- Wake up before sunrise for a full morning of birding usually from around 6 AM to mid-afternoon
- Breakfast in the field
- Arrive back at the Y for lunch and/or free time, where we did things like more birding, play outside, or socializing
- Workshop (learning about things to make us better birders) or bird banding
- Dinner
- Owling and/or evening program given by a camp counselor
We visited a new habitat each of the 5 days in search of new birds. Here are the places we went and what habitats they offered:
- Day 1. Wild Basin (moutain birding in Rocky Mountain National Park)
- Day 2. Pawnee National Grassland and Fossil Creek Reservoir
- Day 3. Upper Beaver Meadows and Hidden Valley (more mountain birding)
- Day 4. Medicine Bow Curve (looking for birds of the tundra at 12,000 ft)
- Day 5. Rabbit Mountain (foothills birding)