[cobirds] Routt County, Sept. 1-4

Hey, all. Andrew Floyd and I were in Routt County for the 6th annual Yampa Valley Crane Festival the past four days, Sept. 1-4, 2017. A quick summary:

Yampa River Preserve, Sept. 1. Pinyon jay, Bewick wren, Virginia's warbler, lots of gray catbirds still hanging on, and a nice mix of expected western migrants. (Yep on Bewick-no-s, Virginia-yes-s.)

Yampa River Botanic Park, Sept. 1. Willow flycatcher, several evening grosbeaks, and broad-tailed hummingbirds and white-lined sphinx moths tending the same flowers.

Rehder Ranch (private), Sept. 2. Black-chinned hummingbird, American dipper, and more green-tailed towhees than you could shake a stick at.

Catamount Lake (private), Sept. 2. 25 white-faced eye-bye (new AOS-sanctioned plural) and 2 Franklin gulls.

Carpenter Ranch (private), Sept. 3. Lots of migrants, including an American redstart. Also 17 Woodhouse scrub-jays emptying out of a narrowleaf cottonwood.

Yampavian Ranch (private), Sept. 3. Swallows galore, including 100+ violet-green swallows and a couple of tardy bank swallows.

Morgan Bottoms Road, Sept. 4. Ungodly numbers of Brewer blackbirds and a divine plenitude of sandhill cranes. Also pronghorn, alk (per local pronunciation), mule deer, and a peregrine falcon. Definitely got some of that "American Serengeti" thing going there.

West Rabbit Ears Pass, Sept. 4. A serious infestation of golden-crowned kinglets. Also gray jay, brown creeper, that sort of thing...

Cedar waxwings were absolutely everywhere, even out on the sagebrush flats, the whole time we were in Routt County.

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County

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