[cobirds] around fort collins, saturday

Sorry for the late post...went birding saturday morning with David and Mary Driscoll and Donna Cross and her grandson.  We toughed out the rain and had a few decent birds.  Very low numbers of all the migrant breeders of the region as others have noted.

Dixon Reservoir:

highlights: a singing male American Redstart, a singing Wilson's Warbler, FOY Lark Sparrow plus a single Dusky Flycatcher, MacGillivray's Warbler and Yellow-breasted Chat.  A few catbirds, three Lazuli Buntings, Eastern Kingbird, and a handful of Orioles and maybe 8-10 Yellow Warblers.  No grosbeaks or tanagers.

Sharp Point Drive at the Poudre River trail: eastern and western Warbling Vireos (great comparison of their different songs), a Rose-breasted Grosbeak (female), FOY Western Wood-Pewee, Swainson's Thrush, 1 very likely Gray-cheeked Thrush (never could get face and breast in same view, but from what I saw looked good), also a possible Tennesee Warbler (heard only - singing across rushing rapids on river, very loud). 

Running Deer Natural Area: Sora, FOY Common Yellowthroats, Lesser Yellowlegs, Baird's Sandpiper, American Avocets, Solitary Sandpiper.

Arvind Panjabi
5700' feet, Larimer County, CO
On the north slope of Milner Mtn
Mountain mahogany shrubland and grassland