About 10 miles hiking today in Clear Spring Ranch - 191 runtotal. Beautiful day with friends.
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| Poor Barn Owl - found its wing - maybe an Eagle got it or something.... |
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| Red-tail Hawk |
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| Icy Little Fountain Creek |
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| female American Kestrel |
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| Buffalo Gourd |
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Clear Spring Ranch 12/22/15
Monday, December 21, 2015
Big Johnson, Prospect Lake, Doubletree Ponds, and Acorn Woodpecker 12/21/15
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| Cherokee Trail ruts at Big Johnson - right of fence |
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| Western Meadowlark |
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| American Wigeon |
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| Canada Goose |
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| Hooded Merganser eating Crayfish |
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| Domestic/Mallards and Coot |
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| Buffleheads |
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| Buffleheads |
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| Pikes Peak |
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| Feed me, please?! |
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| American Coot |
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| More Coots |
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| Acorn Woodpecker |
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Christmas Bird Count Colorado Springs 6b 12/19/15
We walked 7.5 miles today (runtotal 181) and drove 18 or so to cover our area. Weather was pretty nice and we saw lots of neat birds. List at bottom.
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| Cooper's Hawk |
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| Belted Kingfisher |
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| Green-winged Teal |
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| American Kestrel |
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| Ash Red Homer Rock Pigeon |
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| Pretty nest |
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| American Goldfinch |
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| Starlings are pretty - I like the noises they make, too. |
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| Cows weren't quite sure what to make of us. |
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| Turn-around point. |
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| Mangy Coyote. :( |
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| Dark Red-tail Hawk. Harlan's? |
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| Cool rock art in Cruze Gulch. |
42 species (+5 other taxa) total
1 | Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii |
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518 | Canada Goose Branta canadensis |
2 | Wood Duck Aix sponsa
One male, one female, in concrete 'ponds' by Willow Springs Ponds.
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49 | Gadwall Anas strepera |
5 | American Wigeon Anas americana |
40 | Mallard Anas platyrhynchos |
2 | Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata |
34 | Green-winged Teal Anas crecca |
7 | Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias |
1 | Northern Harrier Circus cyaneus |
2 | Sharp-shinned Hawk Accipiter striatus |
2 | Cooper's Hawk Accipiter cooperii |
1 | Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus |
14 | Red-tailed Hawk Buteo jamaicensis |
4 | Killdeer Charadrius vociferus |
6 | Ring-billed Gull Larus delawarensis |
92 | Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) Columba livia (Feral Pigeon) |
83 | Eurasian Collared-Dove Streptopelia decaocto
We covered several miles of territory in neighborhoods - these were not seen all in one place, but over all of area 6b.
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1 | Great Horned Owl Bubo virginianus |
5 | Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon |
1 | Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescens |
15 | Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus |
10 | Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) Colaptes auratus [cafer Group] |
5 | American Kestrel Falco sparverius |
9 | Blue Jay Cyanocitta cristata |
2 | Black-billed Magpie Pica hudsonia |
5 | American Crow Corvus brachyrhynchos |
5 | Common Raven Corvus corax |
6 | Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus |
7 | Bushtit Psaltriparus minimus |
1 | Brown Creeper Certhia americana |
3 | Ruby-crowned Kinglet Regulus calendula |
1 | American Robin Turdus migratorius |
299 | European Starling Sturnus vulgaris |
6 | American Tree Sparrow Spizelloides arborea |
29 | Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis |
3 | Dark-eyed Junco (Slate-colored) Junco hyemalis hyemalis/carolinensis |
10 | Dark-eyed Junco (Oregon) Junco hyemalis [oreganus Group] |
12 | Dark-eyed Junco (Pink-sided) Junco hyemalis mearnsi |
6 | Dark-eyed Junco (Gray-headed) Junco hyemalis caniceps |
18 | White-crowned Sparrow Zonotrichia leucophrys |
1 | Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia |
1 | Spotted Towhee Pipilo maculatus |
1 | Brewer's Blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus |
16 | House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus |
1 | American Goldfinch Spinus tristis |
41 | House Sparrow Passer domesticus |
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