Wild Bird Center Saturday Bird Walks
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Every Saturday Morning

  - From 7:30 a.m. (promptly) to 10 am -     

 

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!

 

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  --Thanks, Steve   

 

 June 16, 2012  Mostly cloudy turning clear. 58°F. 17 participants.
binoculars and child Thanks to Bill Eeds for leading this morning's walk. Everyone enjoyed the cool morning. Remember those?

Chapman Dr. (Flagstaff Mountain)     
Jun 16, 2012,  7:40 AM - 10:10 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.5 mile(s)
22 species

Turkey Vulture  6
Broad-tailed Hummingbird  4
Downy Woodpecker (Rocky Mts.)  1
Plumbeous Vireo  1
Warbling Vireo  3
Black-billed Magpie  5
American Crow  2
Common Raven  8
Violet-green Swallow  2     Nesting at WBC
Mountain Chickadee  4
Red-breasted Nuthatch  4
House Wren  1
Townsend's Solitaire  2
American Robin  6
Yellow Warbler  1
Spotted Towhee (Rocky Mts.)  2
Chipping Sparrow  1
Dark-eyed Junco (Gray-headed)  8
Western Tanager  6     Singing in the open very close
Brown-headed Cowbird  1
Pine Siskin  3
Lesser Goldfinch  3
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Total species seen - 22
Note: Species in bold are birds that were special on the walk for reasons like a great view, out-of-season, great numbers, or rarity.
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Bird of the Day

Western Tanager


Photos taken on the 6/16/12 walk by Alison Sheets 

 

Although the Western Tanager is brightly colored, it can be a hard bird to spot. They spend  summers in our ponderosa forests often up high in the trees.

 

Cornell Lab of Ornothology, 

All About Birds:

Western Tanager 

   

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