Jan 14, 2001 Trip

Field Trip Report

Sunday January 14, 2001
City Park / Grandview Cemetery

City Park/Grandview Cemetery, 14 January 2001, 9 am-12 noon
Report Prepared by: Nick Komar, nick.komar@juno.com

Eight people joined the Birding for Beginners field trip to City Park in Fort Collins. After studying the diverse waterfowl at the lake, we walked through the park and around Grandview Cemetery in search of land birds. We observed 26 species of wild birds (and 3 others). This is our list:

Pied-billed Grebe

2

Mute Swan (not wild)

1

Greylag Geese (not wild)

Chinese Geese (not wild)

Canada Goose

100

Mallard

100

Northern Shoveler

20

Ring-necked Duck

20

Lesser Scaup

6

Common Goldeneye

6

Hooded Merganser

2

Common Merganser

3

Bald Eagle

1 adult

Sharp-shinned Hawk

1 adult

Falcon species

1

American Coot

12

Ring-billed Gull

6

Herring Gull

1

Downy Woodpecker

1

Northern (Red-shafted) Flicker

3

Black-billed Magpie

2

American Crow

12

Black-capped Chickadee

8

Red-breasted Nuthatch

2

White-breasted Nuthatch

2

Townsend’s Solitaire

2

American Robin

1

European Starling

2

House Finch

2