Hello COBIRDERS, Forty people stopped by "The Big Sit!" at Chatfield yesterday. Some spent an hour; many stayed several hours and a few spent most of the day helping to search for birds from a single location! Thank you, to all that attended! Considering the nice weather and high water levels (virtually no shore or sandbar islands) we still managed to see 59 species from a single location! This being the 18th year of hosting The Big Sit! we did find a new species that we've never recorded, Pinyon Jays! We heard at least two! One participant even got recordings of their distinctive calls. As expected we got all 20 species that have been seen EVERY year for the last 17 years (now 18 years). The full list of species seen is below.
Canada Goose Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon Mallard Green-winged Teal Lesser Scaup Common Merganser Ruddy Duck Pied-billed Grebe Eared Grebe Western Grebe Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove American Coot Killdeer Ring-billed Gull California Gull Herring Gull Double-crested Cormorant American White Pelican Great Blue Heron Osprey Golden Eagle Cooper's Hawk Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk Great Horned Owl Belted Kingfisher Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Say's Phoebe Pinyon Jay Blue Jay Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay Black-billed Magpie American Crow Common Raven Black-capped Chickadee Mountain Chickadee Barn Swallow Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch European Starling American Robin Cedar Waxwing House Finch Pine Siskin Lesser Goldfinch American Goldfinch Chipping Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco White-crowned Sparrow Song Sparrow Spotted Towhee Western Meadowlark Red-winged Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Yellow-rumped Warbler Joey Kellner Littleton, Colorado From: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, October 8, 2023 4:37 AM To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]> Subject: The Big Sit! - TODAY! (Sunday, October 8) - Chatfield State Park Hello again COBIRDERS! Looking for something to do today...Sunday? How about some leisure birding at a Big Sit? What is a "Big Sit" you ask? Well, a Big Sit is similar to the birding event called a "Big Day", in both events participants try to count as many species as possible, the difference is that in a Big Day you travel all over a geographical area whereas during a Big Sit you sit (or stand) in one location (a 17-foot diameter "circle") and count as many species seen or heard as possible in the course of the day. This is a worldwide event and as of this posting there are a number of Big Sit "circles" registered for this year's event! The Denver Field Ornithologists and Colorado Parks & Wildlife will once again sponsor and I will host "The Big Sit!" at Chatfield State Park next Sunday, October 8th. This will be the 18th year (non-consecutive, due to covid) for this fun and frivolous event. It is open to the public and EVERYONE is welcome! It will be held from dawn to dusk, come for an hour or stay all day, whatever works for your schedule. In addition to a day list, we will perform hourly counts so that every hour there are "new" birds to be added to the hour's count. "The Big Sit!" at Chatfield will be located at the Heronry Overlook on the east side of the reservoir. A park map is at the park entrance stations. Come and help find a few birds! Bring your own chair or use the bench seating provided by the heronry overlook deck. Bring binoculars, spotting scope (if you have), food, water, treats to share or whatever you need to spend time birding! If you haven't been to Chatfield this year, come and see the changes that have happened due to all the rain we received this spring and summer! And, as a bonus, help to spot some birds at the heronry overlook. So far, this year's weather looks to be quite nice! If you cannot attend "The Big Sit!" at Chatfield create your own! The details and rules can be found at: https://www.thebigsit.org Hope to see you all there! Joey. Joey Kellner Littleton, Colorado Y (oo) ) ) _ ( ( ( '< ) ) // ) ( ( / "" ) ) ( ( v -- -- 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/ --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/005801d9facf%24d78f5750%2486ae05f0%24%40comcast.net.
