Janeal and I checked out some standard areas in and north of Lamar on 9/4. Highlights included:
Gateway Park in Lamar
Osprey
Lesser Yellowlegs
Savannah Sparrow
Tempel's Grove in Bent on CR35 n of Prowers/Bent county line
American Redstart (1 "lemonstart", a term I first heard from Tony Leukering, w of CR getting mosquitoes)
*Great Crested Flycatcher (2 foraging e of CR over the ditch e of bench, silent)
*Yellow-billed Cuckoo (1 caught a large green caterpillar in elm, probably a sphinx moth, along ditch e of CR just e of bench)
Wilson's Warbler (at least 5 in ragweed w of CR35)
Vireo sp. (probably Warbling)
Open country everywhere: large movement of Eastern Kingbirds (plus fair number of Western Kingbirds). Small numbers of Spizella sparrows, mostly Chipping. Yellow Warblers on the move, which may indicate landbird migration is still "early". Still a few Cliff and Bank Swallows around, another indication of migration being in the early stages. Not a lot of warblers or other small birds in the abundant sea of wild sunflowers along the roads. Maybe this is partly because sunflowers are "everywhere" this summer down here and not just concentrated along roads.
Thurston Res (Prowers) (which has very tall veg, making it difficult to view from any vehicle-accessible vantage)
Peregrine Falcon
Lamar Community College Woods (from the road, chiggers won the other day, I prefer not to use deet but may have to relent)
*Chestnut-sided Warbler (1st-fall female, e of road behind college just n of abandoned what-are-they-doing-there soccer nets)
Chimney Swift (still good numbers at dusk going somewhere to roost other than the big chimney by the LCC library)
Northern Cardinal (one family heard in area described above for CsWarbler)
Where are the empids? The tonnage of insect life down here is impressive (sulphurs, painted ladies, meadowhawks, differential grasshoppers, mosquitoes, bothersome flies, etc), but so far very few birds to take advantage of it.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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