Cobirders,
The 20th annual Fountain Creek Regional Park Fall Bird Count took place yesterday morning. Twenty-four birders scanned the park for about 3 hours and found 66 species for the day and about 1381 birds. The numbers are lower than recent previous years, especially if I subtract the 448 European Starlings. We are interested in additional birds for the "week of" so if anyone is birding at Fountain Creek Park on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday, I'd be interested in what you saw and where you found them in the park Probably the best bird this year are the 2-3 Green Herons that seem to be regular residents of late. Ken Pals for Fountain Creek Nature Center Following is the list of birds observed: Double-crested Cormorant - 10 Great Blue Heron 3 Green Heron - 3 Black-crowned Night-Heron - 3 Canada Goose - 10 Wood Duck - 15 Mallard - 23 Domestic Duck - 1 Turkey Vulture - 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 3 Cooper's Hawk - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - 3 Golden Eagle - 1 American Kestrel - 3 Virginia Rail - 4 Killdeer - 20 Rock Pigeon - 9 Eurasian Collared-Dove - 24 Mourning Dove - 73 Great Horned Owl - 1 Black-chinned Hummingbird - 2 Belted Kingfisher - 10 Downy Woodpecker - 25 Hairy Woodpecker - 3 Northern Flicker - 43 Olive-sided Flycatcher - 1 Western Wood-Pewee - 5 Say's Phoebe - 1, week of 9/9 Empidonax species - 6 Western Kingbird - 5 Eastern Kingbird - 3 Warbling Vireo - 1 Blue Jay - 29 American Crow - 46 Common Raven - 12 Cliff Swallow - 4 Barn Swallow - 16 Black-capped Chickadee - 38 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2 White-breasted Nuthatch - 13 House Wren - 12 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 American Robin - 30 Gray Catbird - 2 European Starling - 448 Orange-crowned Warbler - 2 Virginia's Warbler - 2 Yellow Warbler - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 2 Wilson's Warbler - 6 Western Tanager - 1 Spotted Towhee - 2 Chipping Sparrow - 4 Brewer's Sparrow - 6 Lark Sparrow - 5 Song Sparrow - 1 Blue Grosbeak - 2 Lazuli Bunting - 1 Red-winged Blackbird - 113 Western Meadowlark - 9 Yellow-headed Blackbird - 5 Brewer's Blackbird - 14 Common Grackle - 10 Bullock's Oriole - 1, week of 9/9 House Finch - 134 Lesser Goldfinch - 56 American Goldfinch - 20 House Sparrow - 14 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
