Meet Chuck Hundertmark
I first became interested in birds in 7th or 8th grade, becoming a serious birder in 1964. After 30 years in New Mexico, I came to the Front Range in 1997. I most enjoy birds during the breeding season and have a particular interest in bird song and colonial waterbirds. I count cormorants, grebes, raptors and empidonax flycatchers among my favorite birds.
I prefer bird walks and hikes to car birding, but one of my favorite birding locations is North Park. There, drives between lakes are an important part of the birding. On field trips, I pay as much attention to listening for birds as looking for birds. I like to get beyond the "What bird is it?" question to the "What is the bird doing?" question.
Meet Peter Ruprecht
I have been birding in Colorado since the mid-’90s and appreciate the diversity of habitats we have across the whole state and also within relatively small areas. Some of my favorite places to bird are at the interface between the plains and the foothills along the Front Range. I am especially enthralled by birds of prey and have been a raptor monitor in Boulder County since 2006.
When choosing locations for field trips, I like to find spots that have a good variety of birds and are also interesting from a habitat or ecology perspective. Observing what environment a bird chooses not only gives us clues for identifying it, but helps us to appreciate how its lifestyle fits in with the surrounding ecology.