Birding By Habitat Species List | June 23, 2017

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Friday, June 23, 2017, 6:00AM – 12:00PM
Weather: sunny
Location: Rock Bottom Ranch, private ranch bordering The Crown BLM area, Lake Christine, private residence off Frying Pan Road, Spring Park Reservoir

Species Identified
Canada Goose Trumpeter Swan Mallard Lesser Scaup Eared Grebe Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Osprey Killdeer Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove Mourning Dove Black-chinned Hummingbird Broad-tailed Hummingbird Lewis’s Woodpecker (pictured above) Northern Flicker Cordilleran Flycatcher		Say’s Phoebe Plumbeous Vireo Clark’s Nutcracker Black-billed Magpie American Crow Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Red-breasted Nuthatch House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher American Dipper Ruby-crowned Kinglet Mountain Bluebird American Robin Gray Catbird European Starling		Cedar Waxwing Yellow Warbler Black-throated Gray Warbler Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee Chipping Sparrow Vesper Sparrow Song Sparrow Western Tanager Black-headed Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Bullock’s Oriole Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch

Comments:

This class focused on birding in various major habitats of the mid valley including oak shrubland, sagebrush shrubland, pinyon-juniper woodland, agricultural fields and pastures, cottonwood riparian, cattail marsh, wetland/pond, reservoir/open water, mixed shrubland, mixed forest, and aspen forest.  Highlights of the day were observing a female black-chinned hummingbird on her nest and preening in branches above it, a flock of more than twenty Clark’s Nutcrackers, Lewis’s Woodpeckers and their noisy brood in a nest cavity, Trumpeter Swans, and many opportunities to enhance skills at birding by ear. Forty-nine species were seen during this class. The next class in this series focuses on the Aspen and Snowmass Village vicinity, and will include a visit to a large heronry at a private residence and a visit to Ziegler Reservoir with guest Tom Cardamone to explore past, present, and future bird habitats as revealed through the Snowmastadon Dig,

~ Rebecca Weiss, ACES Bird Guide 

Photo by Dale Armstrong