Re: [cobirds] Ring in the New with "Lafayette Birds!"—tomorrow, Sun., Jan. 5, 2025

I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be a birdy day. This morning when I was returning home from a neighbor's house, I flushed a flock of more than 100 robins feeding vigorously in junipers and our crabapple. This weather may finally be pushing birds south.

Chuck Hundertmark

Lafayette

On Jan 4, 2025, at 8:26 PM, Ted Floyd <tedfloyd73@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey, everybody.

Our first "Lafayette Birds!" outing of the new year will be held tomorrow afternoon, Sun., Jan. 5, 2025. It will be humid and chilly at our start time of 1pm, but we will have a wonderful excursion afield—surely a better time than if we were doing anything indoors. So please join us. Besides, it won't be *quite* as miserable as it was this bleak Sat. afternoon, Jan. 4, downright cold with flurries, graupel, and, despite the dense freezing fog and unrelenting dreariness, this luminous white-throated sparrow doing its darndest to brighten the afternoon:

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On tomorrow's "Lafayette Birds!" outing, we will search for the white-throated sparrow and the many other cool birds that have been found at Greenlee & environs in the past week: bushtit, hooded merganser, Townsend solitaire, merlin, northern shrike, and others.

Join us for good birds, great company, and holiday cheer—for real! Tomorrow is still Christmastide. In fact, it's the Twelfth Night. Hannah Floyd and I will have candy canes and a chocolate Christmas tree for the first person who finds the white-throated sparrow.

We get underway at 1pm MST tomorrow, Sun., Jan. 5, 2025, at The Shack at Greenlee Wildlife Preserve in Lafayette. This activity, sponsored by the City of Lafayette, is free and open to the public. Dress warm. Bring thermoses full of hot apple cider. As always, children, families, and curiosity-seekers welcome. No experience necessary. No whining.

See you tomorrow!

Ted Floyd 
Lafayette, Boulder Co.

P. s. Hoarfrost at the preserve earlier this afternoon, brrr:

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