Tuesday, 17 June 2014

[cobirds] Yuma. County and more

Today Nick Moore and I decided to see what was around Hale. The tastiest tidbits were in the woods at "Hale Crossing" at the NE corner of MM and 4. In those woods were a singing Summer Tanager, an imm Magnolia Warbler in rather worn plumage, and a singing Red-eyed Vireo (the vireo was incorporating rather perfect snippets of Eastern Wood Pewee and Great Crested Fly into its song).

At Hale Ponds there were
5 Red-eyed Vireos (3 singing males, likely paired with 2 females),
A Willow Fly
10 GC Flycatchers
70+ Orchard Orioles
4 Baltimore Orioles
1 RB Woodpecker
3 YB Cuckoo
2 Green Herons

Migration is on the way again - southbound. There were >125 Wilson's Phalarope, all females, and the drying Neegronda.

Waterbirding was otherwise (perhaps predictably) somewhat lackluster, but a Mountain Plover in the prairie dog town on the south side, towards west, of Lake Henry was a nice surprise.

Lastly, there was a Lewis's Woodpecker where CO 194 crosses the Fort Lyon Canal

Good Birding
Steven Mlodinow
Speeding towards Longmont CO


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