Walden Pond birds today, Boulder County

[Richard Pautsch]

Highlights of this morning's Boulder Bird Club First Sunday trip to Walden and Sawhill Ponds included:

--All 3 Teal species (Cinnamon was at the far end of the first Sawhill Pond on the right as you walk through the gate from Walden)

--An incessantly calling Virginia Rail (hidden in the reeds at the end of the first Sawhill Pond on the left as you walk through the gate from Walden)

--FOS Avocet

--A flock of 5 Turkey Vultures headed north

--A pair of Cooper's Hawks flying over

--Two Franklin's Gulls headed south

--A flock of 8 Greater Yellowlegs which flew in as we reached the cars in the Cottonwood Parking lot at noon

--and a group of 38 birders enjoying a fine spring morning

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Dick Pautsch, Boulder