Anybody coming via Boulder campus and can offer a ride? I'm in town for a week with no personal transportation. If so, leave me your contact info and we'll take it from there. Thanks so much!! Sue from Connecticut
On Tuesday, July 15, 2014 5:43:10 AM UTC-4, Ted Floyd wrote: > Hello, Birders. > > Please join the Boulder Bird club for a nighttime natural history excursion > tomorrow evening, Wednesday, July 16, at 8:30 p.m. We will depart from the > Eagle Trail East trailhead, west side of Boulder Reservoir, here: > > > https://goo.gl/maps/GfypM > > > Please consider carpooling. > > > BRING INSECT REPELLENT! And not that namby-pamby all-natural Boulder stuff. > Only DEET (buy it in Westminster or Pueblo or somewhere) works on the > ferocious mosquitos in the west end of marshes of Boulder Rez. > > > Our objective is to enjoy all aspects of the natural world at night: dancing > fireflies, twinkling stars and blazing meteors, frogs and toads, divers > insects, and birds. Speaking of birds, we will listen for rails, coots, > grebes, snipes, owls, nighthawks, herons, ducks, geese, swallows and other > passerines, and more. We'll probably see some birds, too. Here is a recap, > pp. 70-71, of last year's nighttime excursion to the Rez: > > > http://cfobirds.org/downloads/journal/Birding_on_the_Dark_Side.pdf > > > We'll be on foot the whole time, covering a few miles. I don't know how long > we'll be out, maybe till 10pm, maybe till midnight, maybe till dawn if we're > having a really good time out there. Nighttime natural history is wonderfully > unplanned and extemporaneous. > > > Bring DEET. Bring a sense of wonder. No artificial lights, please. Young > people and curiosity-seekers are especially welcome. The outing, sponsored by > the Boulder Bird Club, is free and open to the public. > > > See you tomorrow! > > > Ted Floyd > > > Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado -- 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/e8e87b7a-496d-4f41-9f46-64043084ab45%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
