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Saturday Bird Walk & Bird Count − February 3, 2018
Partly cloudy and cool. 35°F. 2-8 mph. 16 participants.

Many of the birds we found were hard to see this morning. Look at the slide show for our great
Great Horned Owl  ©Steve Frye
horned owl images, for example. The one at Twin Lakes we could only see part of its face through a crack in the tree hollow and the other one we spotted along Left Hand Creek was in such a tangle it took about 10 minutes for all of us to find it.

          Photographs from February 3, 2018 Wild Bird Company Saturday Morning Bird Walk
       
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White-Crowned Sparrows
©Eileen Rutherford
White-Crowned Sparrow
©Jane Baryames
                 












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Bird of the Day
Northern Goshawk −
Accipiter gentilis
  

   
 
 
 
   
  
 
   
I almost drove away from our Bird of the Day this morning. I was just pulling away when I looked in my rear view mirror and saw several Saturday Birders looking intensely up into a
Northern Goshawk  ©Neal Zaun
tree. I backed up and Esther showed me the screen on the back of her camera - a Northern Goshawk! It perched up in the tree for a few minutes and then took off through the trees and up the creek. A thrilling look at an uncommon bird.

All About Birds, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology:
 Bird Count: Saturday, February 3, 2018

 
Twin Lakes (Boulder County), Boulder, Colorado, US
Sat Jan 20, 2018 7:45 AM - 9:00 AM           
Dark-Eyed Junco ©Kevin Rutherford
Protocol: Traveling
1.25 mile(s)
17 species

Canada Goose 40
Mallard 30
Common Merganser 20
Ring-billed Gull 2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 2
Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
Great Horned Owl 1, peeking through a flicker hole
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) 2
Blue Jay 1
Mallard  ©Jane Baryames

American Crow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
American Robin 1
Red-winged Blackbird 30
House Finch 2


Golden Pond Park and Nature Area,
Boulder, Colorado, US
Feb 3, 2018 9:10 AM - 10:05 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
17 species

Canada Goose 20
Eurasian Collared-Doves
©Esther Brady

Mallard 4
Common Goldeneye 1
Ring-billed Gull 4
Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
American Kestrel 2
Blue Jay 1
Black-billed Magpie 1
Black-capped Chickadee 1
European Starling 4
American Tree Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 4
White-crowned Sparrow 14
Song Sparrow 1
House Finch 2
House Sparrow 1


Left Hand Creek at Nimbus Rd, Boulder, Colorado, US
Feb 3, 2018 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Northern Flicker  ©Jane Baryames

Protocol: Traveling
0.25 mile(s)
12 species (+1 other taxa)

Northern Goshawk 1, see Bird of the Day
Bald Eagle 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Ferruginous Hawk 1
Great Horned Owl 1
Black-billed Magpie 1
Common Raven 2
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Dark-eyed Junco 2
     Dark-eyed Junco (Pink-sided) 1
White-crowned Sparrow 1
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 1
Canada Geese ©Steve Frye


Boulder Reservoir complex--Coot Lake,
Boulder, Colorado, US
Feb 3, 2018 10:55 AM - 11:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.1 mile(s)
6 species

Cackling Goose 30
Ring-necked Duck 10
Common Merganser 2
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Saturday Birders  ©Eileen Rutherford

Ring-billed Gull 2
American Kestrel 1

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          Total species seen: 32
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Long's Peak ©Neal Zaun






Golden Ponds Park and Nature Area  ©Esther Brady





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