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Wild Bird Center Saturday Morning Birders

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day -- Henry David Thoreau 

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January 14, 2012. Partly cloudy and breezy. 30°F. 3-10 mph.  8 participants.

Sometimes when you are on a bird walk what strikes you are the birds you haven’t seen. We were almost done with our walk today and I realized that I had not seen a starling. It became a kind of joke for a while, but in the end we did see a small flock of starlings.

Green Mountain Cemetery:

HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES
Red-tailed Hawk, 1
WOODPECKERS
Northern Flicker, 4
THRUSHES
Townsend's Solitaire, 3
American Robin, 4
CROWS AND JAYS
Steller's Jay, 1
Black-billed Magpie, 8
American Crow, 6
FINCHES, SISKINS, CROSSBILLS
House Finch, 8
SPARROWS, TOWHEES, JUNCOS
Dark-eyed Junco, 2

Species seen – 9

Valmont Reservoir:

GREBES
Pied-billed Grebe, 6
Horned Grebe, 2
DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS
Canada Goose, 50
American Wigeon, 2
Gadwall, 2               
Mallard, 20
Common Merganser, 6
HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES
Bald Eagle, 1
Red-tailed Hawk, 1
RAILS, GALLINULES AND COOTS
American Coot, 100
GULLS
Ring-billed Gull, 2
PIGEONS AND DOVES
Eurasian Collared-Dove, 1
CROWS AND JAYS
Black-billed Magpie, 2

Species seen - 13

Wally Tate Pond at Walden Ponds:

DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS

Canada Goose, 1
Canvasback, 1
Ring-necked Duck, 16
Common Goldeneye, 2

Species seen - 4

Boulder Creek at 75th:

DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS

Mallard, 20
Northern Shoveler, 1, ‘tebowing’
HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES
Red-tailed Hawk, 1
Golden Eagle, 1
FALCONS AND CARACARAS
American Kestrel, 1
PIGEONS AND DOVES
Rock Pigeon, 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove, 8
KINGFISHERS
Belted Kingfisher, 3
WOODPECKERS
Northern Flicker, 4
THRUSHES
American Robin, 2
CHICKADEES AND TITS
Black-capped Chickadee, 4
NUTHATCHES
White-breasted Nuthatch, 1
CREEPERS
Brown Creeper, 1
CROWS AND JAYS
Blue Jay, 1
Black-billed Magpie, 2
STARLINGS
European Starling, 8
FINCHES, SISKINS, CROSSBILLS
House Finch, 2
American Goldfinch, 1
Evening Grosbeak, 20
SPARROWS, TOWHEES, JUNCOS
Song Sparrow, 1
BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, GRACKLES, ETC.
Red-winged Blackbird, 40

Species seen – 21

Total species seen – 37

January 7, 2012.  Partly cloudy and cool.  25°F.  0-5 mph.  12 participants.

Happy Anniversary! The Wild Bird Center is 23 years old today. We have been offering the Saturday Morning Walk for 22 ½ years every Saturday! Thank you all for the support. Our bird walk list for this morning will show few species, typical of mid-winter birding on the Front Range. However, with a little searching it is also the time of year when you can find rarities. Our most uncommon bird we saw this morning was a dark morph snow goose sometimes referred to as a ‘blue goose’.

Boulder Reservoir:

HERONS, EGRETS AND BITTERNS
Great Blue Heron, 1
DUCKS, GEESE AND SWANS
Snow Goose, 1, ‘blue goose’
Canada Goose, 2500
Common Goldeneye, 4
Common Merganser, 20
HAWKS, EAGLES AND KITES
Bald Eagle, 3
Red-tailed Hawk, 1
FALCONS AND CARACARAS
American Kestrel, 2
RAILS, GALLINULES AND COOTS
American Coot, 1
GULLS
Ring-billed Gull, 2
PIGEONS AND DOVES
Rock Pigeon, 20
Eurasian Collared-Dove, 1
WOODPECKERS
Northern Flicker, 8
THRUSHES
American Robin, 3
CROWS AND JAYS
Blue Jay, 1
Black-billed Magpie, 3
American Crow, 5
STARLINGS
European Starling, 40

Total species seen – 18

 Wild Bird Center Saturday Walks:

From 7:30 am (promptly) to 9:45 am (approximately)

Every Saturday year-round. No reservations required.  Every last Saturday of the month we travel further afield than normal and return a little later.  Bird walk locations are determined on the morning of the walk.

To sign up for or be removed from the bird walk list simply write us an e-mail at WBCBoulderCO@aol.com. Thanks