First bird of the year . .

[Hondochica z]

Thought I'd start this WI 'tradition' here - as I've not seen a comment as yet:

My first bird of the year was a pygmy nuthatch - love to them chatter in the pines

Happy New Year to all and good birding!

Kelly Goocher

Florissant

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My first bird of 2024 was a Black-billed Magpie.  He has discovered my peanuts for the Blue Jay.  At first, he hated the platform he had to land on but he figured out how to make it not swing when he lands so now he comes every morning.

Happy New Year.

Page Carr

Highlands Ranch

[Jared Del Rosso]

I stepped out my back door on 1/1/2024 to the song of a House Finch. - Jared Del Rosso, Centenial, CO

[Matt]

As much as a Pine warbler would have been nice as first bird, it was to be the lovely chatter of a Black capped chickadee I heard and saw as I stepped out the door. 

Matt Newport 

Aurora, Arapahoe county

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I stepped out my back door on 1/1/2024 to the song of a House Finch. - Jared Del Rosso, Centenial, CO

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[Dan Stringer]

Since the 1st I've been stuck at my house dog-sitting. Today I drove out of my neighborhood, tried not to notice any pigeons or starlings, and saw my first 2024 bird, a Sharp-shinned Hawk winging it over the road. 

Dan Stringer

Larkspur, CO

[Diana Beatty]

Mine was Canada Goose.

Diana Beatty

El Paso County 

[Patrick O'Driscoll]

I'd like to say mine was the handsome Krider's Red-tailed Hawk that our Denver Urban CBC group found perched in a big tree as we gathered at about 7:45 a.m. New Year's at the First Creek @ DEN Open Space trailhead out near the airport.

But I'd already been up since zero-dark-thirty to check out waterfowl at several nearby ponds.

My first birds that day:

A raft of five Common Goldeneyes (all males).

They were in a pool on the mostly frozen Emerald Strand, an L-shaped finger of water in Denver's Gateway Park area (office parks/apartments/hotels) west of the Peñs Boulevard access highway and south of the Arsenal.

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[Barbara Seibert]

My first bird of the year was an adult bald eagle!  I headed out early Monday morning, and the bird was sitting in a tree right next to the road near my home (Larimer County).  It was a nice start to the New Year!

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[Gisellys Zarzuela]

My first bird of the year was a Cackling Goose among a flock on (mostly) frozen Grasmere Lake at the crack of dawn on Jan 1st. 

Gigi Zarzuela

Denver County

[Susanna Donato]

I was doing some early stretching before heading out on the CBC when a movement in the cherry tree outside caught my eye -- the Downy Woodpecker that has recently discovered our suet feeder. One of my favorite yard birds!

[Lynne Forrester]

My first was a flock of Bushtits in the backyard (along with 2 foxes!)

Lynne Forrester 

Jefferson Cty

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