Anybody coming via Boulder campus and can offer a ride? I'm in town for a week with no personal transportation. If so, leave me your contact info and we'll take it from there. Thanks so much!! Sue from Connecticut
On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 5:43:10 AM UTC-4, Ted Floyd wrote: > 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/e8e87b7a-496d-4f41-9f46-64043084ab45%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
