Re: [cobirds] Holiday Colorado birds
Very Nice!! Steve Larson Northglenn CO - Original Message - From: "Wilberding, Tom" To: "COBirds" Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 5:48:22 PM Subject: [cobirds] Holiday Colorado birds Red white & blue—2:40 minutes: http://bit.ly/1vz2wdp Happy Fourth! Tom Wilberding Boulder, CO -- 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com . To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com . To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/61f37910-063d-416e-9bdd-276a504cab9c%40googlegroups.com . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout . -- 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/1087116178.16094189.1404435404173.JavaMail.root%40comcast.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[cobirds] Holiday Colorado birds
Red white & blue—2:40 minutes: http://bit.ly/1vz2wdp Happy Fourth! Tom Wilberding Boulder, CO -- 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/61f37910-063d-416e-9bdd-276a504cab9c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[cobirds] Fwd: [NEBirds] More Sarpy Co. BROWN BOOBY Info
Co birders, A brown booby was recently seen in Eastern Nebraska. See below for details. Definitely falls into the anything is possible category. David Ely Salem, MA Begin forwarded message: > From: david...@comcast.net > Date: July 3, 2014 at 6:33:36 PM EDT > To: mountainplo...@gmail.com > Subject: Fwd: [NEBirds] More Sarpy Co. BROWN BOOBY Info > > > > > > From: "Justin Rink spindali...@yahoo.com [NEBirds]" > To: nebi...@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, July 3, 2014 6:06:00 PM > Subject: [NEBirds] More Sarpy Co. BROWN BOOBY Info > > Yesterday I received an email from Dan Cassidy who works at Henry Doorly > Zoo in Omaha. He later sent some photos taken at Hansen Lakes by a friend of > his. The four photos clearly showed an adult male BROWN BOOBY of nominate > Atlantic race leucogaster sitting on a boat covered by a tarp. > After talking to this friend of his named Joan on the phone I discovered > that the bird was observed Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. She thought it was > odd and took photos on Sunday. She then subsequently showed them to Dan and > other zoo personnel. > > The photos do not show any sign of a band, and Joan mentioned that she > observed the bird several times diving and catching fish. > > The closest this species has come to Nebraska is southern Arkansas (adult > female). There are NO records for the Midwest or western Great Lakes region. > An adult female was observed at Niagra, New York on October 13, 2013. > Another bird was apparently observed an documented in inland North Carolina > close to the Virginia border. This bird is an occasional visitor to the warm > waters off of southern Florida and the Gulf Stream. A few coastal Texas > records also exist The Atlantic race breeds as close to the U.S. as the > Caribbean. The western subspecies is sometimes observed in Arizona and > California, and nests on an island just south of San Diego in Baja California > Norte, Mexico. > > If accepted this will constitute the first Sulid for the state of Nebraska. > Thanks to Dan Cassidy for alerting me to this. > > Good birding. > > Justin Rink > Midtown, Omaha, Douglas Co., NE > spindali...@yahoo.com > > > __._,_.___ > Posted by: Justin Rink > Reply via web post• Reply to sender • Reply to group • > Start a New Topic • Messages in this topic (1) > VISIT YOUR GROUP New Members 1 New Photos 3 > • Privacy • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use > > . > > > __,_._,___ -- 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/FB855EFD-8B69-496D-93AE-EA9DEFCD3C4B%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [cobirds] Barr Lake, Adams County, July 2
Ted, you were asking what was up with the cackling geese hanging out here for the summer. I have up to 800 geese on the townhouse property where I live near Littleton in the winter time, many of them being the lesser forms. By migration time, March or so, all of those geese leave with just the 50 Resident Giesting. For the first time in the 11 years that I've been here, a pair of lesser Canada geese and a greater white fronted goose stayed here. I was surprised by that. They didn't have any offspring, but did seem to be accepted by the other geese. Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colorado. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 3, 2014, at 6:05 AM, Ted Floyd wrote: > > Hello, Birders. > > I had an errand yesterday, Wednesday, July 2, at Barr Lake, Adams County. > Convenient place for a birder to have an errand, eh? > > The very first bird I saw was a Cackling Goose. Photo here: > http://tinyurl.com/Cackling-Barr-Lake Cathy Sheeter tells me there have a few > here this summer. To which I say: What's up with that? > > The only nuthatch I saw and heard was a good match for Rocky Mountain > Nuthatch. And what, pray tell, is a Rocky Mountain Nuthatch? Well, Colorado's > own peripatetic Steve Mlodinow has a handy primer in this month's Birding > magazine, published by the American Birding Association, on how to separate > the Carolina, Rocky Mountain, and Slender-billed nuthatches, two taxa of > which occur regularly in Colorado. Here is a link to a PDF download of > Steve's article: > > http://aba.org/birding/2014-MAY-JUN/14-3_08Mlodinow-R4.pdf > > All four of the vireos I saw and heard were good phenotypic matches for > Eastern Warbling-Vireo. Here's audio of a Rocky Mountain Nuthatch with a > descant from an Eastern Warbling-Vireo: > > https://soundcloud.com/ted-floyd/wbnu-ls101522 > > Barr Lake is a great venue for appreciating the East-meets-West aspect of > Colorado birding. > > Complete eBird checklist here: > http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18972990 > > Ted Floyd > > Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado > > > -- > 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/4c64d379-f04b-404a-ac29-ed581b0e0483%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/F79C516B-539D-40B4-9ED7-F1ABEDDD6875%40aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[cobirds] Red Cliff BBS route, Eagle; loon, Summit.
We came back last night tired from the Red Cliff BBS survey -- which starts at the top of Vail Pass and goes down Shrine Pass road, then up Homestake Creek. The scenery makes the 3 a.m. get-out-of-bed worth it -- along with a few mountain birds. We saw several Pine Grosbeaks including a group of three that flushed in front of our car but disappeared when I looked for them at the official stop. A fair number of Hermit Thrushes - always a treat to hear their song -- and a couple of singing Swainson's Thrushes. Lots of Pine siskins, more than we ordinarily encounter. And fewer White-crowned Sparrows, I think, but a normal number of Lincoln's. Three Fox Sparrows heard but not seen along Homestake Creek. Both July 1 and 2, not on the route, a Common Loon on Dillon Reservoir, in basic plumage. Hugh Kingery Franktown, CO -- 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/8D164F120726EA4-264C-A593%40webmail-m252.sysops.aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[cobirds] rufous hummingbird/Centenial/Arapahoe
To add to the migration reports: I just (0850) had a spectacular adult male rufous hummingbird briefly at my feeder. Note also: I have had both black-chinned and broad-tailed here intermittently for the past month. Karl Stecher Centennial/Arapahoe near Colorado Blvd and Orchard -- 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/20140703153246.15903522036%40mailhost.idcomm.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert for July 3
Compiler: Joe Roller Date: July 3, 2014 email: rba AT cfobirds.org This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, July 3, updated at 0620, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. It's vacation time so Howdy and Welcome to birders visiting Colorado! Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species.) Barrow's Goldeneye (*Clear Creek) Red-necked Grebe (Jackson) Least Tern (Logan) EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE (Larimer) Black Phoebe (Boulder) Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (*Baca) Red-eyed Vireo (Boulder) Purple Martin (Gunnison) Blue-winged Warbler (Jefferson) McCown's Longspurs (*Weld) White-winged Crossbill (Park, Boulder) *Migration notes: Rufous and Calliope Hummingbirds* are humming in the Centennial State, in small numbers on private property. *Shorebirds *are starting to come through. Kibbe found Willets and Marbled Godwits among other species in *Adams *County, along Tower Road (midway between E. 96th and E. 104th Ave). Use caution when parking, as traffic is heavy. Peterson found a similar batch of shorebirds, with 142 Marbled Godwits, at Big Johnson reservoir in *El Paso* County. BACA COUNTY: --Janeal Thompson reported a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher at a private residence on July 2. She kindly provided her email address ( prairiestarflo...@gmail.com) so you can contact her and seek permission to visit. BOULDER COUNTY: --A lone White-winged Crossbill was reported by Dowell where the road to Long and Mitchell Lakes branches off the loop road on the west side of Brainard Lake on June 25. --Ron Bolton reported a Red-eyed Vireo at Golden Ponds in Longmont, on the path between the ponds and the creek, on June 27. --On June 30 Starace noted that a Black Phoebe (with an Eastern Phoebe) continued at the 75th St. crossing of Boulder Creek. A Black Phoebe has been hanging out along the creek since the spring. CLEAR CREEK COUNTY: -- Barrow's Goldeneye, four in number, continue to grace the waters of Echo Lake, on the shoulders of Mt. Evans, reported by Breitsch on June 24 and by Leatherman on June 26. GUNNISON COUNTY: -- Garrison reported Purple Martins on the north side of the Kebler Pass road, west of the Pretty Place road (near mile marker 11) on June 30. JACKSON COUNTY: --On June 18, Hundertmark reported that the pair of Red-necked Grebes continues incubating egg(s) on Lake John. He found them there again on June 28. JEFFERSON COUNTY: --A Blue-winged Warbler was discovered by Jones at Welchester Tree Grant Park on May 22, to the delight of many. It was most recently reported by Leatherman on June 26. Please let me know of any sightings or visits there with negative news. LARIMER COUNTY: --A singing EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE was reported by Mammoser on the Poudre River Bike Trail near Prospect Road on June 26 and reported again on June 27 just south of the Spring Creek footbridge by Komar. It may be easier to see from the Riverbend Ponds Natural Area. Later it was a bit farther north. Keirn et al saw it on June 29. Minner reported it on June 30, and Mammoser saw it nearby on July 1. LOGAN COUNTY: --Kaempfer reported a Least Tern in the SW corner of Jumbo Reservoir on June 28. PARK COUNTY: -- Hansley found White-winged Crossbills near Boreas Pass on June 26. They were about three miles south of the pass, along Park Co. Rd. 33, aka Rd. 404. From Denver take Hway 285 SW to the metropolis of Como, then follow signs for Boreas Pass or Rd. 33. The pass can also be reached from the north through Breckinridge. WELD COUNTY: --Leatherman found "good numbers" of McCown's Longspurs on Weld CR 120 between roads 55 and 67. This is usually not a big deal, but they have been hard to find this year, so out of state visitors take note. *DFO Field Trips:* *Saturday, July 5, Golden Gate Canyon State Park, Jefferson County* Leader: Paula Hansley, 720-890-2628, cell 303-263-1714 Trail: Easy hiking, 8000–9000 ft. RSVP required so leader can arrange carpools. Limit: 12 people Meet at 8 a.m. at Visitor’s Center in Golden Gate Canyon State Park, Jefferson and Gilpin counties for a trip lasting until after lunch. Habitats will include montane, riparian, and pine forest. A wide variety of mountain birds will be seen (many at their nests). Bring water, snacks, and lunch. Walking will be on easy trails, so light boots or sneakers will be fine. *Sunday, July 6, **Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER) near Pawnee Grasslands* Leaders: Amber Carver and Mary Cay Burger Trail: Moderate RSVP required to Mary Burger, 303-771-3431, Limit: 8 people Meet at the CPER field houses at 9:15 a.m. To get there from Denver, take I-25 north to Wellington (exit 278). After exiting, turn right and then take an immediate left onto the frontage road. After half a mile, turn right on CR 64 (labeled as “Nunn Road”). After 11.1 miles, you will have reached the town of Nunn. Turn left on U.S. 85. After 7.2 miles, turn right on CR 114. Take the first right (after 0.7 miles) down a dirt drivewa
[cobirds] Barr Lake, Adams County, July 2
Hello, Birders. I had an errand yesterday, *Wednesday, July 2,* at *Barr Lake, Adams County.* Convenient place for a birder to have an errand, eh? The very first bird I saw was a *Cackling Goose.* Photo here: http://tinyurl.com/Cackling-Barr-Lake Cathy Sheeter tells me there have a few here this summer. To which I say: What's up with that? The only nuthatch I saw and heard was a good match for *Rocky Mountain Nuthatch.* And what, pray tell, is a Rocky Mountain Nuthatch? Well, Colorado's own peripatetic Steve Mlodinow has a handy primer in this month's *Birding* magazine, published by the American Birding Association, on how to separate the Carolina, Rocky Mountain, and Slender-billed nuthatches, two taxa of which occur regularly in Colorado. Here is a link to a PDF download of Steve's article: http://aba.org/birding/2014-MAY-JUN/14-3_08Mlodinow-R4.pdf All four of the vireos I saw and heard were good phenotypic matches for *Eastern Warbling-Vireo.* Here's audio of a Rocky Mountain Nuthatch with a descant from an Eastern Warbling-Vireo: https://soundcloud.com/ted-floyd/wbnu-ls101522 Barr Lake is a great venue for appreciating the East-meets-West aspect of Colorado birding. Complete eBird checklist here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S18972990 Ted Floyd Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado -- 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/4c64d379-f04b-404a-ac29-ed581b0e0483%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
