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Saturday Bird Walk & Bird Count − October 28, 2017
Overcast and chilly. 35-50°F. 4-10 mph. 11 participants.

Canada Geese Grave Art
©Steve Frye


According to tradition, we went bird watching at cemeteries this morning. There was not a lot of bird activity; in fact, you could say the cemeteries were dead. At the end of the walk I decided to drop by my house just so we could see some better activity and a few more species than we had at that point.



           
Dove Grave Art  ©Eileen Rutherford

          Photographs from October 28, 2017
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Bird of the Day
     
Dark-Eyed Junco −
Junco hyemalis 
  
 

 
  
   
 
One of the birds that I look so forward to having in my backyard every winter is the dark-eyed
Dark-Eyed Junco, Oregon Subspecies ©Kevin Rutherford
junco. They bring an element of liveliness; scratching the ground, hopping through the bushes, and flashing their white outer tail feathers as they depart. We living along the Front Range are blessed to have all six US dark-eyed junco subspecies as winter visitors. No other area of the country can make such a claim. 



Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds:

BirdFellow:   Dark-Eyed Junco
Mount Meeker from the Lyons Cemetery ©Steve Frye

A Place for my Stuff by Charles: 

Audubon, Guide to North American Birds:  

Dark-Eyed Junco Images from Previous Wild Bird
Company Walks:  Dark-Eyed Junco

Youtube Video by funkenbeachin:  Dark-Eyed Junco
Bird Count: Saturday, October 28, 2017


Green Mountain Cemetery,
Boulder, Colorado, US
Sat Oct 28, 2017  7:40 AM - 8:55 AM
Downy Woodpecker
©Eileen Rutherford

Protocol: Traveling
1.25 mile(s)
19 species (+3 other taxa)

Sharp-shinned Hawk 1
Mourning Dove 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 4
     Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) 4
Steller's Jay (Interior) 3
Blue Jay 2
Black-billed Magpie 3
American Goldfinch at Steve's Water Garden  ©Steve Frye

American Crow 1
Common Raven 3
Black-capped Chickadee 4
Mountain Chickadee 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Townsend's Solitaire 1
American Robin 1
European Starling 14
Dark-eyed Junco 8, see Bird of the Day
     Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) 2
     Dark-eyed Junco (Pink-sided) 4
Spotted Towhee 1
Northern Flicker  ©Neal Zaun

House Finch 6


Ryssby Church & Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado, US
Oct 28, 2017 9:10 AM - 9:25 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.1 mile(s)
10 species

Bald Eagle 2
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Black-billed Magpie 1
American Crow 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Dark-eyed Junco 2, see Bird of the Day
Red-winged Blackbird 6
House Finch 2


Rogers Rd West, Boulder, Colorado, US
 Oct 28, 2017 9:35 AM - 9:55 AM
Red-Breasted Nuthatch
©Kevin Rutherford

Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
6 species

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 30
Black-billed Magpie 1
Black-capped Chickadee 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
European Starling 4
Song Sparrow 1


Lyons Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado, US
 Oct 28, 2017 10:05 AM - 10:35 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
10 species (+1 other taxa)

Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
House Finch at Steve's Water Garden  ©Eileen Rutherford

Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay 1
Black-billed Magpie 1
American Crow 1
Black-capped Chickadee 4
Townsend's Solitaire 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 1
Dark-eyed Junco 6, see Bird of the Day
     Dark-eyed Junco (Pink-sided) 2
House Finch 2


Albion Lane, Boulder, Colorado, US
 Oct 28, 2017 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Protocol: Stationary
Steller's Jay  ©Kevin Rutherford

9 species

Ring-billed Gull 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove 3
Downy Woodpecker 1
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 4
American Robin 1
Dark-eyed Junco 2, see Bird of the Day
House Finch 8
American Goldfinch 6

Red-Tailed Hawk ©Neal Zaun






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  Total species seen:  30
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American Bison  ©Eileen Rutherford







Steve's Water Garden  ©Steve Frye

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