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Saturday Bird Walk & Bird Count − January 6, 2018
Cloudy and cool. 20-35°F. 2-8 mph. 7 participants.

We had some good duck time this morning down on Boulder Creek. Other open water in the
Gadwall ©Steve Frye
county is hard to find which concentrates waterfowl on the few open reservoirs, ponds, and creeks. The drawback for us was that being along the creek is also where you find moist cold air drainage.

          Photographs from January 6, 2018 Wild Bird Company Saturday Morning Bird Walk
       
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Common Goldeneye ©Neal Zaun
American Kestrel  ©Kevin Rutherford












                                 
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Green-Winged Teal ©Kevin Rutherford
I usually think of teal as being rather skittish, but because of the lack of open water, we got some good looks at green-winged teal, hooded mergansers, gadwall, and mallards. I often know green-winged teal are about because of their high-pitched creee call. It is not a very duck-like sound (hear their call on the links below). We have a handful of green-winged teal that overwinter, the other teal, blue-winged and cinnamon, go further south.

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House Finches  ©Eileen Rutherford
 Bird Count: Saturday, January 6, 2018


Boulder Creek--75th St., Boulder, Colorado, US
Sat Jan 6, 2018  7:45 AM - 10:05 AM
Belted Kingfisher ©Kevin Rutherford
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
33 species (+1 other taxa)

Cackling Goose 1
Canada Goose 40
     Cackling/Canada Goose 200
Northern Shoveler 14
Gadwall 6
American Wigeon 1
Mallard 30
Green-winged Teal 6, see Bird of the Day
Common Goldeneye 2
Hooded Merganser 6
Ruby-Crowned Kinglet
©Kevin Rutherford

Double-crested Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 2
Bald Eagle 3
Red-tailed Hawk 3
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 40
Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
Belted Kingfisher 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 2
American Kestrel 1
Blue Jay 8
Black-billed Magpie 2
Black-capped Chickadee 10
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
Brown Creeper 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Townsend's Solitaire 1
Great Blue Heron ©Steve Frye

European Starling 20
Dark-eyed Junco 5
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 2
Red-winged Blackbird 30
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 16


Valmont Reservoir Complex, Boulder, Colorado, US
 Jan 6, 2018 10:15 AM - 10:22 AM
Protocol: Stationary
Hooded Merganser ©Neal Zaun

9 species (+1 other taxa)

Canada Goose 20
Mallard 20
Common Goldeneye 10
Common Merganser 10
     duck sp. 60
Red-tailed Hawk 3
American Coot 200
Black-billed Magpie 1
Townsend's Solitaire 1
European Starling 8

White-Breasted Nuthatch
©Kevin Rutherford
Mallard ©Neal Zaun







              

     



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                                                  Total species seen: 35
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