Hello, Birders.
Please join the Boulder Bird club for a nighttime natural history excursion
tomorrow evening, Wednesday, July 16, at 8:30 p.m. We will depart from the
Eagle Trail East trailhead, west side of Boulder Reservoir, here:
https://goo.gl/maps/GfypM
Please consider carpooling.
BRING INSECT REPELLENT! And not that namby-pamby all-natural Boulder stuff.
Only DEET (buy it in Westminster or Pueblo or somewhere) works on the ferocious
mosquitos in the west end of marshes of Boulder Rez.
Our objective is to enjoy all aspects of the natural world at night: dancing
fireflies, twinkling stars and blazing meteors, frogs and toads, divers
insects, and birds. Speaking of birds, we will listen for rails, coots, grebes,
snipes, owls, nighthawks, herons, ducks, geese, swallows and other passerines,
and more. We'll probably see some birds, too. Here is a recap, pp. 70-71, of
last year's nighttime excursion to the Rez:
http://cfobirds.org/downloads/journal/Birding_on_the_Dark_Side.pdf
We'll be on foot the whole time, covering a few miles. I don't know how long
we'll be out, maybe till 10pm, maybe till midnight, maybe till dawn if we're
having a really good time out there. Nighttime natural history is wonderfully
unplanned and extemporaneous.
Bring DEET. Bring a sense of wonder. No artificial lights, please. Young people
and curiosity-seekers are especially welcome. The outing, sponsored by the
Boulder Bird Club, is free and open to the public.
See you tomorrow!
Ted Floyd
Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado
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