Crow Valley, Weld, this morning - Eastern Wood Pewee

[Steven Mlodinow]

Greetings All

On this soggy morn, I visited Crow Valley and wandered around for a couple hours.

At the north end, where the group campground is, a bright Eastern Wood-Pewee was making forays until set upon by a Western Wood-Pewee. Much noise was made during the tussle, and afterwards, the Eastern made some clearly Eastern calls, making me most happy.

Most of the birds I had were in the willow thickets at the south side of Crow Valley including 

20+ Wilson's Warblers

3 MacG Warblers

1 BAW Warbler

1 Ovenbird 

2 Redstarts (American, those would be)

At Crow Valley, en todo, I had 8 Swainson's Thrushes, 6 or so Catbirds, a dozen or so Brown Thrashers, a Townsend's Warbler, another Redstart. No Empids, vireos, or Blackpolls.

The other highlight of the day was a sweet fresh immature Krider's Red-tailed Hawk at Weld County Road 59 Ponds. 

Good Birding

Steve Mlodinow

Longmont CO