My week-ends in March are all open. Denver West is still occasionally having a Pine Warbler. Chuck Hundertmark and I visited there recently and missed the warbler but found Red-breasted Nuthatches, Mountain Chickadees and Black-capped Chickadees, Cedar Waxwings, a few kinds of dabblers and not much else. However, Denver West is a surprisingly good place with lots of trees and on a week-end there are only a few people, like for instance a doctor with his Portia Carrera convertible.
Maybe Ira's place. He gets rosies. Red Rocks is out, never again on a week-end. Or, maybe it will be good if the weather is bad - an especially good time for rosies. Wheat Ridge Greenbelt is always good. There is a grove of choke cherries where robins hang out. Maybe waxwings. On the creek, maybe dippers. S. Platte is good too. Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: "Digest recipients" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 1:33:48 AM Subject: [cobirds] Digest for [email protected] - 11 updates in 9 topics [email protected] Google Groups Topic digest View all topics * 2015 CFO Convention brochure is on line - 1 Update * Swans at Holcim Wetlands, Fremont - 1 Update * Long live the Boulder cardinal! - 1 Update * Bald eagles on nest at Rocky Mt. Arsenal NWR, Adams county - 1 Update * Moose Visitor Center (Jackson) at Gould on 2/16/15 - 1 Update * Counting Upland Game Birds in Colorado - 3 Updates * Rosy-Finches - Golden - Have Returned - 1 Update * Merlin and Rosy-Finches - Golden - Jeffco - 1 Update * Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 17 February 2015 - 1 Update 2015 CFO Convention brochure is on line Lisa Edwards <[email protected]>: Feb 17 06:15PM -0700 All, We have just posted the brochure for the 53rd CFO Convention that will be held in Salida, CO. from June 4th to June 8th on our web site. You can view the brochure by following this link- http://cobirds.org/CFO/Conventions/Next.aspx < http://cobirds.org/CFO/Conventions/Next.aspx > . We will be opening registration in several stages this year. We will open the registration to CFO members followed by WFO members. CFO members will receive a private email announcing when you can register for the convention. We will announce here and also on the CFO web site and Facebook page when registration is open to everyone. Thanks! Lisa Edwards CFO Membership Chair Palmer Lake, CO Back to top Swans at Holcim Wetlands, Fremont [email protected]: Feb 17 07:22PM -0500 This morning there was a Tundra Swan and a Trumpeter Swan at the Holcim Wetlands, on Rte 120 south of Penrose. The two stayed close together and were rarely more than a few yards apart. This enabled comparing the head shapes in a single scope view (and in a single camera frame.) The Tundra had a large yellow lore spot. They were also here Sunday afternoon but the weather was windy, snowy and getting dark. I returned this morning in bright sunshine to get a better view and some good photos. Rich Miller Canon City Back to top Long live the Boulder cardinal! Ted Floyd <[email protected]>: Feb 17 04:19PM -0800 Did anyone see this one coming??--a proposal to split the Northern Cardinal into *six (6)* species! This is gonna be more fun than crossbills... http://checklist.aou.org/nacc/proposals/PDF/2015-B.pdf Ted Floyd Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado On Monday, February 16, 2015 at 6:20:24 PM UTC-7, Ted Floyd wrote: Back to top Bald eagles on nest at Rocky Mt. Arsenal NWR, Adams county "Johnson, Candice E., MD." <[email protected]>: Feb 17 09:14PM Today at 11 am at Rocky Mt. Arsenal NWR, the nest near the eastern boundary in the treeline was occupied by 2 adult bald eagles. They were observed by several of us through a scope to apparently be mating--a delayed Valentine's Day for them. Also a large flock of redheads and another of canvasbacks are present on Lake Ladore, in numbers larger than recently reported. Candice Johnson, Denver County ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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If you are not an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message from your computer system. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Back to top Moose Visitor Center (Jackson) at Gould on 2/16/15 DAVID A LEATHERMAN <[email protected]>: Feb 17 10:09AM -0700 At the Department of Parks and Wildlife Moose Visitor Center on the west side of Cameron Pass along SR14 at Gould (Jackson), the following appeared at the feeders behind the VC yesterday during fairly cold temps and light falling snow: Pine Grosbeak (9) Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (about 75) Brown-capped Rosy-Finch (5 or so) Black Rosy-Finch (0) COMMON GRACKLE (1) Gray Jay (2) Steller's Jay (20) Mountain Chickadee (25) Black-capped Chickadee (5) Dark-eyed Junco (5) Red Squirrel (2) Rumor has it the State Land Board is considering privatizing at least some of their holdings on Cameron Pass. It would be a shame if the Moose Visitor Center facility passes from public to private hands, in my opinion. Of note, I saw no dippers or pygmy-owls along the drive up Poudre Canyon, but my method was casual and only generated one ibuprofen-worth of neck craning. Dave Leatherman Fort Collins Back to top Counting Upland Game Birds in Colorado "Karl Stecher Jr." <[email protected]>: Feb 17 01:32AM -0700 To put in a field observation, as its range is being discussed: In 1981, I had a bobwhite in Aurora, Arapahoe County, not far northeast of Havana and Alameda. Karl Stecher Centennial Nick Komar writes: Tom Wilberding <[email protected]>: Feb 17 07:26AM -0800 Nick, thanks so much! It’s a rather complicated situation. Should eBird allow only posts that conform to ABA listing rules? I don’t know, but in the case of a tough call like this Northern Bobwhite, I would like eBird to err on the inclusive side, so the data is out there for each of us to examine and judge for ourselves. Here is another factor in considering this interesting “cover-bird”. (I was going to write “cover-girl” but that is another analysis.) Since naturally occurring Northern Bobwhite generally do not move more than a mile from where hatched: is there a game bird collector within a mile radius of the East Boulder Rec Center? Paula Hansley emailed me yesterday that there is such an address. From a lister’s point of view, it would be helpful if all such game bird collectors were required to post their address online, like convicted sex criminals. (:-) Hey, just kidding!) But in the absence of that data, I think a lister has to research the natural range of the bird, observe the bird’s behavior (is it shy or does it seem accustomed to humans?) then use his or her own judgment whether to count the bird. eBird is one good source of information about status and distribution, but not the only one, and I would not rely on just one source. Again, this is all from one lister’s point of view. I don’t presume to speak for more knowledgeable field ornithologists and their broader point of view. Tom Wilberding Boulder On Monday, February 16, 2015 at 9:51:48 AM UTC-7, Tom Wilberding wrote: Sean Walters <[email protected]>: Feb 17 09:53AM -0700 Hello All, The review standards for eBird have been posted to the eBird help pages in the form of the eBird reviewer instruction document. It can be accessed by going here http://help.ebird.org/customer/portal/articles/1822748-ebird-review-standards This document has a very good explanation of the policy that eBird reviewers are to follow in regard to the review of exotics/released species. If this interests you, please read it. When it comes to how I submit escaped/released birds, I do record certain species that have an uncertain status of some sort (Mute Swan and the impending great Chukar release along the front range would be examples). However, all of these records are invalidated as the eBird review instructions guide. Good birding, Sean Walters Loveland, CO Back to top Rosy-Finches - Golden - Have Returned Ira Sanders <[email protected]>: Feb 17 09:35AM -0700 Birders, The Merlin must have left the building as the Rosy's have returned. Here is another shot of the Merlin. http://zroadrunner.smugmug.com/Birds/Just-Birds/Birds/31564726_z5MCLK#!i=3883628407&k=NfrcDjj -- Ira Sanders Golden, CO Back to top Merlin and Rosy-Finches - Golden - Jeffco Ira Sanders <[email protected]>: Feb 17 08:47AM -0700 Birders, The Rosy-Finches were here today at least until the Merlin showed up and perched in their tree. I had wondered why they left after I put out a lot of seed for them and then I saw the Merlin (yard bird #131) and knew why. Photos at: http://zroadrunner.smugmug.com/Birds/Just-Birds/Birds/31564726_z5MCLK#!i=3883550951&k=LNXNSWj http://zroadrunner.smugmug.com/Birds/Just-Birds/Birds/31564726_z5MCLK#!i=3883551019&k=WN3pvKR -- Ira Sanders Golden, CO Back to top Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 17 February 2015 Joyce Takamine <[email protected]>: Feb 17 04:26AM -0700 Compiler: Joyce Takamine Date: February 17, 2015 This is the Rare Bird Alert Monday, February 17 sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species). Tundra Swan (Fremont, Pueblo) AMERICAN BLACK DUCK (Weld) White-winged Scoter (Pueblo) Long-tailed Duck (Pueblo, *Weld) Barrow's Goldeneye (Delta, Dolores, Larimer, Larimer, Moffat, Pueblo, Routt, Weld) Red-throated Loon (Pueblo) Red-necked Grebe (Pueblo) Thayer's Gull (Adams, Pueblo) Lesser Black-backed Gull (Adams, El Paso, Larimer, Pueblo, Weld) GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL (Adams) Glaucous Gull (Pueblo, Washington) Great Black-backed Gull (Pueblo) Greater Roadrunner (Pueblo) ACORN WOODPECKER (El Paso) Red-bellied Woodpecker (Prowers) Williamson's Sapsucker (Fremont) American Three-toed Woodpecker (Larimer) Black Phoebe (Fremont, Mesa) Canyon Wren (Dolores/Montezuma) Lapland Longspur (*Boulder, Elbert) Pine Warbler (Jefferson) Fox Sparrow (Dolores/Montezuma) Golden-crowned Sparrow (Boulder, *Jefferson) Northern Cardinal (*Boulder, Prowers) Rusty Blackbird (Fremont) Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (Boulder, *Jefferson, *San Juan) Black Rosy-Finch (Boulder, *San Juan) Brown-capped Rosy-Finch (Boulder, *San Juan) ADAMS COUNTY: --On February 4, Dowell reported 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 1 Iceland Gull, and 1 Thayer's Gull at Barr Lake. On February 5, Dowell reported 1 GLACOUS-WINGED GULL, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, and 4 Thayer's Gulls at Barr Lake. On February 6, Dunning reported a Thayer's Gull from the RMBO side of Barr Lake and a Lesser Black-backed Gull from regular side of Barr Lake. On February 8 at Barr Lake, Mark Peterson reported 1 ad Thayer's Gull and 1 2nd-cyc GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL. On February 9 at Barr Lake, Mlodinow reported Thayer's Gull. On February 12, Dowell reported Lesser Black-backed Gull at Barr Lake. BOULDER COUNTY: --On February 1, Adam Vesely reported Golden-crowned Sparrow at Teller Farm. On February 6, Al Clark reported Golden-crowned Sparrow at Teller Farm. --On February 14 at Ward, Kaempfer reported all three Rosy-Finches. --On February 16, Floyd reported Northern Cardinal in North Boulder Foothills. --On February 16, Deininger reported Lapland Longspur on 9th Ave in Longmont. DELTA COUNTY: --Garrison reported several Barrow's Goldeneyes along the river at Confluence Park near the boat launch on February 4. On February 6, Henwood reported 9 Barrow's Goldeneyes in the river below the boat launch at Confluence Park. DOLORES COUNTY: --A m Barrow's Goldeneye was reported by Riley Morris at impoundment ponds on the west end of McPhee Reservoir by the Dolores town Cemetery on February 7. DOLORES/MONTEZUMA COUNTIES: --A Slate-colored Fox Sparrow and Canyon Wrens were reported by Riley Morris at Lone Dome SWA on February 7. ELBERT COUNTY: --On February 3, Suddjian reported 2 Lapland Longspurs at CR 94 east of CR 33. On February 3, Suddjian reported 1 Lapland Longspur on CR 29 at CR 150. EL PASO COUNTY: --On January 30, Chris Brobin reported ACORN WOODPECKER in the Willow Circle Neighborhood of Colorado Springs. Please respect the privacy of homeowners. On February 1, Brook Nelson reported ACORN WOODPECKER in the Willow Circle Neighborhood of Colorado Springs. On February 3, Erthal reported ACORN WOODPECKER in the Willow Circle neighborhood of Colorado Springs. On February 6, Erthal and Kilpatrick reported ACORN WOODPECKER in the Willow Circle neighborhood of Colorado Springs. On February 14, Kellner reported ACORN WOODPECKER in the Willow Circle neighborhood of Colorado Springs. On February 15, Hopping reported ACORN WOODPECKER in the Willow Circle neighborhood of Colorado Springs. FREMONT COUNTY: --A m Williamson's Sapsucker was reported by Erthal on the W side of Centennial Park in Canon City on February 6. --A Black Phoebe was reported by Erthal at Florence Riverside Park on February 6. On February 15, Moss reported Black Phoebe at Florence River Park. --On February 15, Mark Peterson reported 2 Tundra Swans flying low and to the east from West of Florence RIver Park. --On February 15, Mark Peterson reported 6 Rusty Blackbirds (2m, 4 f) on CR 119. JEFFERSON COUNTY: --On February 2, Deferme reported Golden-crowned Sparrow at Red Rocks Trading Post. On February 10, Suddjian reported Golden-crowned Sparrow at Red Rocks Trading Post. On February 16, Amy Darling reported Golden-crowned Sparrow at Red Rocks Trading Post. --Ira Sanders reported Gray-crowned and Black Rosy-Finches coming to his front yard at 314 DeFrance Ct in Golden on December 29. Birders are welcome to watch from the street. On February 5, Sanders reported that Rosy-Finches returned to his yard and warned about a detour due to construction. On February 5, Sanders reported that the Rosy-Finches returned for only a few minutes. Sanders reported on February 8 that the Rosy-Finches returned to his yard. On February 11, Sanders reported that the Rosy-Finches returned to his back yard. On February 12, Sanders reported some Rosy-Finches in his yard. On February 15, Sanders reported some Rosy-Finches in his yard. On February 16, Sanders reports lots of Rosy-Finches and lots of snow in his yard. --On January 4, Schottler reported a Pine Warbler at Denver West Office Park near the SE corner of bldg 7. On January 28, Nick Moore reported Pine Warbler at Denver West. On January 29, Lisa Edwards reported Pine Warbler at Denver West. On January 31, Kilpatrick reported Pine Warbler at Denver West. On February 10, Norm Lewis reported Pine warbler at Denver West Office Park. On February 14, Matt Clark reported Pine Warbler at Denver West. --On February 7, 1 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch was reported by Haley at Apex Park. LARIMER COUNTY: --On January 16, Cobble reported a pair of Barrow's Goldeneyes at Watson SP Wildlife Area and on January 17, Brueing reported a pair of Barrow's Goldeneyes at Watson. On January 25, Leatherman reported a pair of Barrow's Goldeneyes at Watson Lake. On January 30, Wade reported a pair of Barrow's Goldeneyes at Watson Lake. A pari of Barrow's Goldeneyes was reported by Cobble at Watson Lake on February 7. --On February 6, Griffin reported 2 ad Lesser Black-backed Gulls at Portner Reservoir in Fossil Creek Park. --On February 6, Starks reported a m American Three-toed Woodpecker on the trail to Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain NP. MESA COUNTY: --A Black Phoebe was reported by Henwood at Grand Junction Wildlife Area along river's edge on February 10. MOFFAT COUNTY: --On February 11, Luke reported about 20 Barrow's Goldeneyes on the Yampa River just south of Craig. PROWERS COUNTY: --At Lamar Community College Woods between February 5 and February 9, Leatherman reported Northern Cardinal and Red-bellied Woodpecker.tp 22nd PUEBLO COUNTY: --On February 6, Erthal reported a Red-necked Grebe at Pueblo Reservoir in a cove on the N side of N Marina. On February 7, Percival reported 2 Great Black-backed Gulls(1 ad, 1 1-st yr) at Pueblo Reservoir on ice look W from W Fishing Road. On February 9 at Pueblo Reservoir, Percival reported Red-throated Loon. On February 14, Kellner reported Red-necked Grebe and Red-throated Loon at Pueblo Reservoir. On February 15, Hopping reported Great Black-backed Gull and Red-necked Grebe at the South shore Marina of Pueblo Reservoir. --On February 1, Mark Peterson reported a Tundra Swan on Lake Minnequa. On February 6, Percival reported ad Tundra Swan and f-type White-winged Scoter on Lake Minnequa in Pueblo. On February 8, Chartier reported that the Tundra Swan and White-winged Scoter continue at Lake Minnequa. On February 9, Percival reported Tundra Swan and f Long-tailed Ducks at Lake Minnequa. --On February 11, Margie Joy found a Greater Roadrunner at Juniper Breaks Campground on the N side of Pueblo Reservoir. --On February 13, Margie Joy found 2 Greater Roadrunners at Swallows on the far W part of Pueblo Reservoir. SAN JUAN COUNTY: --About 400 - 500 Rosy-Finches (all three species) were reported by Peter Derven near the corner of Blair St and 9th in Silverton on February 16. WASHINGTON COUNTY: --On February 15, Mlodinow report 2 Glaucous Gulls at Prewitt Reservoir. WELD COUNTY: --On February 8, Lefko reported ad Lesser Black-backed Gull at Woods Lake. --On February 11, Sheeter reported Barrow's Goldeneye on LUNA Reservoir. --On February 13, Mlodinow reported an AMERICAN BLACK DUCK at Windsor Reservoir. --On February 13, Messick reported Tundra Swan on Lower Latham at CR 48. --On February 16, Hess reported Long-tailed Duck at Windsor Lake. The DFO Field Trip for Saturday, February 21 will be to Boulder Reservoirs (Baseline, Valmont, and Boulder) led by Wendy Wibbens and Sue Summers (wibbwj AT aol.com, 303-330-1175). Meet at 0800 at the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Office, 6060 N Broadway. Exist I-25 at 58th Ave, go west 2 blocks to Broadway, then north 2 blocks to parking lot on right. Will be in and out of cars with short walks up to 1/2 mile. Please bring scopes for distance viewing if you have one. Dress for winter weather and bring water, snacks and lunch. Please register online or contact leader to register. The DFO Field Trip for Sunday, February 22 will be to Morrison Nature Center at Star K Ranch led by A.J. Gest (offsetaj AT comcast.net, 303-994-2420). This trip is FULL. Good Birding, Joyce Takamine Boulder Back to top You received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this group. You can change your settings on the group membership page . To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it send an email to [email protected] . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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