Here are the winning Photos!

For the 2nd year in a row Phil Lyon has snagged First Place honors with this cute look of a young fox cub. It captured the hearts of the majority of our voters.

Phil and his wife were actually looking for reported Bald Eagles north of Silverthorn, Colorado. After an exhaustive search for the elusive raptors, Phil spotted a family of foxes playing along side the road. With a little photographer luck, one of the fox pups posed just the right amount of time for Phil. Giving up on Eagles, Phil was quick with the shutter and got the curious expression, one not easily forgotten.

Phil is a 4th Grade teacher at Red Rocks Elementary school in Morrison, Colorado. His students love his passion for nature and he certainly shares it with them. He will use the entire 1st place $200 prize of Wild Delight birdseed to stock the feeders outside their school windows.

We congratulate Phil Lyon for winning 1st place in the 2011 FRBC Photo Contest jointly sponsored with the Wild Delight Birdseed Company.

Lee and his wife Linda are avid birders and live close to the the Front Range Birding Store. However, their passion for birds and photography take them far and wide across the Colorado landscape. Lee loves to give back to the birding community and is a huge supporter of the Audubon Society of Greater Denver (ASGD) and actively volunteers his time for the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (RMBO).

Much of Lee's RMBO volunteer time is helping to monitor the colonial bird nest sites in and around Walden, CO. Lee was able to catch this Eared Grebe mom with new born babies taking a ride on her back.

Visit Lee Farrell's smugmug website Lee's Big Picture for more fantastic photos of birds, wild life and majestic places. You will be amazed!

Congratulations to Lee for his 2nd place photo. His effort is rewarded with $100 of Wild Delight birdseed.

Deb actively supports wild birds in her back yard and travels at every opportunity to see and photograph birds of all types in the wild. She was rewarded early last spring when she happened on a Great Horned Owl nest of Mom and 2 young chicks about ready to fledge.

Thanks Deb, your photo wins 3rd Place and $75 worth of Wild Delight birdseed.

Deb is very conscientious and has donated her entire prize Wild Delight seed to the Wild Bird Rehab organization in Aurora, CO.

The good folks at Wild Bird Rehab do incredible work helping to rescue and return injured birds to the wild. Their work is daunting and expensive however.

For more information on how you can help this great endeavor visit them at http://www.wildbirdrehab.com/Wild_B.I.R.D./Home.html

Sport Birding with the Front Range Birding Company - Get out there!

Check out all the trips, walks, and talks that we support and endorse below. We have done the research and these are the best!

Please join me this March 3rd from 9 to noon for a late winter/early spring bird walk at Hudson Gardens located at 6115 South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton.

Hudson Gardens is committed to preserving natural Colorado habitat and have many native plants that attract a wide variety of bird species. They are also conveniently located right on the South Platte river and we will explore the varying habitats, ponds, and a good portion of the river. Flora and Fauna abound in this beautiful urban oasis.

Recent sightings include Hooded Merganser, Common Golden Eye, Buffelhead, Great Blue Heron, and Snow Goose. This "Duck Walk" should get some early returning migrants as well. Expect the unexpected at Hudson Gardens!

Registration required. There is a $8 fee ($5 Hudson Gardens member) with all proceeds going to the support Hudson Gardens. Call Hudson Gardens to sign up at 303.797.8565. Space is limited.

For more information on the many programs to include weddings and concerts visit Hudson Gardens at: http://www.hudsongardens.org/

WALK THE WETLANDS of Chatfield State. This very popular walk always is full of surprises.

Walk the Wetlands are normally scheduled for the first Sunday of every month. Winter walks are:

1. Sunday February 5, 2012 9:00 AM - Noon
2. Sunday March 4, 2012 9:00 AM - Noon

LEADERS: Hugh & Urling Kingery (303-814-2723) and other Master Birders

Pre-registration is NOT required. Meet in the parking lot at the Audubon Center at Chatfield. The Audubon Center is located on Waterton Road, 4.4 miles south of C-470 and Wadsworth.

We now support master birder Joey Kellner with his Chatfield State Park walks the last Saturday of January, February and March from 8 am till noon.

Joey Kellner began birding as a teenager (many years ago) and has served as president of the Denver Field Ornithologists (DFO), Joey is a naturalist, sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm of not only birds, but reptiles, amphibians, mammals, butterflies, etc. Joey has been leading monthly bird walks at Chatfield State Park for over 13 years.

Joey's Chatfied State Park bird walks are scheduled for 4 hours, but participants are welcome to leave whenever they need to. We will look for birds in a number of locations inside the park. Meet inside Chatfield State Park at the Platte River parking lot (just east of Kingfisher Bridge.) No reservations necessary, just show up! Bring binoculars and scope if you have. Please no pets or small children.

September 9 to 14 the Front Range Birding Company joins with the Audubon Society of Greater Denver and the Partnership for International Birding to offer you a trip of a lifetime.

Northern California is one of the few places in the United States where mountains, marshland, deep forest, open ocean and arid grassland exist within a short drive of one another. You can find birds that nest above the Arctic Circle and migrate south in the same area as birds that breed in Mexico and migrate north.

We will bird the exotic areas of Lake Merced, Golden Gate Park and Land's End in San Francisco, Point Reyes National Seashore, the Sierra Foothills, Big Sur, and Monterrey Bay. A Pelagic Extension with Shearwaters Journeys is also available.

The plethora of unique and lifer sightings will certainly be earmarked with the likes of California Condors and Sooty Shearwaters not to mention Humpback Whales, and Giant Sequoias. See a full list of possibilities here at PIBirding.com.

The basic land cost for the trip is estimated to be just $1,390 per person. A portion of the proceeds will directly benefit the ASGD. For full details of the trip to include pricing, lodging, guide information, itinerary, and expected sightings visit www.pibrd.com.

There are many other trips offered through our Partnership with International Birding.

Pure raw local honey.

Great taste and a healthy choice from Colorado.

This honey is all natural and straight from our hives located at Jared's Garden Center in Littleton.

We are also in contact with other local beekeepers for access to their honey crops as well. Currently we feature 3 types of honey: Sweet Clover from the plains, Alfalfa, and a popular "stout" from a mystery flower near Red Rocks Park .

Also now available is our very own hogback Honey "Healing lotion and lip gloss" made from natural oils and wax right from our hives at Jared's Garden Center.

Check out the Jared's Nursery bees in action here at Front Range Birding on Youtube.

Check with us for availability. Enjoy!

HawkQuest, the Art and Craft Fair, Food, Fire Trucks, AirLife helicopter, Bar-B-Q, Music, and of course over 100 doves all return!

It promises to be a great Mother's Day treat. We hope you can make it.

Enjoy all nature has to offer!

Come in for our 20 percent off anything birds eat sale and celebrate February as National Bird Feeding Month.

Tom, Sara, Diane, Shannon, Dave, Jennifer, Esther, and Megan