[cobirds] Las Animas County: Hepatic Tanager pair
Had a wonderful time at the CFO convention. Learned a great deal and met some very nice folks. We took Hwy 12 home and decided, even though it was 2:30 pm, to stop at the site just out of Trinidad for HEPATIC TANGER that was seen there by a CFO group two days earlier. We delighted to see a male and female! I have posted photos on my Facebook page and submitted reports for both. I would be very interested in finding out if this is one of the few known breeding sites for HEPATIC in the state or if it was unknown before the convention! Polly Wren La Veta, CO Sent from my iPad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
[cobirds] Bobolinks - 5 locations Boulder County
Cobirds: For Sunday May 20th - I surveyed 5 locations near Boulder that now have male Bobolinks actively singing and skylarking: 1. Teller Lake 5 area off Valmont Road - hike in about 3/4 of a mile (as previously reported by others) 2. Open Space properties off Gaptor and Dimmit Roads (near bike path) - at least 6 males 3. South Boulder Creek Trail (Bobolink Trail) from Baseline and Gaptor going south - 1 male 4. City of Boulder Open Space headquarters on Cherryvale - at least 3 males singing, along with lots of savanah sparrows, wilson's snipe, red winged blackbirds, and barn swallows. 5. City of Boulder Open Space (Church section) along Cherryvale Road - drive south from South Boulder Road and Cherryvale - sections along both sides of the road (drive carefully - no pullouts!) Up in the foothills: Myers Gulch Trail yeilded 8 Western bluebirds and 4 Mountain bluebirds, along with green tailed towhees, vesper sparrows, McGillvray's warblers. Nice to see so many bluebirds using the nest boxes that volunteers haved worked so hard to establish. Kudos to them. - John Tumasonis (John T) of Lousiville CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
[cobirds] SCOTT'S ORIOLE at Santa Clara Creek site, Huerfano County, today!
John Drummond phoned to tell me that he stopped to bird the Santa Clara Creek site, just west of exit 42, off I-25. This spot is well described in previous posts about the pair of Hepatic Tanagers found there by Tom Wilberding last week and seen my many CFO conventioneers. John heard and saw a singing, male SCOTTS ORIOLE, as well as a singing HEPATIC TANAGER at 7:40 AM today, May 21st. The oriole would be a FIRST HUERFANO COUNTY record, as it is not noted on the Huerfano County checklist at the CFO County Birding Website. Way to go, John! Perhaps others will stop here as they journey home from the successful CFO convention. Joe Roller, Denver -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
[cobirds] Trinidad Convention, Las Animas Co
All, Now I'm back at work, I can rest up after the CFO Convention!! I want to thank the three ladies who worked the hardest over the weekend; Maggie Boswell, Lisa Edwards and Brenda Linfield. In addition, Jim Beatty organized the overall Convention and Bill Kaempfer organized the field trips and their leaders. Three personal highlights for me were seeing the strange Phoebe (see post from Nathan Pieplow) which was found by Bruce Webb, seeing and hearing the road 310 male Hepatic Tanager with lots of people on Thursday, and seeing a displaying Grace's Warbler yesterday. This was found by Brenda (good ears) Wright, and was a life bird for several people in our group, Peter Gent, Boulder. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
[cobirds] Las Animas County: Hepatic Tanager - directions
Please forgive me. In may haste to post the Hepatic Tanagers this morning, I neglected directions to the site. The male and female Hepatic Tanagers were .8 miles west of mile marker 65 on Colorado State Hwy 12. There is a driveway. Pull off the road and walk toward the locked green metal gate. The pair were seen in the tallest Ponderosa Pine, about 75 ft. from the gate. They showed quite well. As always, please respect private property! Polly Wren Neldner La Veta, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
[cobirds] CFO Convention: Preliminary Bird Species List
Hello, Birders. Fantastic convention in Trinidad! Congratulations to Jim Beatty, to the field trip leaders, to the many presenters, and especially to the 200+ wonderful participants for a wonderful event. Special thanks, too, to the folks with the Trinidad Tourism Board and with the Trinidad-Las Animas County Chamber of Commerce, who really rolled out the red carpet for us. At this writing, the convention checklist stands at 195 bird species. I'm nearly certain that a few fairly common species were detected but not recorded on the master checklist. Please contact me OFFLINE if you're aware that any of the following were recorded during the CFO convention: Great Egret, Bald Eagle, Virginia Rail, Least Flycatcher, Swainson's Thrush, Hermit Thrush, Canyon Towhee, Brewer's Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, and Red Crossbill. Surely, most of those were recorded? Please tell me about it (again, offline), and please help us push our convention list up above 200! Of course, we had many, many highlights. Thanks to Peter Gent, Joe Roller, Nathan Pieplow, Polly Wren, David Waltman and others for already sharing some great birding highlights. Here are a few others, all from Las Animas County: 1. At Bar N I Ranch, in the steep foothills of the Sangre de Cristos, a Peregrine Falcon soaring in tight circles above the impressive stone wall for which nearby Stonewall, Colo., is named. 2. At 10,000+ ft. elevation, also at the Bar N I Ranch (it's a big place!), the spectacle of Christian Nunes improbably yet successfully leading nearly 20+ birders in a scramble up a steep, rocky, brushy slope in pursuit of a displaying Dusky Grouse. 3. Near the Trinidad Lake State Park campground, a Flammulated Owl hooting for nearly an hour in the middle of the night. 4. At the astonishing Beatty Canyon Ranch, the sunny pinyon-juniper woods alive with the rapid-fire singing of lovely Gray Vireos, going at it right through the heat of the afternoon. 5. And in the blow-your-mind-away category, no fewer than nine (9)--you read that right--Summer Tanagers at several stops along the Purgatoire River drainage at Beatty Canyon Ranch. Most were after-second-year males, but we saw females and a second-year-male, too. Who knew?--there's a place in Colorado where Summer Tanagers are as common as, or even more common than, such expected fare as Bullock's Orioles, Blue Grosbeaks, and Yellow-breasted Chats. And I know that many of you have many other great tales, involving Black Phoebes (quite a few were reported), a Merlin and a Gray Flycatcher, Red-necked Phalaropes and White-rumped Sandpipers, a couple of Scott's Orioles and Grace's Warblers, a Glossy Ibis, and a whole lot more. Bears, too, and Sandia hairstreaks; and the solar eclipse on Sunday afternoon was more impressive than I thought it would be. Oh, and one more thing. Hepatic Tanagers...in the plural. We took a bit of a risk with our totem species for the convention (view the gorgeous artwork here: http://cfobirds.org/convention/2012/index.htm); we just weren't sure if we'd find any. Instead, we found at least three, probably more, and they were (fairly) cooperative, probably viewed by more than 100 convention attendees. Ted Floyd tedfloy...@hotmail.com Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
[cobirds] Chestnut-sided Warbler- Chatfield
Hello all This morning at Chatfield state park in the Plum creek area South of the parking lot , west of the bridge. Was a Chestnut-sided Warbler. Along with a Hy-bred Indigo bunting and many yellow Warblers. Photos can be seen at the flickr site below. Loch Kilpatrick, Parker Co www.flickr.com/photos/lochkilpatrick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
[cobirds] owls
Hi all, The past few evenings I have been hearing a Flammulated Owl in RMNP. The first evening I was able to call it close enough to actually watch it fly by. He doesn't appear to have a mate yet, because I haven't herd a female calling. In this same area are several vocalizing Common Poorwills Also the pygmy-owls have hatched and will be fledging in less than three weeks. Scott Rashid Estes Park -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
[cobirds] Mountain Birding (Teller, Park and Summit)
For a change of pace I went into the mountains for some birding today. Manitou Lake in Teller was enjoyable as always with winnowing snipe and a nice assortment of dabblers. I missed the Night-Herons and didn't have many migrants. I did flush three shorebirds that left the area, two looked like phalarope in flight. I stopped by my family's cabin we used to own off of CR 92 near 11 mile res and in some steamside willows flushed a female LARK BUNTING, a good bird in the mountains. While driving along 11 mile I found a great looking MCCOWN'S LONGSPUR on a fence post. Ebird shows no records for anywhere in the mountains and it is not listed in the county checklist. Other prairie birds nest in south park could this bird be attempting to nest? I did not see or hear a second bird. A few ponds between Spinney Res and Hartsel held many Avocet and both Red-necked and Wilson's Phalarope. Antero was pretty slow although heat waves stopped me from seeing much of the shoreline. Seeing the hundreds of breeding Pelican was fun however. Finally some stops around Dillon Res (Summit) produced almost no birds. At a small trail into the willows in Frisco I did find Savannah Sparrow and a LARK SPARROW not sure how rare lark sparrows are at this elevation but I've never seen them in the area. All in all a fun day with great weather and good day for plains birds in the mountains. Nick Moore Boulder -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
[cobirds] Dixon Reservoir (Larimer)
There was a handsome male American Redstart this evening (5/19) at Dixon Reservoir in Fort Collins, in the wooded area north of the reservoir. Also a Wilson's Warbler and one or two Audubon's, among the many vocal Yellow Warblers. Neill Matheson Fort Collins -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
[cobirds] American Redstart, Cherry Creek, Arapahoe County
I had a singing male American Redstart at Cherry Creek this afternoon. He is presumably the same bird that spent well over a month there last summer. He is in the same spot and even using the same perches as last summer. About 100 yards west of the observation deck at the Prairie Loop parking area, there is a fallen tree across the path. He was singing in that area today. I never saw a female last year but I am hoping that he has more luck in that department this year! Jonathan Bowser Englewood, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
[cobirds] Two South Carolina birders RFI for June 16-23 Colorado trip
Colorado birders, Richard Hayes and I plan to do Jerry Cooper's Summer in Colorado week starting June 16. Many of you may be familiar with Cooper's Birdfinder book, published in 1995 by the ABA. We also have A Birder's guide to Colorado (1997) by Holt. Both of these are excellent but have not been recently revised. Our itinerary: Day 1- Pawnee Grasslands and Rocky Mt. NP Day 2- RMNP Day 3- RMNP and Golden Gate Canyon park Day 4- Hanging Lake (maybe not-I have a brokken ankle), Cameo, Colorado NM Day 5- Colorado NM, Grand Junction area Day 6 -Extra day Targets: Day 1- McCown's Chestnut-collard Longspurs. Lark Bunting, Mountain Plover Day 2- White-tailed Ptarmigan, Brown-capped Rosy-finch. probably can't hike to the Black Swift site (alas) Day 3-Dusky Flycatcher Day 4 5- Chukar, Sage Thrasher, Sage Sparrow, Juniper Titmouse, Gray Vireo, longshot at Sage Grouse Extra-whatever we miss. Might go up Mt. Evans for high-altitude stuff. Long shot possibles: Boreal and Flammulated Owls (yeah, I know they're really hard). Richard is an Air Force Academy grad and lived in Colorado Springs after retirement from the Air Force, but he only recently started birding. He's good, though. I've been at this since 1979 but haven't birded out west extensively. I've birded Mt. Evans and RMNP once for few days in September. Any tips/updates greatly appreciated, and we'd love to have company if you're free. We'll have a rental car. Thanks, Steve Compton Greenville,SC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
