[kent nelson]

Cobirders,

Judy Scheig and I wanted to see the creek at Crow Valley today. There weren't many birds at the campground -- W. Meadowlark, Chipping Sparrow, N. Harrier, E. Collared-Dove. The Field Guides group had Townsend's Solitaire. We then drove the grassland, knowing it was too early to see much besides Horned Larks. Heading S on CR 69, though, we found four McCown's Longspurs and two Long-billed Curlews. We then drove CR 105 to Jackson Lake and encountered a flock of hundreds of McCown's. 

Nothing much at Jackson Lake. It was windy and cold. But we had a couple of pairs of Wood Ducks in the ponds near the river crossing on 144.

Kent Nelson

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