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Saturday Bird Walk & Bird Count − September 30, 2017
Partly cloudy with patches of dense fog. 45-60°F. 2-8 mph. 10 participants.

Bald Eagle ©Neal Zaun


The fog this morning was so thick and it moved like a living creature. At one point, we stopped to watch an immature bald eagle on top of a power pole. The eagle was in the sun briefly and then the fog rolled in from the east and swallowed us. In a minute we went from sun on the eagle to barely being able to make out its form on top of the pole. See slide show. We continued on to Rabbit Mountain for some raptor watching. The Little Thompson Overlook on the back side of Rabbit Mountain is one of the best raptor watching spots in the county because of the ridges to the north. If the wind is from the east or north, the ridge gives the birds some olographic lift and they then ride those winds right over to Rabbit Mountain.





Bald Eagle in the Fog  ©Steve Frye

Photographs from September 30, 2017 Wild Bird  Company  Saturday  Morning Bird Walk
       
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Bird of the Day
     
Cooper's Hawk −
Accipiter cooperii

 
  
   
 
Cooper's Hawk from 01.09.16 Walk
©Kevin Rutherford

Our traditional day of the year to go hawk watching is the last Saturday of September. Hawk watching is a subset of bird watching which consists of hiking up on a ridge and then waiting for the birds to come to you. They often pass quite high and you only see a speck in the sky. A version of birding that I like to call 'dot birding'. It is amazing how much and how well really good hawk watchers can identify 'dots'. It's not everyone's cup of birding tea, but it is fun to try once in a while. Cooper's Hawks were the Dots of the Day today as we watched them cover the space between the ridge to the north of Rabbit Mountain and Rabbit Mountain itself. The winds were such this morning that the birds were not too high and several of the Coop's flew pretty close.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds:

Project FeederWatch (The Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Bird Studies Canada):   Sharp-shinned Hawk  and Cooper's Hawk

BirdFellow:  Cooper's Hawk

Audubon, Guide to North American Birds:   Cooper's Hawk

Cooper's Hawk Images from Past Wild Bird Company Walks:  Cooper's Hawk

Youtube Video by LabofOrnithology:  Soaring Cooper's Hawk
Bird Count: Saturday, September 30, 2017


Rogers Rd West
,
Boulder, Colorado, US

Sat Sep 30, 201 7:45 AM - 8:30 AM
White-Crowned Sparrows
©Steve Frye
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
14 species

Bald Eagle 1
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 40
Eurasian Collared-Dove 10
Blue Jay 2
Black-billed Magpie 1
Black-capped Chickadee 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 2
European Starling 10
Chipping Sparrow 8
White-crowned Sparrow 10
Vesper Sparrow 1
Western Meadowlark 2
White-Crowned Sparrow
©Jane Baryames

House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 20


Crane Hollow Road and Ponds, Boulder, Colorado, US
 Sep 30, 2017 8:35 AM - 8:55 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
8 species

Bald Eagle 1
Eurasian Collared-Dove 10
Mourning Dove 1
Blue Jay 1
Chipping Sparrow ©Jane Baryames

Mountain Chickadee 2
American Robin 4
European Starling 6
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2


St. Vrain River Crossing at 63rd St., Boulder, Colorado, US
 Sep 30, 2017 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.5 mile(s)
8 species

Great Blue Heron 1
Vesper Sparrow ©Steve Frye

Eurasian Collared-Dove 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Say's Phoebe 1
Blue Jay 1
Black-capped Chickadee 2
American Robin 4
European Starling 4


Rabbit Mountain, Boulder, Colorado, US
 Sep 30, 2017 9:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Protocol: Traveling
3.5 mile(s)
30 species (+2 other taxa)

Golden Eagle 1
Red-Tailed Hawk  ©Neal Zaun

Northern Harrier 1
Cooper's Hawk 5, see Bird of the Day
Bald Eagle 1
Broad-winged 
Red-tailed Hawk 4
Belted Kingfisher 1
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) 2
Prairie Falcon 1
Say's Phoebe 1
Steller's Jay (Interior) 1
Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay 2
Black-billed Magpie 3
Common Raven 4
American Goldfinches
©Jane Baryames

Barn Swallow 4
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Bushtit 2
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Rock Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 4
Townsend's Solitaire 3
American Robin 6
     warbler sp. (Parulidae sp.) 1
Chipping Sparrow 4
Dark-eyed Junco 3
     Dark-eyed Junco (Gray-headed) 2
Rock Wren ©Steve Frye

Spotted Towhee 6
Western Meadowlark 2
House Finch 2
Pine Siskin 1
American Goldfinch 1




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  Total species seen:  40
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