Morning Birding Species List | June 12, 2018

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Tuesday, June 12, 2018, 6:30AM – 9:30AM
Weather: Sunny
Location: Hallam Lake and private residence east of North Star Nature Preserve

Species Identified

Canada Goose Mallard Broad-tailed Hummingbird Spotted Sandpiper Cordilleran Flycatcher Warbling Vireo Black-billed Magpie American Crow Tree Swallow Violet-green Swallow Brown Creeper House Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet American Robin Cedar Waxwing Pine Siskin Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Western Meadowlark Brown-headed Cowbird Yellow Warbler

Comments: 

Today’s highlights included an excellent swallow study with Tree and Violet-green Swallows feeding at low, close range as well as perched for great views of plumage colors in excellent light. We observed behaviors of nesting swallow pairs at nest boxes.  We also observed young goslings and ducklings in fluffy yellow down and discussed these ‘precocial’ species. We also observed active nests of Brown Creeper and Cedar Waxwing. A Western Meadowlark east of North Star Nature Preserve was an especially unusual sighting for the high elevation. Join us next week at Rock Bottom Ranch, meeting in the RBR parking lot at 6:30AM!

~ Rebecca Weiss, ACES Bird Guide 

Photo by Dale Armstrong