Summer Birds Field Trip

Twelve of us enjoyed a very warm morning of birding along Foster Road and South Fork Russell Creek Road today.  Gray catbirds were out singing all along Foster Road.  We also saw yellow-breasted chats, all three hummingbirds - rufous, calliope and black-chinned, western wood peewees, willow flycatchers, house wrens, yellow warblers, lazuli buntings, western tanagers, Bullock's orioles, black-headed grosbeaks and much more.  A western flycatcher was in a tree along S. Fork Russell Creek - just where the Corvinos saw it a week ago.  And we saw two Say's phoebe chicks sitting on a fence railing waiting to be fed. The only birds to elude us were the warbling vireo and the veery.  We heard both of them, but weren't able to actually see the birds.  It was a great outing, and even though we started at 7:00 a.m. it was very hot by the time we called it quits at noon.  The birds had quieted down and it was time to head for the shade!   Thanks to all who joined me this morning.   Ginger