Birding really good again

Although I could not refind the 2 Long-billed Curlews today, I did find 1 Cattle Egret, 1 Say's Phoebe, 2 Lesser Yellowlegs (the Greaters seem to have moved on), several Blue-winged Teal, Black Phoebes, and Lesser Goldfinch in Canon City today.

I drove to Salida later today. In western Fremont County I found another pair of Black Phoebes, plus both Audubon's and Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warblers. A pair of Black Phoebes have nested here for the past several years.

In the Salida area I saw a Yellow Warbler, the first I've seen this season, several Myrtle Yellow-rumped Warblers and Lesser Goldfinch. This area (a mountain valley with an elevation of around 7,000 feet) also produced one male Red-naped Sapsucker, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, another Say's Phoebe, an adult Golden Eagle and a singing Spotted Towhee. In some flooded farm fields near Salida were 100-125 Franklin's Guls and 90-100 ibis species.

I will have to wait to post photos of these and yesterday's notable birds later as I have to be back in Salida tomorrow morning for the Arkansas Basin Water Forum.

SeEtta