the easiest birds to find and watch in such conditions. Most of the little birds are hiding, they will come out again when it turns to flurries or clears up. We added a couple of birders to our walk that we met out in the snow and some of the images on the slide show are from regular Saturday Birders, the Rutherfords, who took advantage of the weather to go find some raptors out near Longmont.
Photographs from February 10, 2018 Wild Bird Company Saturday Morning Bird Walk
everywhere you look. Their wings, their feet, their eyes and head, their sides, everywhere they have color, and to top it all off is that oversized long and wide black bill. Quite a collection! Females are more subtly colored in browns, but still with that preposterous bill. Watch my video on the link below to see the Northern Shovelers swirling behavior as they try to bring food up from the bottom of the pond by creating a vortex.
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