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Saturday Bird Walk & Bird Count − June 24, 2017
Mostly cloudy, hazy, but pleasant. 65°F. 2-8 mph. 26 participants.
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Yellow Warbler
©Neal Zaun
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On Saturdays, we try not to get too focused on target birds. It creates a scenario whereby you overlook other species in your quest to find the one. Also, it can be a setup for disappointment. Today, however, we found our target bird and many more too! I also included some images of a black witch on the slide show that I discovered while making a seed delivery later on Saturday afternoon.
Photographs from June 24, 2017 Wild Bird Company
Saturday
Morning Bird Walk
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Bird of the Day
I'm not sure what is going well with our local grasslands or what is going poorly in other places, but we have a lot of grassland birds here this summer. When we found our target bird, the dickcissel, we also found two other uncommon grassland birds for Boulder County, the
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Dickcissel ©Steve Frye
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bobolink and the lark bunting. The funny name, dickcissel, is derived from its occasional gruff three-part call which can sound somewhat like dick-cis-sel. Books often refer to the dickcissel as a house sparrow-like bird because of its size and heavy beak, but I think of them more as a mini meadowlark (at least their chest markings and color look meadowlark-like).
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds:
Audubon, Guide to North American Birds:
Dickcissel
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Bird Count: Saturday, June 24, 2017
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Eastern Kingbird ©Steve Frye
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June 24, 2017
7:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
42 species
Mallard 2
Pied-billed Grebe 5
Great Blue Heron 2
Turkey Vulture 1
Red-tailed Hawk 3
American Coot 4
Killdeer 1
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Western Kingbird ©Neal Zaun
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Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 2
Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
Mourning Dove 6
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Western Wood-Pewee 2
Western Kingbird 2
Eastern Kingbird 2
Warbling Vireo 4
Blue Jay 1
Black-billed Magpie 3
Barn Swallow 2
Cliff Swallow 100
Black-capped Chickadee 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
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Western Wood-Pewee at Nest
©Neal Zaun
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White-breasted Nuthatch 1
House Wren 10
American Robin 4
European Starling 4
Yellow Warbler 6
Lark Bunting 1
Song Sparrow 1
Dickcissel 8, see Bird of the Day
Bobolink 3
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Western Meadowlark 3
Yellow-headed Blackbird 12
Common Grackle 8
Great-tailed Grackle 4
Brown-headed Cowbird 6
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Yellow-Headed Blackbird
©Jane Baryames
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Bullock's Oriole 6
House Finch 2
Lesser Goldfinch 1
American Goldfinch 4
House Sparrow 1
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Total species seen: 53
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Resources and Quick Links
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Prickly Poppy ©Clark Anderson
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Visit our Colorado Birding Resources page for updated information on Colorado wild birds.
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Showy Milkweed ©Steve Frye
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Saturday Birders - Boulder, CO
©Steve Frye
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Meet for Sat Morning Bird Walks
From 7:30 am (promptly) to 10 am
Meet at Wild Bird Company
1641 - 28th St., Boulder, CO
(303) 442-1322
Every Saturday Year-Round!
No reservations required. Every last Saturday of the month we travel further afield than normal and return a little later. Bird Walk locations are determined on the morning of the walk. All ages and birding abilities are welcome!
--Thanks, Steve
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