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Saturday Bird Walk & Bird Count − July 15, 2017
Partly cloudy, warm, and muggy (Colorado Standards). 70-80°F.
2-8 mph. 16 participants.

Snowy Egret ©Kevin Rutherford
Our first choice for bird watching this morning (South Mesa Trail) met us with an overly full parking lot, so we regrouped and went over to Walden and Sawhill Ponds where we found parking spaces and some great birds and other things. The snowy egrets were busy dancing around catching fish and the mallards were showing their eclipse plumage.
  Photographs from July 15, 2017 Wild Bird Company
                Saturday  Morning Bird Walk
      
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Belted Kingfisher ©Neal Zaun
Tree Swallow Nestlings  ©Steve Frye

        









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Bird of the Day
Black-Crowned Night-Heron
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Nycticorax nycticorax

 
We had two cooperative immature black-crowned night-herons this morning up close in
Black-Crowned Night-Heron
©Neal Zaun
Cottonwood Marsh. They presented quite a contrast to the frenetic hunting style of their cousins, the snowy egrets. Black-crowned night-herons are stealth hunters, waiting patiently for prey to come close and sometimes moving very slowly to advance to better hunting. They appear short necked, but when they strike, you can see the true length of their neck. (see slide show)
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds:

Black-Crowned Night-Heron
©Steve Frye

Audubon, Guide to North American Birds:

Black-Crowned Night Heron Images from past Wild Bird Company Walks:  Black-Crowned Night-Heron

Bird Count: Saturday, July 15, 2017


Walden & Sawhill Ponds Wildlife Habitats,
Boulder, CO-US

Eastern Kingbird with a Dragonfly ©Kevin Rutherford

July 15, 2017  
8:05 AM - 10:50 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
39 species

Canada Goose 40
Mallard 12
Double-crested Cormorant 1
American White Pelican 1
Great Blue Heron 6
Snowy Egret 3, actively feeding
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2, see Bird of the Day
Osprey 4, nest with ready-to-fledge young
Killdeer 8
Spotted Sandpiper 2
Red-Winged Blackbird ©Steve Frye

Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 30
Eurasian Collared-Dove 1
Mourning Dove 8
Belted Kingfisher 1
Downy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 4
Western Wood-Pewee 1
Eastern Kingbird 8
Warbling Vireo 2
Blue Jay 1
Black-billed Magpie 1
Tree Swallow 8, nest with more ready-to-fledge young
Barn Swallow 6
Osprey Nest ©Clark Anderson

Cliff Swallow 2
Black-capped Chickadee 4
House Wren 6
American Robin 2
Gray Catbird 1
Common Yellowthroat 2
Yellow Warbler 4
Yellow-breasted Chat 4
Song Sparrow 2
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Common Grackle 4
Great-tailed Grackle 1
Brown-headed Cowbird 4
Bullock's Oriole 1
House Finch 4
American Goldfinch 8

Ant Carrying a Seed Pod
©Steve Frye
American Goldfinch ©Steve Frye














Blue-Eyed Darner ©Kevin Rutherford
Halloween Pennant ©Neal Zaun












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Total species seen:  39
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