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Saturday Bird Walk − Bird Count − September 24, 2016
Partly cloudy and blustery. 60°F. 5-25 mph. 10 participants.
 
          White-Breasted Nuthatch
                    ©Steve Frye
Our tradition on the last Saturday of September is to go raptor watching. This is a different style of birding that is not to everyone's liking, but it is a good change of pace. When you go out raptor watching you usually climb to a high point and sit in one spot looking for migrating hawks way up in the sky. Something I like to call "dot birding". Raptor watching has periods of excitement when several birds are passing over, followed by long stretches of looking at the sky. We didn't see a lot of raptors, but we had great clouds.

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Bird of the Day
American Dipper − 
Cinclus mexicanus

 

As we approached the creek, we were talking about how many of us had not seen a dipper in
American Dipper ©Steve Frye
a long time. I am convinced that their population locally has not recovered since the 2013 flood. Anyway, when we arrived at the creek, not only did we find a dipper, we found three. There were some not so friendly interactions going on between the three. I assume they were establishing winter territories. At one point, one of the dippers almost ran into me while chasing another.


Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds: American Dipper
 
Birdfellow:  American Dipper
 
Youtube Video by WBCBoulderCO:
 
Flickriver:  American Dipper
Bird Count: Saturday, September 24, 2016
  
 
Eben Fine Park & Boulder Creek, Boulder, CO-US
Sep 24, 2016 
Black-Billed Magpie  ©Neal Zaun
7:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
19 species

Turkey Vulture 16
Golden Eagle 1
Cooper's Hawk 1
Broad-winged Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
House Finch  ©Neal Zaun

Northern Flicker 2
Steller's Jay 1
Blue Jay 2
Black-billed Magpie 2
Common Raven 1
Black-capped Chickadee 6
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
American Dipper 3, see Bird of the Day
Townsend's Solitaire 1
American Robin 1
Wilson's Warbler 1
House Finch 8
Northern Flicker  ©Neal Zaun

Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Plumbeous Vireo 1 
Steller's Jay 2
Blue Jay 1
Clark's Nutcracker 3
Common Raven 1
Barn Swallow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Townsend's Solitaire  ©Steve Frye

Pygmy Nuthatch 10
Mountain Bluebird 8
Townsend's Solitaire 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler 3
Chipping Sparrow 4
House Finch 2
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Total species seen: 27
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