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Saturday Bird Walk - Bird Count
October 10, 2015
October 10, 2015. Sunny and hot. 70-80°F. 0-3 mph. 12 participants.
Our warm fall continued with a very warm October walk this morning. We need a freeze to help those fall colors pop. Regardless, the poison ivy was looking good (see slide show). Drake mallards are still molting out of their eclipse plumage and into their fine green-headed glory.                        
                                     View Photo Gallery                    View Slide Show
Bird of the Day
Brown Creeper, Certhia americana
Brown Creeper
©Steve Frye

Brown creepers have a high thin call with a bit of trill in it. Many birders with hearing issues cannot hear their faint and non-directional calls. Along Boulder Creek we met with at least three creepers calling usually loud. It took some time to find them, as is almost always the case. We found three high in the trees. See the slide show for the "Where's Waldo" images of the birds we saw this morning.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds:
Brown Creeper

Bird Count:  Saturday, October 10, 2015

Boulder Creek at 75th St. - Boulder, Colorado, US
Oct 10, 2015 7:45 AM - 9:30 AM
Protocol: Traveling

1.5 mile(s)
Red-Winged Blackbird
©Steve Frye

26 species (+4 other taxa) 

Canada Goose 20
Wood Duck 6
Mallard 24
Double-crested Cormorant 3
Bald Eagle 1
Ring-billed Gull 2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 100
Eurasian Collared-Dove 8
Belted Kingfisher 2
Downy Woodpecker 3
Northern Flicker 4
Blue Jay 1
Black-billed Magpie 5
American Crow 4
Black-capped Chickadee 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
Brown Creeper 3, see Bird of the Day
American Robin 2
European Starling 10
Yellow-rumped Warbler 6
European Starling
©Steve Frye

     Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 2
     Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's) 4
Dark-eyed Junco 2
     Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 1
     Dark-eyed Junco (Pink-sided) 2
Song Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Western Meadowlark 1
House Finch 6
American Goldfinch 1
 
Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat - Boulder, Colorado, US
Oct 10, 2015 9:35 AM - 10:50 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
26 species

Canada Goose 30
Wood Duck 4
Gadwall 20
American Wigeon 40
Mallard 20
Green-winged Teal 8
Ring-necked Duck 5
Pied-billed Grebe 12
Downy Woodpecker
©Jane Baryames

Double-crested Cormorant 6
Great Blue Heron 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
American Coot 1
Killdeer 4
Greater Yellowlegs 6
Wilson's Snipe 6
Ring-billed Gull 30
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
Black-billed Magpie 2
Black-capped Chickadee 6
White-crowned Sparrow 3
Song Sparrow 4
Red-winged Blackbird 10
American Goldfinch 12
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Total species seen:  38             
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Poison Ivy ©Clark Anderson
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