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BCAS Field Trips and Other Events

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Saturday, March 13, 7:30 a.m. - noon
"Spring Welcoming Hike"
Meet leader Steve Jones (303-494-2468, curlewsj@comcast.net) at Sawhill Ponds Parking Lot, 7:30am. This will be a morning walk, done by noon. Bring portable finger food (something warm, sweet, exotic, or passionate) to share, and meet at the Sawhill Ponds parking area, west of 75th St between Valmont and Jay roads. We'll walk about 2 miles, enjoying the ducks, raptors, and other spring wildlife.
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Sunday, March 14, 7:00 a.m. - noon
"Wheat Ridge Greenbelt" (With Boulder Bird Club)
Meet leader Paula Hansley (720-890-2628) at East Boulder Rec. Center at 7AM to carpool to Wheat Ridge for waterfowl and winter birding.  Then stop at Vincenza's Italian Restaurant nearby for brunch/lunch.
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Saturday, March 20, 8:00 a.m. - 1 or 2 p.m.
"Birding East Longmont"
(With Boulder Bird Club) Meet leader Chris Owens 303-772-6048 at 8:00 a.m. at Jim Hamm Natural Area parking lot at County Line Road and 17th Ave, East Longmont, bird until 1–2 p.m. Visit hot spots to ID our winter visitors including water fowl and grebes.
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Friday April 23 - Saturday April 24, 5:00 p.m. Friday - 8 or 9 p.m. Saturday
"Prairie Chickens and More"
This trip will be to Wray and eastern Colorado. Field Leader: Scott Severs (rostrhamus@aol.com); Logistics/Organizer: Andy Cowell (cowellj@colorado.edu, 303-543-7504 Note: phone message in foreign language). Limited to BCAS members.

About $125 (hotel room, double occupancy, tour cost for visiting lek, mileage @ 0.12/mile). Contact Cowell by March 1 to sign up. Limited to 8 spots. Meet: Friday, 5:00 pm, location to be determined. We will rent a van and drive to Wray, have dinner, and stay in a hotel there. We will visit a lek to view Greater Prairie Chickens the next morning on a guided tour. Then after an early lunch, we will bird the plains and riparian areas nearby looking for spring migrants. Return home to Boulder 8-9 p.m. Saturday. Bonus talk Friday evening on role of native grouse species in Native American dancing and ceremony, by Andy Cowell (professor at CU researching Native American language and culture).
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Saturday, May 1, 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
"Ecosteward Rendezvous in Skunk Canyon"
Ecostewards Elaine Hill, Carol Kampert, Maureen Lawry, and Steve Jones (curlewsj@comcast.net) will host a gentle hike up lower Skunk Canyon to look for wildflowers, spring-migrating birds, and mammals. Everyone is welcome, including potential new volunteers. Bring finger food to share during a potluck breakfast in the woods at the upper end of the canyon. Meet at 7 where Deer Valley Road dead-ends into Hollyberry Lane (from South Broadway take Dartmouth three blocks west, turn left onto Kohler Drive, and follow it all the way up to the top of the hill where it merges with Deer Valley Road).
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