Today birding felt like a slog, with very low numbers of regular migrants (except Yellow Warblers and Swainson's Thrushes) and a fair bit of wind by mid-day.
In the end, somehow, I wound up with a day list of 117 species, birding basically Crow Valley and Jackson Lake.
1- Norma's Grove: nearly birdless
2- Weld CR 59 Ponds: water levels relatively high. No migrant shorebirds except a handful of Wilson's Phals
Crow Valley:
Red-eyed Vireo
Indigo Bunting
American Redstart
Gray Flycatcher
Bullock's x Baltimore Oriole
2 Veery
Mountain race Downy Woodpecker (same male there one month ago?)
Jackson Lake State Park:
Western Bluebird (near visitor center; photographed)
Mountain race Hairy Woodpecker
Ovenbird
American Redstart
Jackson Lake SWA:
There is a little slough just east of main entrance road as it heads south to lake with a flock of shorebirds including
1 BB Plover
3 Marbled Godwits
8 Stilt Sandpipers
13 White-rumped Sandpipers
I was standing at one spot at Crow Valley and heard an nighthawk. "Cool," I thought. Then I heard a Veery call from the same spot. "Wow !" I thought. Then an Ash-throated Flycatcher. "Holy Cow!!!" I thought. Neigh, it was a Holy Mockingbird, Batman. I should have known. Not even the best cow mimic can do that good of an Ash-throated Fly imitation.
Steven Mlodinow
Sleepless and delirious in Sterling, CO
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