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Greetings!
Julie and I decided to bird the Strawberry Valley today since
neither one of us had been there in a long time. About 100 yards
after turning off Highway 40 toward the reservoir, we caught sight of two
Black-crowned Night Heron and two Short-eared
Owls nestled in the willows by the water. The birds flushed and
the two heron turned into thirty with an additional twenty birds joining them at
their new resting spot. Fifty night heron - what a sight! There were
lots of Cliff Swallows, Savannah Sparrows and
most enjoyable were the Mountain Bluebirds
vying with the Tree Swallows for the nesting boxes.
Other birds of interest today: In the North Fields of
Heber were Bobolinks, lots of winnowing Wilson's
Snipe, Sandhill Cranes and a few Wilson's
Phalarope. If anyone needs help with directions to the
Bobolinks, please let me know. Up on the hillside at the end of Jeremy
Ranch Road (where the road hairpins around into Daybreaker Road) was a
Green-tailed Towhee. Our most productive
birding came in George Washington Park where we saw among other things
a Warbling Vireo, Fox Sparrow,
Downy Woodpecker, Red-naped Sapsucker and a
pair of Plumbeous Vireos.
Pomera
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