[cobirds] Acorn Woodpecker, El Paso Cnty

[macawolf via Colorado Birds]

CoBirders,


For the 4th consecutive winter now a female Acorn Woodpecker has migrated north 
to sw Colorado Springs, and can be viewed at the usual spot & time (Dec-March?) 
along Cheyenne Blvd between the two ends of Willow Circle--mostly in or behind 
the side yard at 1804 Cheyenne Blvd. I discovered she was back again on Friday, 
and on Saturday my CO Spgs CBC's Area 11 crew was able to see & hear her again 
for count-day.


This is private property, but as long as you stay on the side of Cheyenne Blvd 
or on Willow Circle you can quietly view this bird. There is a wooden privacy 
fence around the side and back of the yard, and a line of inflatable 
snowmen/grinches/etc across the front. From Willow Circle most can probably see 
the necessary feeders over the fence, or you can discreetly peer between the 
inflatables out front. If at first you don't succeed, take a coffee & treat 
break (or breakfast) across the street at Sacred Grounds coffee shop, then try 
again. 


Apparently the bird has excavated a winter-vacation roosting home in one of two 
large trees behind the 1804 lot, just along the northeast edge of Willow 
Circle, and when flying in from elsewhere in the neighborhood it often stages 
from these two trees down to the many feeders in the 1804 yard. The owner, 
Michael Finlay, thinks the bird is caching whole peanuts rather than its 
species' typical acorns, but also likes to dine in-yard on suet and peanut 
butter. Please visit respectfully, individually or in very small groups. The 
neighborhood hosts have apparently named her "Ruby," and are very proud but 
protective.


Here's a link to a couple of pics: 
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1smz5c0uy11tktm,wwl4ia9ib26c6r8/shared


Marty Wolf
NW CO Spgs




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[cobirds] Larimer Mew Gulls

[Nick Komar]

Late this afternoon, two immature Mew Gulls were among several hundred 
Ring-billed Gulls at Horseshoe Lake (farm pond at northeast corner). This is 
west of Boyd Lake in northeast Loveland. One was first-cycle (i.e. 6 months 
old) and one was second-cycle (i.e. 18 months old). I will post a photo of the 
young one on the CFO Facebook page shortly and on eBird. 

Nick Komar
Fort Collins CO

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[cobirds] Redpoll - Golden - Jeffco

[Ira Sanders]

Birders
The Redpoll has just put in an appearance on the thistle feeders.

Ira Sanders
Golden

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[cobirds] Prairie Falcon at yesterday's Pueblo Res CBC & Merlin in Canon City 2 weeks ago

[SeEttaM .]

I found a pretty Prairie Falcon in Pueblo West on the Pueblo Reservoir CBC
yesterday and have uploaded a couple of nice pics of this bird to my Birds
and Nature blog.

 And I found a Taiga Merlin while on the Canon City Riverwalk almost 2
weeks ago but right before my computer stopped working.  Finally got it
back from the shop and running almost good (it has eaten photos twice-thank
goodness for SanDisk Rescue Pro Deluxe for recovering a whole bunch of
photos).  I was able to watch this Merlin for a full half hour.  While it
just perched and looked around for much of that my patience was rewarded by
a fantastic acrobatic flight show.  I got a number of good pics that I have
also uploaded to my blog.   Unfortunately I have not seen this Merlin
since.

SeEtta Moss
Canon City
http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com

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[cobirds] Chatfield SP (Douglas Co) - long-tailed duck

[Scott Somershoe]

About 2:30 pm I relocated one of the Long-tailed Ducks reported yesterday from 
the handicapped fishermans area by the marina. The bird was way out with the 
hordes of common mergs. One bonapartes gull flew around. I also saw a leucistic 
grebe, presumably western. The bird was with other westerns. The birds' head is 
all white and rest of the body is very light gray, making it really really hard 
to spot in the overcast and drizzly conditions. I saw the bird pop up while 
looking at other birds thru my scope. Blink and it's almost gone. Neat bird. No 
photos tho. 

Good birding,
Scott Somershoe
Littleton CO

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[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 20 December 2015

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler:   Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date:  December 20, 2015
This is the Rare Bird Alert, Sunday, December 20, sponsored by Denver Field
Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.

Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species).

Trumpeter Swan (*Boulder, Grand, Mesa, Weld)
Tundra Swan (*Boulder, *Larimer)
White-winged Scoter (*Arapahoe, Jefferson, Otero)
Black Scoter (Otero)
Long-tailed Duck (Arapahoe, El Paso, Logan/Sedgwick, Pueblo, Weld)
Barrow's Goldeneye (Arapahoe, Chaffee, Larimer, Moffat)
Pacific Loon (Bent, Larimer)
Red-necked Grebe (Larimer)
Dunlin (Larimer)
Thayer's Gull (Adams, Arapahoe,  Boulder, Larimer, Otero)
Iceland Gull (Arapahoe)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Adams, Arapahoe, El Paso, Larimer, Pueblo,
Washington, Weld)
Glaucous Gull (Arapahoe, Larimer)
Great Black-backed Gull (Douglas, Larimer, Pueblo)
Greater Roadrunner (Bent)
SNOWY OWL (Denver, Adams)
Burrowing Owl (Denver)
White-throated Swift (*Pueblo)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Bent)
Black Phoebe (Fremont)
Eastern Phoebe (El Paso, Weld)
Chihuahuan Raven (El Paso)
Canyon Wren (*Pueblo)
Winter Wren (El Paso, Pueblo, Washington)
Varied Thrush (Grand)
Curve-billed Thrasher (Bent, El Paso, Weld)
Lapland Longspur (Denver, Yuma)
Chestnut-collared Longspur (Weld)
Snow Bunting (Denver, Weld)
Yellow-throated Warbler (*Larimer)
Canyon Towhee (Bent)
Red Fox Sparrow (*Denver, Morgan, Yuma)
GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW (*Boulder, *Pueblo)
Lazuli Bunting (*Larimer)
EASTERN MEADOWLARK (Morgan)
Rusty Blackbird (Pueblo)
Brown-capped Rosy-Finch (Boulder, Grand, Jefferson)
Black Rosy-Finch (Grand, Jefferson, Weld)
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (Grand, Jefferson, Weld)
PURPLE FINCH (Bent, El Paso)
White-winged Crossbill (Clear Creek)
Common Redpoll (Bent, *Jefferson, *Larimer, Yuma)

ADAMS COUNTY:
--A Lesser Black-backed Gull was reported by Ira Sanders at Barr Lake SP on
November 28.  A Lesser Black-backed Gull was reported by Kevin Keirn at
Barr Lake SP on Decenber 5.  On December 6, Scott Manwaring reported Lesser
Black-backed Gull and Thayer's Gull at Barr Lake SP.  On December 10, David
Dowell reported 4 Lesser Black-backed Gulls and 1 ad Thayer's Gull at Barr
Lake SP.  On December 12, Candice Johnson reported Lesser Black-backed Gull
at Barr Lake.  On December 13, Sue Riffe reported 3 Lesser Black-backed
Gulls at Barr Lake
--A SNOWY OWL was reported by Bill Hutchinson and Jonnie Thompson somewhere
in Adams County on December 5.

ARAPAHOE COUNTY:.
--On November 27, Gene Rutherford and Craig Rasmussen reported Glaucous
Gull at Cherry Creek SP.  On December 9, Bob Righter reported Glaucous Gull
at Cherry Creek SP.
--On December 6, Scott Somershoe reported ad Lesser Black-backed Gull and
Thayer's Gull at Cherry Creek SP.
--On December 6, Glenn Walbek reported Long-tailed Duck at Cherry Creek SP.
--On December 12, Glenn Walbek reported f Long-tailed Duck, Barrow's
Goldeneye, ad Glaucous Gull, and ad Lesser Black-backed Gull at Cherry
Creek SP.  On December 14, Bob Righter reported f-type Long-tailed Duck at
Cherry Creek Reservoir.
--A White-winged Scoter was reported by Tim King at South Platte Reservoir
on December 14.  On December 18, Charles Lawrence reported White-winged
Scoter at South Platte Reservoir.
--On December 18 at Aurora Reservoir, David Dowell reported 1 ad Iceland
Gull (Kumlieni), 2 Thayer's Gulls (1 ad, 1 juv), and 2 ad Lesser
Black-backed Gulls.
--A White-winged Scoter was reported by Scott Somershoe at McLellan
Reservoir on December 19.

BENT COUNTY:
--On November 16, Duane Nelson reported that he has had f-type PURPLE
FINCH, m Red-bellied Woodpecker, Curve-billed Thrasher, and Canyon Towhees
visit his feeders in Las Animas.  Birders are welcome if you notify Duane
in advance at dnelson1 ATcenturytel.net  On November 19, Duane Nelson
reported that the f-type PURPLE FINCH returned and the other birds continue.
--Duane Nelson reported 3 Canyon Towhees, 1 Curve-billed Thrasher, and 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker at his feeder on December 15 for the John Martin
CBC.  Also found on the count were 2 Roadrunners, Pacific Loon, and Kathy
Mihm Dunning photographed a Common Redpoll.

BOULDER COUNTY:
--On November 24, Stephen Knox reported Golden-crowned Sparrow at Teller
Farm.On November 27, Ted Floyd and Tracy Pheneger reported Golden-crowned
Sparrow at Teller Farm.  On December 6, Jack B, holdne Maxfield, and Ryan
Bushong reported Golden-crowned Sparrow at Teller Farm.  On December 19
Steve Frye reported Golden-crowned Sparrow at Teller Farm.
--Ted Floyd reported an ad Lesser Black-backed Gull at Waneka Lake on
December 2.
--On December 6, Carl Starace reported 3 Brown-capped Rosy-Finch at
Allenspark.
--On December 9, Carl Starace reported a pair of Trumpeter Swans and W end
of Burch Lake.  Burch Lake is S of Hwy 66 and just W of N 75th in
Longmont.  On December 10, John Vanderpoel reported pair of Trumpeter Swans
at Burch Lake.
--On December 17, Bill Kaempfer reported Tundra Swan at Valmont Complex.
--On 

[cobirds] Denver CBC Results (Denver, Jefferson, Douglas, Arapahoe Counties)

[Joey Kellner]

 

A great turnout in participants this year helped us reach an initial tally 
of 104 species!  One count area (of 23 in the field) has not yet reported 
and there are a number of Feeder Watchers that will be submitting their 
reports in the days ahead, so the total may rise a species or two.

 

THANK YOU to everyone that brought main dishes, drink, snacks and desserts 
to the great potluck compilation meeting!  

 

Highlights for the day were:

 

Hermit Thrush - 1 @ Chatfield (seen on only 5 of the past 61 prior counts)

Bonaparte's Gull - 1 @ Chatfield (only the second time record on the Denver 
CBC)

*WHITE-WINGED SCOTER* - 1 McClellan Reservoir -(Seen on only 5 prior counts)

 This bird seems to have moved the prior night (day?) from South Platte 
Park Reservoir to McClellan Reservoir (just east of Santa Fe on County Line 
Road)

Lesser Goldfinch - multiple reports (seen on 11 prior counts)

Green-tailed Towhee - 1 (seen on 12 prior counts)

Say's Phoebe - 1 (seen on only 8 prior counts)

*LONG_TAILED DUCK* - 2 (seen on 11 prior counts, interestingly the high 
count was 5 back in 1980)

 

Of note was a *schistacea *(mountain race) Fox Sparrow seen in the Bear 
Creek area.  Unusual for this race to remain in Colorado in the winter.


Thankfully there was open water for lingering birds like Common Loons, 
Western, Horned, Eared and Pied-billed Grebes, Double-crested Cormorant, 
Black-crowned Night Heron, etc. that helped.  A "Count Week" (see below) 
Greater White-fronted Goose was nice.  Harris's and Swamp Sparrows helped 
bring the low sparrow totals up.


*One group witnessed an amazing thing:  An adult Golden Eagle carrying off 
with a Red-tailed Hawk in its talons!!!  WOW!!!*

 

REMEMBER - There are still three days remaining to include "Count Week" 
birds!  Count Week (CW) birds are birds found three days prior and post 
Count Day that were NOT seen on the Count Day itself.  If you believe you 
have seen a CW species, please let me know so that I may include it in this 
year's final report.

 

Thanks again to all the wonderful volunteers that helped with this year's 
CBC!

 

Joey Kellner

Compiler - Denver CBC

Littleton, Colorado

 

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[cobirds] Juvenile Snowy Owl Chatfield State Park Douglas County

[Steve Stachowiak]

Cobirders,

Driving out of the south entrance road at Chatfield after the excellent 
Denver CBC compilation pot luck (thanks Joey, Cheryl and Dan!), I flushed a 
juvenile Snowy Owl along the road just south of the entrance station.  The 
bird flew to the east towards Plum Creek.  Initial searches this morning 
have not been successful in relocating the bird.

Good Birding,
Steve Stachowiak
Highlands Ranch, CO

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[cobirds] Golden-crowned Sparrow Teller Farm 12/20

[snowy.owlets]

Hi Everyone, 

I'm posting from the north trailhead of Teller Farm in Boulder. The adult 
Golden-crowned Sparrow has been here since about 12:15 with Harris's, 
White-crowned, Song, and Am. Tree Sparrows. 

Mark Miller 
Longmont, CO 


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