How about another mangled literary mis-quote? February is the cruelest birding month!
I led a field trip today for the Boulder Audubon Society to the Peak-to-peak Highway area of Boulder County. Unfortunately the winds tried to blow us back; at one point a Boulder Open Space Ranger cautioned us about staying in the area. But we were there while the birds weren’t. Total haul for a couple of hours in the mountains—2 Mountain Chickadees, 1 Pygmy Nuthatch, 1 Steller’s Jay, a few American Crows and Common Raven and maybe a Pine Siskin and couple of Dark-eyed Juncos.
It only took us a couple of hours to wise up and make the descent back to Lyons where we found a Brown Creeper in the town park, and a decent haul in the town cemetery including 6 Western Scrub Jays and 2 Lesser Goldfinches. Everyone got on the lessers and we could compare them to an American in the same tree, so it was a nice learning experience.
One stop on the plains at McCaslin Lake turned up a few regular ducks for all to study.
Bill Kaempfer
Boulder
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