Birding By Habitat Species List | June 26, 2017

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Monday, June 26, 2017, 7:00AM – 12:00AM
Weather: sunny
Location: Hallam Lake, Aspen Grove Cemetery, Ute Cemetery, Sunnyside Trail, private residence in Woody Creek, Ziegler Reservoir

Species Identified
Canada Goose Gadwall Mallard Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Osprey (pictured above) Bald Eagle Cooper’s Hawk American Coot Spotted Sandpiper Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared-Dove Black-chinned Hummingbird Broad-tailed Hummingbird Lewis’s Woodpecker Red-naped Sapsucker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker		Dusky Flycatcher Cordilleran Flycatcher Warbling Vireo Steller’s Jay Black-billed Magpie American Crow Common Raven Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher American Dipper Ruby-crowned Kinglet Mountain Bluebird American Robin Cedar Waxwing Virginia’s Warbler		MacGillivray’s Warbler Yellow Warbler Green-tailed Towhee Spotted Towhee Chipping Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln’s Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Black-headed Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird Cassin’s Finch House Finch Pine Siskin Evening Grosbeak

Comments:

Today’s destinations took us to the following Montane habitats: riparian, cottonwood riverbottom, conifer forest, aspen forest, mountain shrubland, and oak shrubland. Highlights of the day included a visit to a large heronry in the Woody Creek area with many active nests, a pair of ospreys at Hallam Lake, a female Black-chinned Hummingbird in cottonwoods along the Roaring Fork River, Lewis’s Woodpeckers in Woody Creek, and a visit to Ziegler Reservoir with guest visit by Tom Cardamone. At Ziegler Reservoir we explored the Pleistocene habitats that once existed at that site and the avifauna that were documented by the Snowmastodon Dig. Tom explained that fossils recovered by the dig included a rosy finch, a crane, a wading/shorebird, four species of ducks, and a goose. This provided a unique habitat experience as part of our series. Join us for more excellent birding and special access on July 6th for the final outing in this series, covering habitats from North Star Nature Preserve to the top of Independence Pass!

~ Rebecca Weiss, ACES Bird Guide 

 

Photo by Dale Armstrong