Meet Shay Lyons
I’ve been a nature lover and enthusiastic bird watcher my entire life, and started capital B birding during a trip to Mexico in 2024. I love birding in Colorado, and specifically the Front Range, where our diversity of habitats and changing seasons keep a fun and interesting rotation of birds year-round. There’s nothing like seeing that first Hooded Merganser of the winter in my local patch, City Park, or hearing the lovely and ethereal Hermit Thrush in the mountains in summer. Birding allows me to slow down and connect with the world around me in a way that feeds my curiosity and soothes my nervous system.
I enjoy attending and leading trips that engage all my senses; I especially love birding by ear! I love getting to know the same patches throughout the year. My trips will focus on traveling shorter distances at a mindful pace where I can share my knowledge of birds, plants, habitats, and learn from you too!
Meet David Suddjian
I've been birding for over 35 years, beginning in California, and in Colorado since 2013. I coordinated DFO's Big Year 2018, leading 81 field trips for DFO that year. I love eBirding, and counting birds.
I lead all kinds of trips from low key local outings near my Ken Caryl JeffCo home to intense far ranging trips reaching out to all corners of the state. Overnight trips go to classic Colorado birding locations, and sometimes we even camp! I like to explore areas, county birding, back roads, cemeteries and sewage lagoons, developing birding by ear skills, and helping birders to appreciate the patterns of migration, seasonal occurrence and habitat associations. I love the camaraderie of DFO field trips, the new friendships that grow, and the opportunities for birders to have FUN in the field!