We saw them again today, 10 ducklings, now with light color on their heads
and breasts, apparently twice as big as yesterday. Mother and ducklings
were swimming in a tight group at a furious pace.
On Friday, May 25, 2018 at 9:44:04 PM UTC-6, Michael Lamson wrote:
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> There was a wood du
There was a wood duck hen with 8 tiny, black ducklings on the west shore of
Cottonwood Marsh (at Walden Ponds) at 4:00 PM.
Michael Lamson
Western Boulder County
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The snipes are courting in the Coughlin Meadows area in Roosevelt National
Forest, 8.5 miles up Sugarloaf Road from Boulder Canyon, 2500 m altitude
(i.e montane).
They are still most active after dark but I expect to be able to watch them
soon.
Saw-whet owls are calling between midnight and
When I was growing up in New Hampshire, old-timers called this bird
"stake-driver". At the right distance, the call sounded like "*oonk*-ka-
*oonk*". The "oonks" sound like a distant sledge hammer hitting a wooden
stake, but I don't know what the "ka" was thought to be. I haven't heard
this
Look at the Swan Goose X Canada goose hybrid on page 16 of the 2011 Sibley
Birds.
Michael Lamson
Boulder County
On Monday, January 29, 2018 at 7:19:27 PM UTC-7, Alex Brown wrote:
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> This morning Gillian and I found a very unusual goose at Stearn's Lake
> (southeast Bould
An Ontrac snafu has left me with an extra copy of the new Sibley Birds.
Would anyone like it?
Michael Lamson
Boulder County
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If you tour the livestock exhibit at the county fair, these are called "colored
runners".
On Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 3:19:58 PM UTC-7, Karen Strong wrote:
> Please forgive my ignorance - I'm a brand new birder & have only been
> observing for a little over a month.
>
>
> I saw these
