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Saturday Bird Walk & Bird Count − April 22, 2017
Overcast and cool. 40-55°F. 2-8 mph. 9 participants.

Last night's cold and needed moisture hung around this morning to give us beautiful landscapes, but not as many birds as I was hoping for. Strangely, for the second week in a row we found a dead raptor on a power pole. Last week we found an osprey which apparently got tangled in the wires around an insulator and this week we found a red-tailed hawk which appears to have been electrocuted. Depressing finds on a bird walk. 
Note: An image of the dead red-tail is included in the slide show.

Images from April 22, 2017 
Saturday  Morning Bird Walk
      
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Bird of the Day
Spotted Towhee −
Pipilo maculatus
 

 
   
  
   
It takes more than a little chill and fog to keep the spotted towhees down! They were the most active birds this morning in Doudy Draw. Announcing their territories loudly, before I felt most of the other birds were even up. 
Spotted Towhee ©Neal Zaun

Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds: 

Birdfellow:  Spotted Towhee
 

Youtube Video by Colette Micallef:
Bird Count: Saturday, April 15, 2017
 
Dowdy Draw, 
Boulder, CO-US
Black Phoebe ©Neal Zaun
Apr 22, 2017 7:45 AM - 9:05 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.5 mile(s)
17 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose 3
Mallard 3
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
Black-billed Magpie 2
Common Raven 2
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Blue-Winged Teal ©Steve Frye

American Robin 4
European Starling 2
     warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.) 2
White-crowned Sparrow 2
Song Sparrow 1
Spotted Towhee 10, see Bird of the Day
Red-winged Blackbird 8
Western Meadowlark 4
Common Grackle 2
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
American Goldfinch 4

Baseline Reservoir, Boulder, Colorado, US
 Apr 22, 2017 9:15 AM - 9:35 AM
Eastern Phoebe ©Steve Frye

Protocol: Stationary
20 species

Gadwall 20
Mallard 30
Blue-winged Teal 8
Green-winged Teal 4
Bufflehead 4
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Killdeer 1
Baird's Sandpiper 3
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Red-Winged Blackbird ©Neal Zaun

Franklin's Gull 20
Northern Flicker 1
Blue Jay 2
Black-billed Magpie 3
American Crow 1
Violet-green Swallow 200
Barn Swallow 20
Song Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 4
Common Grackle 6

Sombrero Marsh & Pond, Boulder, Colorado, US
 Apr 22, 2017 9:40 AM - 10:05 AM
Protocol: Traveling
Standing Guard: Yellow-Headed and Red-Winged Blackbirds  ©Steve Frye

0.2 mile(s)
22 species

Canada Goose 6
Gadwall 30
Mallard 20
Blue-winged Teal 12
Cinnamon Teal 2
Northern Shoveler 50
Great Blue Heron 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2, One dead on a power pole.
American Coot 20
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove 20
Black-billed Magpie 2
Tree Swallow 8
American Robin 4
American Robin ©Steve Frye

European Starling 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Song Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 12
Yellow-headed Blackbird 5
Common Grackle 2
House Finch 4
House Sparrow 2

Boulder Creek--75th St., Boulder, Colorado, US
 Apr 22, 2017 10:15 AM - 10:50 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.25 mile(s)
19 species
Sleeping Racoon ©Steve Frye

Great Blue Heron 3
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
American Kestrel 2
Black Phoebe 1
Eastern Phoebe 1, this pair of phoebes seem to be building a nest together
Blue Jay 2
Black-billed Magpie 1
Black-capped Chickadee 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
House Wren 1
American Robin 2
European Starling 8
Song Sparrow 1
Red-winged Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 4
House Finch 2
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Total species seen:  48
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Doudy Draw ©Steve Frye

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Sun and Clouds ©Clark Anderson







Eldorado Canyon from Doudy Draw ©Steve Frye


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