Today felt like Seattle at times. Drizzly and without migrants.
But there were some prime moments.
At dawn, below the dam at Stalker Lake, Yuma, there was a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER and a PHILADELPHIA VIREO plus Black-and-white Warbler and American Redstart.
At the Wray Fish Hatchery, there was a RUSSET-BACKED (Swainson's) THRUSH and an Indigo Bunting plus 2 Great Crested Flycatchers (not rare for Yuma, but rare for Wray)
In the town of Laird, 7 miles e. of Wray and exceedingly close to Nebraska, there was another RUSSET-BACKED THRUSH and a Veery
The shelterbelts took much work and yielded only a Northern Waterthrush
At Lions Fish Hatchery, I was almost eaten by an extremely poorly managed, large, snarling, foaming-at-mouth dog totally uncontrolled by its inept owner that took a couple goodly lunges at me. Remember that this is a time to get up on a picnic bench. You are harder to get at and you look much larger. What a strange event. 5 Black Terns, however, made up for the black dog and an Eastern Willow Flycatcher (photos to come) were highlights there.
The neighborhood around the end of Akron (go e. on Akron from the US HWY just before it goes n. out of Holyoke) was birdy, with highlights including BROAD-WINGED HAWK, American Redstart, and a migrant Bell's Vireo.
The town of Haxtun had another BW HAWK and American Redstart
Good Birding
Steve Mlodinow
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