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Saturday Bird Walk & Bird Count − March 18, 2017
Mild and calm. 50°F. 2-5 mph. 13 participants.

Mum Floating on South Boulder Creek ©Eileen Rutherford 
On this unusually warm day in an unusually warm month, we thought we would go looking for early migrants. Lots of birds are singing and starting to set up territories. Time to start sharpening those spring ears!
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Bird of the Day
Northern Shrike −
Lanius excubitor
  
 

When I was making my ebird lists for this morning, ebird flagged my choice for Northern Shrike as rare. My other choices were loggerhead shrike which would also have been flagged rare or a combo choice of Northern/loggerhead shrike which would not have been mark
Northern Shrike ©Steve Frye
ed rare. Somehow, the choice not distinguishing the two rare choices is not rare itself. I'm confused.Ebird, for those of you who don't know, is a website from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology which allows you to track your bird sightings and see what others have been seeing recently and historically. It's great fun and your data is compiled along with thousands of others for researchers to use. You should explore the eBird Website and consider keeping your sightings there. Back to the shrike; we have some Northern Shrikes here in the winter, it was only flagged as rare because most of them have moved on by now. It was great to get this last look until next winter.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds:   Northern Shrike

Birdfellow:  Northern Shrike
 
Bird Count: Saturday, March 18, 2017
 
South Mesa Trail, 
Boulder, CO-US
American Robin ©Steve Frye
Mar 18, 2017  7:45 AM - 8:55 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
20 species

Mallard 5
Great Blue Heron 1
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 3
Northern Shrike 1, see Bird of the Day
Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay 1
American Crow 1
Common Raven 1
Spotted Towhee  ©Kevin Rutherford

Black-capped Chickadee 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Townsend's Solitaire 1
American Robin 4
European Starling 6
Cedar Waxwing 1
Song Sparrow 3
Spotted Towhee 3
Western Meadowlark 1
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 1
 
 
Baseline Reservoir, Boulder, Colorado, US

Mar 18, 2017 9:05 AM - 9:25 AM
Downy Woodpecke r
©Kevin Rutherford

Protocol: Stationary
17 species

Canada Goose 10
Gadwall 60
Mallard 10
Northern Shoveler 20
Bufflehead 1
Hooded Merganser 2
Common Merganser 1
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Killdeer 1
Mallard Pair ©Steve Frye

Greater Yellowlegs 1
Ring-billed Gull 20
Downy Woodpecker 2
American Crow 10
European Starling 2
Red-winged Blackbird 6
 
 
Centennial Trail, Boulder, Colorado, US

Mar 18, 2017 9:30 AM - 10:20 AM
Protocol: Traveling
Townsend's Solitaire
©Kevin Rutherford

1.25 mile(s)
12 species (+1 other taxa)

Mallard 5
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 6
Black-billed Magpie 1
American Crow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
American Robin 2
European Starling 4
Dark-eyed Junco 1
     Dark-eyed Junco (Pink-sided) 1
House Finch 2

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Total species seen:  35
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