary extension, impression was Cordilleran, in the gallery forest along the fenceline s of the Main Picnic Shelter, only got two brief looks, very windy, lost it!)
Black-headed Grosbeak (at least 3)
Calliope Hummingbird (at least 2f or imm m)
Broad-tailed Hummingbird (1 young male, small rose-pink throat patch)
Rufous Hummingbird (I think, a female seen poorly)
Western Wood-Pewee (2)
[did NOT see Cassin's Kingbird (although I once thought I heard one near the Main Picnic Shelter)]
Common Nighthawk (at least 20, hovering in the wind of the on-coming storm like tethered kites at the beach)
Interesting that all the hummingbird activity at Crow Valley was in the dry creekbed south of the Main Shelter and the plant of interest was a white-blooming mint, I think Catnip (Nepeta cataria).
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
Kechter Pond
*Caspian Tern (1, probably the same one Steve Mlodinow found several weeks ago)
Great Egret (at least 3)
fair number of other common waterfowl
Timnath Res (as viewed from the south parking lot area, water level high)
*Common Goldeneye (1 juv or female with a yellow eye and all-black bill, extreme sw corner)
4 grebes (P-b, E, W, and Clark's, probably some W-Clark's mutts)
Redhead (100+)
Ruddy Duck (few dozen)
Egret sp. (white, didn't appear big enough to be Great, very far off in nw corner, probably imm. Snowy)
California Gull (few)
Hooded Merganser (1)
Common Merganser (5)
Bullock's Oriole (heard)
Chipping Sparrow (heard)
Wood Duck (2 young)
[no shorebirds that I could see except Killdeer and Spotted Sandpiper, but admittedly did not check ne, e, and se shores very well at all]
Crow Valley CG
*Interesting empid (very yellow underneath, very greenish above, pointed crown, all yellow lower mandible, didn't get a good look at eyering or primary extension, impression was Cordilleran, in the gallery forest along the fenceline s of the Main Picnic Shelter, only got two brief looks, very windy, lost it!)
Black-headed Grosbeak (at least 3)
Calliope Hummingbird (at least 2f or imm m)
Broad-tailed Hummingbird (1 young male, small rose-pink throat patch)
Rufous Hummingbird (I think, a female seen poorly)
Western Wood-Pewee (2)
[did NOT see Cassin's Kingbird (although I once thought I heard one near the Main Picnic Shelter)]
Common Nighthawk (at least 20, hovering in the wind of the on-coming storm like tethered kites at the beach)
Interesting that all the hummingbird activity at Crow Valley was in the dry creekbed south of the Main Shelter and the plant of interest was a white-blooming mint, I think Catnip (Nepeta cataria).
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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