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Saturday Bird Walk - Bird Count - Oct 17, 2015
Sunny and pleasant. 60°F. 2-5 mph. 11 participants.
Despite the chill in the air and the smell of fallen leaves, summer is hanging on as strongly as it
can. The bullfrogs were all out sunny themselves and we still had dragonflies and butterflies sailing around us this morning.                     
                                     
                                     View Photo Gallery                    View Slide Show
Bird of the Day: White-Crowned Sparrow,
Zonotrichia leucophrys
White-Crowned Sparrow
©Kevin Rutherford

The white-crowned sparrows are coming through right now. Some have only travelled from alpine habitat in Boulder County, however, others are coming from as far away as Alaska. The birds in the slide show have pale supralorals and gray chests and flanks which means they are the subspecies from the Pacific Northwest including Alaska and British Columbia. The lores of a bird are located between the eye and the beak and the supraloral area is located just above that, between the lores and the eyebrow in other words. Birds that nest in the alpine of Boulder County have dark supralorals.

Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds:
White-Crowned Sparrow

BirdFellow:   White-Crowned Sparrow

Youtube Video by Woodfibrebirder:  White-Crowned Sparrow
Bird Count:  Saturday, October 17, 2015

White Rocks Trail area - Boulder, Colorado, US
American White Pelican
©Kevin Rutherford
Oct 17, 2015 7:45 AM - 9:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
37 species

Canada Goose 20
Wood Duck 2
Gadwall 12  Mallard 10
Pied-billed Grebe 2
Double-crested Cormorant 2
American White Pelican 7
Great Blue Heron 2
Cooper's Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 2
American Coot 1
Killdeer 1
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Ring-billed Gull 5
American Kestrel ©Kevin Rutherford

Eurasian Collared-Dove 1

Mourning Dove 3
Great Horned Owl 1
Belted Kingfisher 2
Downy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 4
American Kestrel 2
Blue Jay 3
Black-billed Magpie 6
American Crow 20
Black-capped Chickadee 4
Red-breasted Nuthatch 1
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
American Robin 2
European Starling 16
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Dark-eyed Junco 1
White-crowned Sparrow 12, see Bird of the Day
Song Sparrow 2
Red-winged Blackbird 4
 
American Bullfrog ©Kevin Rutherford 

Common Grackle 2
House Finch 6
American Goldfinch 2
 
Teller Farm & Lakes, Boulder, Colorado, US
Oct 17, 2015 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.5 mile(s)
33 species

Canada Goose 6
Gadwall 8
Mallard 10
Blue-winged Teal 6
Lesser Scaup 1
Bufflehead 1
Gadwall ©Kevin Rutherford

Pied-billed Grebe 20
American White Pelican 33
Great Blue Heron 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Coot 1
Killdeer 1
Long-billed Dowitcher 1
Ring-billed Gull 20
Eurasian Collared-Dove 1
Northern Flicker 2
Blue Jay 2
Black-billed Magpie 6
American Crow 8
Black-capped Chickadee 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
American Robin 1
European Starling 20
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Showy Milkweed ©Jack Klase

White-crowned Sparrow 14, see Bird of the Day
Song Sparrow 3
Red-winged Blackbird 6
Western Meadowlark 2
Brewer's Blackbird 10
Common Grackle 2
House Finch 2
American Goldfinch 1
House Sparrow 6
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Total species seen:  44             
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Teller Farms ©Clark Anderson
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