Join in some February fun, and a great opportunity for newer birders and to work as a team.
DFO is having a *February Little Big Week* of field trips. A crazy big idea for the February doldrums of *7 little field trips only in Littleton seven days in a row* Feb 20-26. Trip details and registration is here: https://dfobirds.org/FieldTrips/UpcomingTrips.aspx Everyone is welcome and DFO trips are free. This is a good opportunity to learn some new spots, as we hop skip around on the different trips. Newer birders are very welcome. *A Little Little Big Week intro* *Goal*: to find as many different species as we can in Littleton on seven short (3 hour) DFO field trips while still having fun. Here “Littleton" is expanded beyond the city boundary to include some adjacent unincorporated areas considered under that name. We are going to bird and have fun as we always do on DFO trips, and not race around, but we are limited to only a few hours each trip. We will visit good birding spots with a variety of habitats. I'll update each group with details before each trip. Our collective *species goal is 60*, but we may do better. This is a seasonal ebb now for variety, and some species found in some years are not wintering at Littleton this year. Much will depend on the breaks and planning, but DFO field trips always come up with more than expected! I've made a list of 98 species that seem to me to be the pool of possibilities for our search area. I've divided the list into 'expected' species (47), 'maybe' species (26) and 'possible' species (25). The expected species are expected to be found with little to no planning. The 'maybe' species take some planning and maybe some good fortune. And 'possible' species are those that may be around but are hard to catch up with, or might be missing this particular winter in our search area. We can expect all the 'expected', maybe half or better of the 'maybe' and maybe none of the 'possible'. We'll rejoice for any of those. In addition to the Little Big Week trips, our field trip calendar has other open trips and many more coming up this spring. DFO Field Trip Calendar <https://dfobirds.org/FieldTrips/UpcomingTrips.aspx> David Suddjian DFO Field Trip Committee Chair Littleton, CO -- -- 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/ --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAGj6RopQE66LdYdpBr%2BsVR4TrKXFC6C_5LNkf%2BH%3D3Xpk0WCKJg%40mail.gmail.com.
