Yesterday, I went to Crow Valley hoping for something special. What I found was a total lack of birds for mid-May! I spent almost three hours to find female Lazuli Bunting, female Indigo Bunting, Hermit Thrush, several Swainson Thrushes, Epidonax Flycatcher, Western Tanager, 2 Yellow Warblers and a couple of Bullock's Orioles. If it wasn't for the Western and Eastern Kingbirds, the place would have been silent. This seems to be the slowest migration that I can remember. The rare and uncommon migrants seem to be in normal numbers but the resident migrants are mostly absent! Maybe the resident migrants noticed the vegetation weeks ahead of schedule and shot to the breeding grounds. Just a thought......
I headed to Teller Farms on my way home and saw at least 6 Boblinks. Photos of the Bobolinks can be seen in the rare to uncommon gallery below:
Mark Chavez
Lakewood-Green Mtn
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