Morning Birding Species List | September 10, 2013

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Throughout the summer months ACES offers weekly Morning Birding classes at their Hallam Lake site in Aspen and Rock Bottom Ranch site in Basalt. Class outings venture to local birding hotspots and the birds never fail to impress. Take a look at the below species list and notes from one of the recent classes in Aspen and register today for upcoming birding classes, which run through September!

Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 7 AM – 10 AM
Weather:  partly cloudy
Locations: Hallam Lake and North Star Nature Preserve

Species Identified
Canada Goose Mallard Great Blue Heron Red-tailed Hawk Spotted Sandpiper Mourning Dove Hreat Horned Owl Belted Kingfisher Downy Woodpecker (pictured above) Northern Flicker Clark’s Nutcracker Black-billed Magpie		American Crow Black-capped Chickadee Mountain Chickadee Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Mountain Bluebird American Robin Cedar Waxwing Yellow-rumped Warbler Chipping Sparrow House Finch Pine Siskin

Comments:  Great birding on a drizzly day with beautiful low clouds!  Good challenges now include juveniles and non-breeding plumages on adults.  Clark’s Nutcrackers are seen lately in small flocks in montane forest and shrubland.  Fall migration activity is making birding this month spectacular!

~Rebecca Weiss, ACES Naturalist