Hello all, Field Trip coordinator Eric Defonso (and others!) has lined up an incredible variety of field trips for the coming months. this list is long but thought you'd like to see the whole line-up so you can plan ahead. Hope you can make a few of these great trips!
*January 1 (Friday) Loveland Christmas Bird Count. Compiler: Connie Kogler * Welcome to another year of Christmas Bird Count! PLEASE Pre-register, it helps tremendously with planning. We are looking to make this the best Loveland count ever, so please sign up!. All levels of birders are welcome to join this growing CBC. We have a variety of interesting habitats including; plains agriculture, suburban ornamental landscape, reservoirs and lower Rocky Mountain foothills. Highlight species include Trumpeter Swan, gulls, waxwings, and sometimes a Northern Pygmy-Owl. Contact Connie Kogler at zbluehe...@gmail.com for more information on how to participate! *January 9 (Saturday) Winter Mountain Birds. Leader: Connie Kogler* Join Connie on a winter birding trip! We will meet at the Starbucks on Eagle Dr. in Loveland (SW corner of Taft and SW 14th) at 7:30 a.m. and car pool from there in appropriate vehicles. Our first stop will be the town of Ward, Co. to scope out winter birds at feeders in and about town. Then off to check the feeders at Fawnbrook Inn, Allenspark. Then we will make our way to Estes Park and visit several winter hotspots there. This will be an all day trip with some walking or hiking involved. Please be well prepared for the weather!! I would like to arrange for the drivers in advance, so please contact me if you want to drive. Only blizzard like conditions will postpone this trip. We will stop for a hot lunch at a restaurant in Estes Park. Expect to be back in Loveland late afternoon. To sign up, contact Connie at zbluehe...@gmail.com. *January 9 (Saturday) Weld Raptor Search 8:30 a.m, Leader: Gary Lefko* Join the "Nunn Guy" on a trip around Nunn and beyond. We'll do some raptor routes I've designed. Meet at Nunn Cafe on southside of Nunn along Hwy 85--come earlier for breakfast! RSVP to the "Nunn Guy" (Gary) at lefk...@coloradobirder.info or 970-897-2454. January 10 (Sunday) Bobcat Ridge Natural Area Bird Survey. Leader: Denise Bretting. 7:00 am. FCAS performs a monthly bird census for the city of Fort Collins. All levels welcomed and encouraged! Info: dbrett...@swloveland.com, work: 669-1185, or home: 669-8095. * January 16 (Saturday) Running Deer/Cottonwood Hollow Half-Day Trip. Leader: David Leatherman * Meet at the Running Deer parking lot by the outhouse on Prospect Road in Fort Collins at 8:30 a.m., and perhaps be done by noon. Target birds with a slim (but not impossible) chance of being found would be marsh wren, northern shrike, western meadowlark, wintering rails, swamp sparrow, Harlan's hawk, American tree sparrow. We would pay attention to all creatures and hope to see white-tailed deer and maybe mink. Snow would be possible on the ground and falling out of the sky and the walk would be 2-3 miles. daleather...@msn.com for more info. *January 27 (Wednesday) Denver Museum Plus A Tour Of The Bird Collections. Leader: Eric DeFonso * Meet at the Transportation Center parking lot just west of the Harmony Rd/I-25 interchange for a planned 8:30am departure, returning around 4pm. Museum admission is $11 for adults, $6 for students and seniors 65+. We'll carpool to Denver and spend a day at one of the finest natural history museums in the country, with a special bonus - a rare hour-long guided tour of the bird specimen collections! Just to be clear, these are not live birds, but specimens collected in Colorado and beyond that are used to scientifically document the composition, distribution, and ecology of birds worldwide. Bring a lunch or buy one at the museum cafe. yoer...@yahoo.com or call 472-1761 for more info. *February 6 (Saturday) Boulder Area Birding. Leader: Ted Floyd* Join Ted Floyd, editor of Birding magazine, for a leisurely morning of birding around Boulder County. We'll go where the birds are! Meet at Walden Ponds, and we'll go from there. If there is open water on the reservoirs, we'll check it out. If not, we'll bird the foothills, feeders, and riparian strips. Dress for the weather, expect to do some carpooling, and get ready for lots of fun. Contact Ted Floyd by e-mail for meet details: tedfloy...@hotmail.com. * February 14 (Sunday) Bobcat Ridge Natural Area Bird Survey. Leader: Denise Bretting 7:00 am* FCAS performs a monthly bird census for the city of Fort Collins. All levels welcomed and encouraged! dbrett...@swloveland.com, work: 669-1185, or home: 669-8095 for more info. *February 21 (Sunday) Small Nocturnal Montane Winter Owls. Leader: Nick Komar. Co-leader: Eric DeFonso.* (Note: This trip is scheduled during President's Day weekend, when many people will have Monday off.) Join us as we head out into the winter night to find Northern Saw-whet Owls in Rist Canyon and Boreal Owls up at Cameron Pass. Both species begin their courtship calling in mid-winter, and therefore should be as easy to detect as they can be. We'll be looking and listening for these birds from the road primarily. We cannot guarantee that we'll be able to get a visual on the birds, but our chances are improved if we can hear them. This is a great opportunity to learn new things about these mysterious birds which live near us year-round, yet so few people ever actually experience. We will meet at 8pm, at a location to be determined, and plan on returning to Fort Collins around 2am. Carpooling will be required, to reduce potential impacts on the owls as they enter their breeding season as well as simply ease transportation. If the weather is uncooperative our backup day *may* be the following Saturday, February 27. To sign up, contact Eric DeFonso by email at yoer...@yahoo.com or by phone at (970)-472-1761. All field trips are free of charge (unless otherwise noted) and open to the public. All experience levels are welcome. Participants should dress appropriately for the weather. Bring snacks or lunch, water, binoculars, and spotting scopes. Carpooling is encouraged. A $3.00 (unless otherwise specified) contribution per passenger to the driver is suggested. Visit www.fortnet.org/Audubon for more information. For all field trips and surveys, please contact the trip leader for signup and trip details. Hope you can make at least a few of these great trips! Pat Pat Hayward FCAS Publicity PO Box 41 Masonville CO 80541 970.231.5250 -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en
