[cobirds] First Sunday Birding at Walden Ponds, Boulder

Hi All,

 

Joel and I led the Boulder Bird Club/Boulder County Audubon First Sunday Birding outing at Walden Ponds this morning.  The weather, birding, and 40+ participants were all quite pleasant, and we tallied 56 species.  Trip list below.  Please forgive the archaic taxonomic order, just copying off of the checklist.

 

Pied-billed Grebe

American White Pelican

Double-crested Cormorant

Great Blue Heron

GREEN HERON - Possibly two.  One flew across Cottonwood Marsh while we were making announcement, and another was seen extremely well later in the day.

Canada Goose

Mallard

Northern Shoveler

Gadwall

American Wigeon

Redhead

Sharp-shinned Hawk - One seen briefly by a few people along the Boulder Creek Path behind the water treatment plant.

Red-tailed Hawk

American Coot

Killdeer

American Avocet - Two flyovers on the Sawhill side.

Spotted Sandpiper

Rock Pigeon

Mourning Dove

Eurasian Collared-Dove

Belted Kingfisher

Downy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Western Wood-Pewee

Cordilleran Flycatcher - Down on Boulder Creek.

Say's Phoebe

Eastern Kingbird

Tree Swallow

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Bank Swallow

Cliff Swallow

Barn Swallow

Blue Jay

Black-billed Magpie

American Crow

Common Raven

White-breasted Nuthatch

House Wren

American Robin

Cedar Waxwing

European Starling

Warbling Vireo - Both EASTERN and Western subspecies.

Yellow Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Blue Grosbeak

Song Sparrow

Red-winged Blackbird

Western Meadowlark

Yellow-headed Blackbird

Great-tailed Grackle

Common Grackle

Bullock's Oriole

BULLOCK'S X BALTIMORE ORIOLE - One adult male on the backside of Sawhill Ponds.

House Finch

American Goldfinch

House Sparrow

 

NO Marsh Wrens, which really surprised us.

 

Also, stopped at the McConnell Drive-Saint Vrain River bridge afterwards.  The Eastern Phoebe reported by Steve Mlodinow wasn't seen, but it is likely still in the area (our stop was extremely brief).  We did have it singing yesterday evening (about 5:30 pm) just downstream of the bridge.  This is the second Eastern Phoebe we have had at this location, the first was a one-minute wonder in May of 2009.

Marcel Such
NW of Lyons, CO
mpsuch@gmail.com

suchbros.blogspot.com

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