Hi Leon, Glad to hear those birds stuck around! I wanted to make one small addition to your email.
In May, 2000 I was leading a birding hike with Dave, and we had one Acorn Woodpecker briefly stop on top of a nearby snag before flying off out of sight. We didn't get pictures, but I did sketch the bird after I had returned home, based on field marks I had noted while we briefly observed the bird perched in the snag. Here's that sketch, which was sent to the CBRC to document the observation: http://people.mbi.ohio-state.edu/hurtado.10/photos/AcornWP-050200.jpg I couldn't remember the all the details of when we had seen that bird, or what had happened with that CBRC report, but fortunately the CBRC reports are all online now!!! http://cfobirds.org/records/reports.htm A little digging around and using "Ctrl-F" to search for "Acorn" in these documents turned up this entry, in the 2000 Report of the CBRC ( http://cfobirds.org/cbrcfiles/03_CBRC_2000.pdf): "ACORN WOODPECKER Melanerpes formicivorus (6/6). One was found along the Mace Trail in Pueblo Mountain Park, Pueblo, on 20 May 2000 (PH; 2000-85; 7-0). The reporter included a nice color sketch that made it easy for the Committee to determine that this first county record was of a male." I should go back and figure out what time we saw that bird so I can enter it into eBird. :) Best, Paul -- Paul J. Hurtado Postdoctoral Fellow, The Ohio State University Mathematical Biosciences Institute, http://mbi.osu.edu/ Aquatic Ecology Laboratory, http://ael.osu.edu/ Webpage: http://people.mbi.ohio-state.edu/hurtado.10 -- 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.
