CFO Big Night, June 18-19, 2016: Boulder County

[Ted Floyd]

Hi, everybody. Well, I've recovered, sort of, from CFO's 2nd annual Big Night. From sunset Saturday, June 18 at 8:33 pm till sunrise Sunday, June 19 at 5:33, a dozen of us birded east to west in Boulder County, recording 70 species in the process. No tapes, no lights, and, so far as I am aware, no illegal stimulants... :-)

Here's our bird list in chronological order: American Avocet, 8:33; Killdeer, 8:33; Red-tailed Hawk, 8:33; American White Pelican, 8:33; Red-winged Blackbird, 8:33; Blue Jay, 8:33; Canada Goose, 8:33; Spotted Sandpiper, 8:33; Northern Rough-winged Swallow, 8:33; Mallard, 8:33; Yellow Warbler, 8:34; Common Grackle, 8:34; Say's Phoebe, 8:34; Tree Swallow, 8:35; Great Blue Heron, 8:35; Bank Swallow, 8:36; Common Yellowthroat, 8:36; Black-billed Magpie, 8:36; American Robin, 8:37; Cliff Swallow, 8:37; American Crow, 8:47; Eastern Kingbird, 8:49; Song Sparrow, 8:52; Wood Duck, 9:02; Osprey, 9:17; Eastern Screech-Owl, 9:29; Savannah Sparrow, 11:02; Grasshopper Sparrow, 11:47; Great Horned Owl, 12:24; Western Grebe, 12:25; Marsh Wren, 12:41; American Coot, 12:46; Snowy Egret, 12:48; Gadwall, 12:50; Pied-billed Grebe, 12:53; Northern Shoveler, 1:01; Wilson's Snipe, 1:31; Sora, 1:36; Barn Owl, 1:39; Yellow-breasted Chat, 3:04; Northern Saw-whet Owl, 3:31; Violet-green Swallow, 3:31; Flammulated Owl, 3:35; Common Poorwill, 3:43; Chipping Sparrow, 4:08; Cordilleran Flycatcher, 4:22; Western Bluebird, 4:32; Northern Pygmy-Owl, 4:33; Western Wood-Pewee, 4:39; Vesper Sparrow, 4:42; Plumbeous Vireo, 4:45; Lark Sparrow, 4:51; Yellow-rumped Warbler, 4:56; Warbling Vireo, 4:59; Western Tanager, 5:00; House Wren, 5:04; Pygmy Nuthatch, 5:09; Dark-eyed Junco, 5:10; Lincoln's Sparrow, 5:11; MacGillivray's Warbler, 5:12; Green-tailed Towhee, 5:12; Broad-tailed Hummingbird, 5:17; Pine Siskin, 5:18; Mourning Dove, 5:19; Hermit Thrush, 5:24; House Finch, 5:25; White-breasted Nuthatch, 5:26; Steller's Jay 5:29; Mountain Chickadee, 5:29; Northern Flicker, 5:32.

A male Dusky Grouse sitting pretty in the rising sun was a marvelous capstone to the outing. But it didn't count, haha.

The next strawberry full moon is June 9, 2017, so let's say we'll do our 2017 Big Night Friday-Saturday, June 9-10, 2017.

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County

[Ted Floyd]

Hey, everybody. Here's a recap posted to The ABA Blog:

http://blog.aba.org/2016/06/the-big-night-take-2.html

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County