It was a beautiful day for the Avimor Bird March.
Nineteen guests joined us on the walk along Spring Valley Creek and around Foothills Heritage Park. Twenty-one species of birds were identified and reported on eBird:
Robert had placed some wild bird seed from Zamzows in various locations along the trail during the prior week which helped us observe the Juncos and White-Crowned Sparrows. We learned from Habiscapes’ Michael Wiegand to identify the juvenile White-Crowned Sparrows by the brown and buff head stripes as compared to the adults with white and black head stripes.
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The Spotted Towhee’s were shy but most in the group were able to see them.
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Another experiment was tried using bird calls from the Stokes Field Guide to Bird Songs and the BirdJam software on a Zune MP3 player with a portable speaker. This ethics of this practice is still being debated in the birding world, but I felt we did it responsibly and only for a couple of resident birds. The Song Sparrows responded to every bird call. The Ruby-Crowned Kinglets and the Spotted Towhees also briefly responded before realizing they were getting faked out.
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