Sunday July 22, 2007
We took the day off from birding to watch the British Open. Nice finish in a playoff, mostly our feet did not see hiking boots until late afternoon.
We made a drive over to Rabbit Valley to look for Scott's Orioles. It is getting late in the season, but we did get lucky and find two males at separate locations. One male was in the Juniper-Pinyon “forest” southwest of M.80 and 80 roads. The other male was found by hiking to the draw 0.2 miles east of a spot 0.4 miles south of M.80 and 80 roads.
Bonuses from the location included a singing Rock Wren, 2 singing Black-throated Sparrows, a Sage Thrasher, and a calling Say's Phoebe. Guess they were happy that it had cooled down from the very hot afternoon. We also had a vireo that was probably a Gray Vireo, but not seen well enough to rule out a Plumbeous Vireo.
There were several Great-tailed Grackles seen at Fruita State Park as we returned to Grand Junction.
We took the day off from birding to watch the British Open. Nice finish in a playoff, mostly our feet did not see hiking boots until late afternoon.
We made a drive over to Rabbit Valley to look for Scott's Orioles. It is getting late in the season, but we did get lucky and find two males at separate locations. One male was in the Juniper-Pinyon “forest” southwest of M.80 and 80 roads. The other male was found by hiking to the draw 0.2 miles east of a spot 0.4 miles south of M.80 and 80 roads.
Bonuses from the location included a singing Rock Wren, 2 singing Black-throated Sparrows, a Sage Thrasher, and a calling Say's Phoebe. Guess they were happy that it had cooled down from the very hot afternoon. We also had a vireo that was probably a Gray Vireo, but not seen well enough to rule out a Plumbeous Vireo.
There were several Great-tailed Grackles seen at Fruita State Park as we returned to Grand Junction.
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