Blog Posts
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Trinidad and Tobago Day 3: Asa Wright Nature Center and Team Macaw
The dishes are clean, the tables and chairs are put away, the clothes are washed. The station manager Hammond has Jamaican reggae music playing in the living room, and the team is divided between those out looking for reptiles and amphibians and those reviewing their new bird lists. Read more
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Trinidad and Tobago: Arena Forest and the Caribbean Coast
The team has been out birding since 6AM this morning. They took a break between 7PM and 9PM as dinner was being prepared to count up the life birds of the day: 55 life bird species in a single day for Nolan! This is not a joke… Read more
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Touching down in Trinidad and Tobago
This is it, after five months of planning and preparation, we are finally in the air over the Caribbean Ocean, heading toward this exciting world of Trinidad and Tobago. The idea for CSU Field Ornithologists’ first international trip has been brewing in club meetings since the end of the 2017 spring semester. Read more
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Bobcat Ridge, Spring 2017
Sixteen CSU bird enthusiasts gathered this morning at Bobcat Ridge Natural Area, a hiker’s wonderland nestled against the foothills only ten miles southwest of Fort Collins. The towering red cliffs of the hogback formation cast an icy shadow upon us as we scattered along a sorry little creek. The gray branches of the cottonwoods obscured… Read more
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CSUFO/DFO Third Annual Trip to Cameron Pass, Spring 2017
A numb daze overcomes my brain; there is an itchy dryness behind my eyelids. Owling tends to make me sleepy… And I feel satisfied. Sometimes I wonder what makes our club brazen enough to gather 22 people from CSU and Denver Field Ornithologists and march them around a snowy high-elevation forest at night in search… Read more
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New Mexico Trip Narrative, Fall 2017
The rising sun turned the cloudless sky a shade of butternut squash and lit the distant juniper-dotted mountains ablaze with salmon light. I tried to conjure profound realizations about this journey and the adventures of the previous four days; instead my thoughts turned to my painful frozen toes and fingers and the irresistible thought of… Read more
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