I was without my car Fri-Sun and decided to just see what I could find on foot
from my house in eastern Fort Collins. I went on a big walk yesterday
basically between Mulberry (n), Prospect (s), Riverside (e) and Stover (w).
Today I walked east to the Poudre River at Lemay and Mulberry, north behind the
Mulberry water treatment facility (where Cole Wild had the Northern Waterthrush
on a CBC a few years back), then southeast along the river bike trails to Sharp
Point and back home.
Highlights:
Yellow-rumped Warbler (1 f Myrtle) my yard
Townsend's Solitaire (1) my yard
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (1 f) my yard
American Dipper (1) Poudre River at the Call Box north of the Orthopedic
Clinic (big cutbank where kingfishers nest, trail splits, river bends).
Cackling Goose (over 100, I think of 3 subspecies: leucopareia (few),
hutchinsii (most) and minima (one))
Hairy Woodpecker (1m)
Gadwall (30!) sometimes hard to come by here in winter
Herring Gull (1)
White-breasted Nuthatch (at least 4, all "interior")
Great Blue Heron (1)
Breeding Activity:
House Finches (singing)
Black-billed Magpie ("singing" and nest building)
Eurasian Collared-Dove (courtship calls)
Rock Dove (courtship strutting atop a big power pole - don't try this at home)
Dark-eyed Junco (singing, I think "slate-colored" subsp.)
American Dipper (singing under a river cutbank)
Red-tailed Hawk (courtship flights, 1 pair)
Great Horned Owl (hooting at night, possibly male announcing egg hatch?)
Song Sparrow (two different birds singing)
Total of 40 spp.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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