The Great Boulder Caper v2025

Trip Leaders: Ted Floyd and Megan Jones Patterson
Date: 28 November 2025
Registration Deadline: 26 November 2025, 5pm
Limit: 30 registrants

Please read details below BEFORE registering.

Colorado Field Ornithologists is pleased to announce The Great Boulder Caper, v. 2025. This zaniest field trip of the year will be held the day after American Thanksgiving, on Black Friday, November 28, 2025 in Boulder County. Register before 5pm on November 26th. 

As to our meetup point and itinerary, we don’t do it that way on The Caper. It’s freeform.

The rest of the story: Please register, and the trip leaders will confirm the meetup point, essentially unknown at the present time, and the vaguest sense of an itinerary, which, honestly, gets determined day-of. But if you need a general sense for things, it seems likely that we will get underway in the 7am hour somewhere in the general vicinity of Longmont, Boulder County.

The Caper is free and open to the public, but we need to cap this popular outing at 30 participants. So it is first-come first-served; and, surreally, several of you have already reserved a spot, even though this announcement is going out only now. Go figure.

Ride-sharing is strongly encouraged. 

Figure it out among yourselves. We’re all friends. And if your rider or driver is a perfect stranger, well, how often do you meet a perfect person? Feel free to come and go as you please. Most years, a few of us are still capering well past sundown; but it is also totally fine to bail at noon, or not show up till noon, or whatever.

What will we see? Late November is brilliant in Boulder County. 

No guarantees, but recent capers have produced Swamp and White-throated sparrows, Virginia Rails, Marsh and Canyon wrens, Prairie Falcons and Prairie Merlins, Ferruginous and Rough-legged hawks, Northern Shrikes, American Dippers, Eastern Screech-Owls, rare geese and gulls, late shorebirds, great studies of eagles, every variety of Dark-eyed Junco imaginable, and enchanting flocks of bewitching American Bushtits.

What will we do? Watch birds, of course. Eat leftovers. Share our love of birds and other wild things with one another. 

All are welcome! 

You don’t have to be a CFO member to caper with us. Children, teens, and non-birding human companions are welcome.

We’re so looking forward to capering with you! Please register and we’ll do all the rest. Register before 5pm on November 26th. 

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Want to host your own Caper! Interested in meeting up with others in your local area on November 28th?  CFO can help you get the word out.  Contact Megan Jones Patterson “mjonespatterson – at- cobirds – dot – org” to set up your local Caper. 

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