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April 26, 2014
Partly cloudy and mild. 50�F. 2-4 mph. 18 participants.
binoculars and child

A great morning of early spring birding. Many of the ducks are heading out, but the shorebirds are coming in so we get both right now. We saw many first-of-the-year birds for the Saturday Walks like house wren, eastern kingbird, and brown-headed cowbird. Also of note this morning was a hybrid blue-winged X cinnamon teal (see slide show). This bird shows the body coloration of a cinnamon teal and the white facial crescent of a blue-winged teal.

View our Saturday, April 26, 2014 Bird Walk SLIDE SHOW

Walden & Sawhill Ponds:
Apr 26, 2014 7:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
58 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose  30
Wood Duck  3
Gadwall  30
American Wigeon  2
Mallard  10
Blue-winged Teal  14
Cinnamon Teal  8
Blue-winged x Cinnamon Teal (hybrid)  1, see slide show
Northern Shoveler  30
Northern Pintail  2
Green-winged Teal  2
Redhead  6
Ring-necked Duck  20
Common Merganser  2
Ruddy Duck  1
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Double-crested Cormorant  2
Great Blue Heron  12
Osprey  2
Bald Eagle  1
Red-tailed Hawk  4
Sora  1, heard only
American Coot  8
Black-necked Stilt  3, see Bird of the Day
American Avocet  10
Killdeer  10
Lesser Yellowlegs  1
Baird's Sandpiper  7
Semipalmated Sandpiper  1
Wilson's Snipe  1, winnowing
Ring-billed Gull  2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon)  14
Eurasian Collared-Dove  2
Mourning Dove  10
Great Horned Owl  2
Belted Kingfisher  4
Downy Woodpecker  2
Northern Flicker  8
Say's Phoebe  1
Eastern Kingbird  1, early return     
Blue Jay  1
Black-billed Magpie  4
Common Raven  1
Tree Swallow  40
Barn Swallow  2
Black-capped Chickadee  8
House Wren  10
Marsh Wren  1, heard only
American Robin  10
European Starling  6
Yellow-rumped Warbler  16
Song Sparrow  4
White-crowned Sparrow  2
Red-winged Blackbird  30
Common Grackle  20
Brown-headed Cowbird  20
House Finch  2
Lesser Goldfinch  1
American Goldfinch  30
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Total species seen:  58
 
Note: Species in bold are birds that were special on the walk for
reasons like a great view, out-of-season, great numbers, or rarity.
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Bird of the Day
April 26, 2014
Saturday Bird Walk

Black-Necked Stilt
�Steve Frye    
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Black-Necked Stilt    
  On our second pass by Cottonwood Marsh we found three black-necked stilts. It can pay off to recheck an area that you may bypass because you have already been there. Today's find of the stilts was exciting for me because I don't often see these birds in Boulder County. They are a striking black and white bird of dainty proportions on top of preposterously thin and long hot pink legs. Black-necked stilts have the longest legs in proportion to their body size of all North American Birds. The image of all three flying in formation today is still vivid in my mind.  

Cornell Lab of Ornithology,
All About Birds    
 Black-Necked Stilt      

BirdFellow
Black-Necked Stilt

Youtube Video by LabofOrnithology   


House Wren
�Carolyn Beach
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Red-Tailed Hawk
�Neal Zaun
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Great Horned Owl
�Steve Frye
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American Plum
�Steve Frye
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