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Saturday Bird Walk & Bird Count − January 27, 2018
Mostly sunny and cool. 30°F. 2-6 mph. 10 participants.

It was a chilly and damp start to the morning at Teller Farm. So to escape that, we ventured to Boulder Creek. Makes sense, right? Not really, but the creek has open water and you can always find birds, in winter, around open water.

   Photographs from January 27, 2018 Wild Bird Company Saturday Morning Bird Walk
       
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Ring-Necked Duck
©Kevin Rutherford
Mallards and a Gadwall
©Eileen Rutherford
                 












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Bird of the Day
Common Goldeneye −
Bucephala clangula

   
 
 
 
   
  
 
   
It seems a rite of passage in Longmont to take your kids crayfish (or crawdad, it you prefer)
Common Goldeneye
©Kevin Rutherford
fishing. Armed with a cane pole or stick and a paperclip hook, you go down to a ditch and toss in a piece of hotdog on your hook and wait a very short time until a crayfish grabs on and you pull it out. We have a lot of crayfish around here. That is why we also have a lot of crayfish eating birds like hooded mergansers and our Bird of the Day, the common goldeneye. Common goldeneyes are rather skittish, but we found one having success hunting crayfish and we had a good long look at this striking bird.

All About Birds, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology:
Common Goldeneye
©Kevin Rutherford


All About Birds, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, by Jessie Barry:   How To Recognize Duck Courtship Displays

BirdFellow:   Common Goldeneye

Audubon, Guide to North American Birds:

Youtube Video by slpatt:

Youtube Video by WBCBoulderCO:
Common Goldeneye
©Kevin Rutherford
Mallards Preening - Wild Bird Company Bird Walk 
 Bird Count: Saturday, January 27, 2018


 
Teller Farm & Lakes, Boulder, Colorado, US
Sat Jan 20, 2018  
Great Blue Heron ©Neal Zaun
7:45 AM - 8:25 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.75 mile(s)
20 species

Canada Goose 20
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
Mourning Dove 1
Northern Flicker 1
Blue Jay 1
Black-billed Magpie 7
American Crow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Brown Creeper 1
American Robin 1
European Starling 10
Dark-eyed Junco 3
White-crowned Sparrow 4
Song Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 12
House Finch 6
American Goldfinch 6
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
©Kevin Rutherford

House Sparrow 1


Boulder Creek--75th St., Boulder, Colorado, US
 Jan 27, 2018
8:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
25 species (+2 other taxa)

Canada Goose 30
Gadwall 4
American Wigeon 8
Mallard 30
Ring-necked Duck 1
Belted Kingfisher ©Steve Frye

Common Goldeneye 1, see Bird of the Day
Hooded Merganser 4
Great Blue Heron 1
Bald Eagle 3, two near nest
Red-tailed Hawk 2
     Red-tailed Hawk (Harlan's) 1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 50
Eurasian Collared-Dove 6
Belted Kingfisher 2
Northern Flicker 1
     Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) 2
American Kestrel 2
Blue Jay 2
Hooded Merganser ©Steve Frye

Black-billed Magpie 2
Black-capped Chickadee 4
Brown Creeper 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
European Starling 4
Song Sparrow 4
Red-winged Blackbird 24
House Finch 6
American Goldfinch 6

Song Sparrow ©Kevin Rutherford





House Finches ©Eileen Rutherford






                                                  




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                                                  Total species seen: 32
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Coyote  ©Neal Zaun






Boulder Creek ©Steve Frye





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