CFO Convention 2017 Steamboat Springs and surrounding areas June 1-5

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Trumpeter Swan

Steamboat ski area at dawn

Marsh Marigold

Glacier Lily

Cedar Waxwings

Marmot

Dusky Flycatcher nest

Field Crescent

Black-chinned Hummingbird making nest

Dusky Flycatcher

Green-tailed Towhee

some kind of skipper butterfly

Garter Snake

a melanistic Mountain Bluebird!

Orange-Crowned Warbler

Fish Creek Falls

the banquet

the guest speaker

Greater Sage Grouse

Killdeer on a raft

Avocet

Cliff Swallow condos

California Gull

Pronghorn

Yellow-headed Blackbird

Cliff Swallow home construction

Sun Bow

Bald Eagle with two eaglets

Great Horned Owl stare

giant owl pellet

Fish in Walden Reservoir

Common Ringlet

little gray blobs in center are fluffy baby California Gulls

Pintails

Blue-eyed grass

lots of California Gulls with chicks and White Pelicans

big ant

Bistwort with bee

singing Barn Swallow at dusk

Yampa River at sunset

Crossbills

Crossbills and Pine Siskin

tiny little alpine flower - Turkeypea

pink snow - algae - eaten by Rosy Finches

Willow Flycatcher #1

Willow Flycatcher #2

Barrow's Goldeneye

Wilson's Warbler

My species list for the convention (including a few stops along the way to/from) 139 species:

Canada Goose

Trumpeter Swan

Gadwall

American Wigeon

Mallard

Blue-winged Teal

Cinnamon Teal

Northern Shoveler

Northern Pintail

Green-winged Teal

Canvasback

Redhead

Ring-necked Duck

Lesser Scaup

Bufflehead

Barrow's Goldeneye

Common Merganser

Ruddy Duck

Greater Sage-Grouse

Pied-billed Grebe

Eared Grebe

Western Grebe

Clark's Grebe

Eurasian Collared-Dove

Mourning Dove

Common Nighthawk

Black-chinned Hummingbird

Broad-tailed Hummingbird

Sora

American Coot

Sandhill Crane

American Avocet

Killdeer

Wilson's Snipe

Spotted Sandpiper

Willet

Wilson's Phalarope

Franklin's Gull

Ring-billed Gull

California Gull

Common Tern

Forster's Tern

Double-crested Cormorant

AmericanWhite Pelican

Great Blue Heron

White-faced Ibis

Turkey Vulture

Osprey

Bald Eagle

Cooper's Hawk

Northern Goshawk

Swainson's Hawk

Red-tailed Hawk

Great Horned Owl

Belted Kingfisher

Williamson's Sapsucker

Red-naped Sapsucker

Hairy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

American Kestrel

Peregrine Falcon

Olive-sided Flycatcher

Western Wood Pewee

Willow Flycatcher

Least Flycatcher

Hammond's Flycatcher

Gray Flycatcher

Dusky Flycatcher

Cordilleran Flycatcher

Western Kingbird

Eastern Kingbird

Plumbeous Vireo

Warbling Vireo

Gray Jay

Steller's Jay

Blue Jay

Black-billed Magpie

American Crow

Common Raven

Horned Lark

Tree Swallow

Violet-green Swallow

Northern Rough-winged Swallow

Cliff Swallow

Barn Swallow

Black-capped Chickadee

Mountain Chickadee

Red-breasted Nuthatch

House Wren

Marsh Wren

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Mountain Bluebird

Veery

Hermit Thrush

American Robin

Gray Catbird

Sage Thrasher

European Starling

Cedar Waxwing

House Sparrow

Cassin's Finch

Pine Siskin

Lesser Goldfinch

American Goldfinch

Evening Grosbeak

Orange-crowned Warbler

Virginia's Warbler

MacGillivray's Warbler

Common Yellowthroat

Yellow Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Wilson's Warbler

Green-tailed Towhee

Spotted Towhee

Chipping Sparrow

Brewer's Sparrow

Vesper Sparrow

Lark Bunting

Savannah Sparrow

Grasshopper Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Lincoln's Sparrow

White-crowned Sparrow

Dark-eyed Junco

Western Tanager

Black-headed Grosbeak

Blue Grosbeak

Lazuli Bunting

Bobolink

Red-winged Blackbird

Western Meadowlark

Yellow-headed Blackbird

Brewer's Blackbird

Common Grackle

Brown-headed Cowbird

Bullock's Oriole

Locations:  Thursday  - Stagecoach Reservoir area, Carpenter Ranch area (Routt County)

Friday - Black Mountain trip (Moffat County)

Saturday - Rotary Trail trip, Fish Creek Falls (Routt County)

Sunday -  Walden trip (Jackson County)

Monday - home via Rabbit Ears pass (Routt), Willow Flycatcher area (Grand), drive through Summit County on 40, I-70 and via Echo Lake, on down through Clear Creek and Jackson Counties to I-25.