Morning Birding at Rock Bottom Ranch Species List | July 9, 2019

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Tuesday, July 9, 2019, 7AM – 10AM
Weather: Sunny
Location: Rock Bottom Ranch

Species Identified

Canada Goose Mallard  Rock Pigeon Broad-tailed Hummingbird Wilson’s Snipe Turkey Vulture Osprey Cooper’s Hawk  Belted Kingfisher Lewis’s Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker American Kestrel Cordilleran Flycatcher Black-billed Magpie American Crow Common Raven Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Black-capped Chickadee House Wren American Robin Gray Catbird European Starling American Goldfinch Song Sparrow Yellow-headed Blackbird – flew over parking lot Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Yellow Warbler Black-headed Grosbeak

Comments:

It was a beautiful, cool morning at Rock Bottom Ranch. We warmed up as the bright sun came over the distant ridge. After a mini-lesson on the Red-winged blackbird’s nesting habitat and chick-rearing, we were greeted by an immature red-winged and its mother in the first bush along the path. Other morning highlights included watching four Wilson’s Snipes flying up & out of the meadow’s wetlands and a Cooper’s Hawk perched in a cottonwood right where Sandy, an ACES’ regular birder, mentioned seeing many birds a month ago. We deducted that the hawk knew where to find his breakfast easily!

~ Liz Bokram, ACES Morning Birder

 

Photo by Dale Armstrong