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  Saturday Bird Walk − Bird Count − July 16, 2016    
Pleasant and slightly overcast. 75°F. 2-6 mph. 10 participants.

  We went chasing a recently reported rarity this morningwith good results.                    
American Bullfrog  ©Steve Frye
Always nice to deliver when you tell the group we are in search of something specific. The morning was great, but not just because of seeing a rarity.

                                    
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Bird of the Day
Little Blue Heron − 
Egretta caerulea

      
Little Blue Herons have the habit of post-breeding wonderings which take them sometimes far
Little Blue Heron ©Steve Frye

away from their normal range. We were the benefactors this morning of one of these wonderings. When we first showed up at Fairgrounds Pond, there was no little blue to be seen. Thankfully, a small dark heron came flying by the pond and happened to land right in front of us on the island. It was the little blue heron.

 
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds:
 
Birdfellow:  Little Blue Heron
 
Youtube Video by WBCBoulderCO:  Wild Bird Company Bird Walk - Little Blue Heron

Flickriver:  Little Blue Heron
Bird Count: Saturday, July 9, 2016
  

Waneka Lake and Greenlee Preserve, Boulder, CO-US
Jul 9, 2016  7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
American Robin  ©Neal Zaun

Protocol: Traveling
1.5 mile(s)
38 species

Canada Goose 12
Wood Duck 1
Mallard 3
Pied-billed Grebe 2
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Osprey 1, caught a fish
Swainson's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Sora 3, two young
Killdeer 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove 8
African Collared-Dove 1, heard only
Mourning Dove 2
Broad-tailed Hummingbird 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
Eastern Kingbird 1
Two-Tailed Swallowtail  ©Neal Zaun

Blue Jay 2
American Crow 2
Tree Swallow 1
Barn Swallow 6
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Bushtit 8
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
House Wren 3
Marsh Wren 2
American Robin 4
European Starling 10
Song Sparrow 1
Spotted Towhee 1
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Common Grackle 12
Greater Spreadwing
©Clark Anderson

Bullock's Oriole 1
House Finch 6
American Goldfinch 4
 
 
 
Fairgrounds Pond, Boulder, CO-US
Jul 16, 2016 9:50 AM - 11:10 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.25 mile(s)
27 species

Canada Goose 6
Mallard 4
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 2
Paddle-Tailed Darner  ©Steve Frye

Little Blue Heron 1, see Bird of the Day
Green Heron 2
Osprey 2
Swainson's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 6
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Eurasian Collared-Dove 4
Mourning Dove 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
Western Kingbird 1
Blue Jay 1
Osprey  ©Clark Anderson

Barn Swallow 4
Cliff Swallow 2
American Robin 1
European Starling 2
Song Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 6
Western Meadowlark 1
Common Grackle 3
House Finch 4
American Goldfinch 4




Great Blue Heron and Little Blue Heron  ©Neal Zaun


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Total species seen: 44
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