This morning (1/17) Sol Miller and I decided to chase some of the birds that has been reported recently on cobirds. Interesting birds include:
Red Rocks (Jefferson County) 7:05 to 9:15 Golden-crowned Sparrow - Seen for about 10 seconds at around 8:45ish. Harris's Sparrow - Seen with the Golden-crowned Sparrow for the same amount of time. White-throated Sparrow - Seen on 3 different occasions, two of those were in the first 20 minutes. Rosy-Finches - At one point I counted 140 on the rocks. Mostly Gray-crowned (including a lot of Hepburn's), 2 Black, and ~10 Brown-capped. They were seen for about half the time we were there, most of that time they were on the rocks just to the south of the trading post. PACIFIC WREN - 1 was heard calling on the drive out by the bridge. I heard it very well and played the tape just after I heard it to conclude that was indeed what I heard. The location of the sighting can be found here: http://www.pbase.com/image/131904671. South Platte River on 88th Ave. (Adams County) 10:00 to 12:00 Long-tailed Duck - 1 Barrow's Goldeneye - 5 (2 males, 3 females) ICELAND GULL - 1 1st winter bird flew very low over us flying south along the river, it then flew towards the east and appeared to land on the mostly frozen pond just to the east of the green and white tank. Couldn't see the pond from our location. Marsh Wren - 1 We then got a phone call from Larry Semo telling us that he and Steve Mlodinow had just found the TUFTED DUCK in Longmont (Boulder County), that was a great find guys and thanks for getting word out so quickly. Here is a number of pics I took of the bird: http://www.pbase.com/birdingwild1/2011_photos. Cole Wild Loveland -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
