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Strawberry Valley Birding



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.
 
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