Josh, Thanks for posting! :-) Sounds like a great trip with lots of great birds seen and cool behaviors witnessed!
People these days want a "quick fix" and don't want to have to LEARN the birds. They want birding to be easy and have their birds HANDED to them on a silver platter. eBird IS the silver platter. Choosing to share sightings is a personal thing and when decided a birder can choose the forum in which to share. Years ago it was a monthly published newsletter or a quarterly journal! I wish more people would just get into the field and enjoy birding and learning like you do (it makes for a better birder) and not just chase EVERY bird that gets reported. Again, thanks for sharing! Joey Kellner Littleton, Colorado On Monday, August 3, 2015 at 6:01:04 PM UTC-6, Josh Bruening wrote: > > Good day all! > > This post is a few days late but thought I'd post it nonetheless. My > family and I camped at Stagecoach State Park south of Steamboat Springs > this past weekend. On the way there we stopped at Moose Visitor Center for > a quick picnic and was able to see the normal summer bird residents. I did > pick up a Slate-colored Fox Sparrow. Also, there was a male Rufous > Hummingbird and either a juvenile or female Calliope Hummingbird. The male > Rufous was battling for position on one of the feeders staying very close > by in a nearby bush. At one point he landed 4 feet from me. Pretty > cool! On to Stagecoach...After dinner in Steamboat on Friday (7/31) we > headed back to our camp. As we were a few hundred yards before the turn > off for the park, my wife and I spotted two birds along side the road at > the same time and I knew right away they were grouse. I turned the car > around and stepped out to see if I could catch another glimpse. I ended up > flushing 5 Sharp-tailed Grouse! The park description mentioned them as > being present in the park but I sure didn't think I'd turn up a lifer right > then and there. Very awesome. The park held Brewer's Sparrows, Vespers > Sparrows, and Sagebrush Sparrows. There were many Lazuli Buntings and > Brewer's Blackbirds as well. Also, a Long-tailed Weasel. Only the second > one I've ever seen. He was giving the Wyoming Ground Squirrels a good > scare. Most other sightings were of the usual suspect kind. We enjoyed > ourselves immensely while we were there. Got some fishing in as well as my > kiddo's first canoe ride. The ride home yesterday turned up two giant bull > moose in direct sight of downtown Walden. And just as we passed The > Mishawaka we spotted a Black Bear cruising the hillside a few hundred feet > above the Poudre River. A much needed and blessed break! > > Bird is the word y'all! > > Josh Bruening > Fort Collins > > P.S. I get it. I understand the importance and potential impact of it. > But please please please don't take this post as an opportunity to reply to > me to plug Ebird. It's really making me not want to post anymore. I'll > get to it, when I get to it, if I choose to get to it. Sometimes I just > like to bird for me and share in this forum. I am certainly not trying to > sound crass but it is exhausting getting 8-10 emails after every post I > make about Ebird. Thanks! > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/a2c288ba-2ed9-4440-b306-2d9cfc33971b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
