Re: [cobirds] Great-horned Owls--started hooting (Denver Co)

[Greg Pasquariello]

Began hearing them last week in Sterling Ranch/Chatfield.  Had a pair dueting 
the night before last.

Regards
-Greg Pasquariello
Sterling Ranch CO

> On Sep 21, 2018, at 8:04 PM, Robert Righter  wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> On recent, loosening up the back, evening walks around the greater DU area in 
> Denver, I’ve detected Great-horned Owls hooting starting at 7PM and 
> continuing. Actually I’ve heard them hooting, to a lesser degree, during the 
> day. The extent of their hooting suggest they are already setting up 
> territories, the end of September! Anyone else hearing them?
> 
> Bob Righter
> Denver, CO 
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[cobirds] Great-horned Owls--started hooting (Denver Co)

[Robert Righter]

Hi

On recent, loosening up the back, evening walks around the greater DU area in 
Denver, I’ve detected Great-horned Owls hooting starting at 7PM and continuing. 
Actually I’ve heard them hooting, to a lesser degree, during the day. The 
extent of their hooting suggest they are already setting up territories, the 
end of September! Anyone else hearing them?

Bob Righter
Denver, CO 

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[cobirds] Bird & Nature events this weekend at Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County

[Ted Floyd]

Hey, everybody.

The City of Lafayette & partners will be hosting a series of birding and 
nature study events this coming weekend, Sept. 22-23.

First up, tomorrow evening, Saturday, is a lantern walk followed by an 
introduction to the songs of insects. We'll listen for "The Big 5" at this 
time of the year: Snowy Tree Cricket, Fall Field Cricket, Allard's Ground 
Cricket, Greater Anglewing Katydid, and Plains Harvest Fly. Expect to hear 
other insects, especially various ground crickets and katydids. The event 
gets underway at 6:30 pm at the Waneka Lake boat house, directly south of 
Greenlee Preserve.

On Sunday afternoon, starting at 1pm, the city will be hosting its 5th 
annual Bird Migration Celebration, starting at 1pm. Short bird walks will 
be going out of Greenlee Preserve. Also there will be booths, vendors, 
raptors, schwag, and more. Some of the common birds of late around Greenlee 
Preserve & environs have included Swainson's Hawk, Snowy Egret, Say's 
Phoebe, Bushtit, and Lesser Goldfinch. And Wilson's Warblers galore. We 
always find something interesting on September bird walks at the preserve!

All events are free and open to the public.

Hope to see you there!

Ted Floyd
Lafayette, Boulder County

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[cobirds] Connected Lakes State Park Banding Update

[Adam Cupito]

Hi everyone, I've just wrapped up the first week of banding at Connected 
Lakes State Park in Grand Junction. Mesa County has been in an extreme 
drought and has had a record-breaking summer in terms of heat, which 
explains the low numbers of birds moving through so far. Overall it's been 
very slow here, and we've had to close nets early every day due to heat. 
Nonetheless, I banded 42 birds of 17 species over the past 5 days, which 
included 2 returning Spotted Towhees from 2017. The following species 
account represents the effort of 190 net hours at this site. 

Wilson's Warbler: 12

White-crowned Sparrow (Gambel’s): 6

Spotted Towhee: 3
Brewer's Sparrow: 3
Black-capped Chickadee: 3

Orange-crowned Warbler: 3

MacGillivray's Warbler: 2

Townsend’s Warbler: 1

Song Sparrow: 1

Hammond’s Flycatcher: 1

Lincoln's Sparrow: 1

Warbling Vireo: 1
House Finch: 1
Yellow Warbler: 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher: 1

Red-naped Sapsucker: 1

Ruby-crowned Kinglet: 1

Spotted Towhee - 2 returns from 2017

I will be running the station every week day until October 12th, and there 
will also be a public banding day on the morning of Saturday, September 
29th. Hope to see you there!

Adam Cupito
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies


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[cobirds] Bird Conservancy Banding Report - Barr Lake Station, 9/21/18

[Meredith . McBurney]

Our first really slow day this season.  Wind started up about 8:30 and grew 
as the morning went on and that didn't help, but even before the wind it 
seemed very quiet.  Only 15 new birds today:

House Wren 1
Hermit Thrush 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 1
MacGillivray's Warbler 1
Wilson's Warbler 2
Yellow-breasted Chat 1
Chipping Sparrow 4
Song Sparrow 1
Lincoln's Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco, Oregon 1

We are open 6 days per week, Tuesday-Sunday, weather permitting, through 
October 14. We are opening nets at 6:30 and should have birds back at the 
station by 7:15. We will close most days by about 11:30, earlier as long as 
this heat continues. School groups arrive most weekdays at about 9:30. The 
best time to visit (fewest people, most birds) is before 9:30 weekdays and 
Sundays. 
 
Come visit!
 
Meredith McBurney
Bander
Barr Lake Station
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies

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[cobirds] Bird Conservancy Banding Report Chico Basin Ranch - 9/21/18

[Kim Geissler]

We had pretty high diversity at the banding station today. The first 
Red-breasted Nuthatch and Townsend's Solitaire of the season were banded. 
The totals for the day were 64 birds of 16 species plus a recap Hammond's 
Flycatcher that was banded yesterday.

Here's the summary of newly banded birds for the day:
Wilson's Warbler: 25
Orange-crowned Warbler: 10
Western Flycatcher: 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet: 4
Audubon's Warbler: 3
House Wren: 1
Red-breasted Nuthatch: 1
Cassin's Vireo: 1
Lincoln's Sparrow: 2
Hermit Thrush: 7
Song Sparrow: 1
Western Tanager: 2
Townsend's Solitaire: 1
Blue Grosbeak: 2
Spotted Towhee: 1
American Robin: 2

You are welcome to visit the banding station. I'll be banding through the 
first week of October and nets will be open 6 days a week (Monday through 
Saturday). This week I'm opening nets at 6:50 and banding until 11:50 
weather permitting.

Kim Geissler
Bander
Chico Basin Ranch Station
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies

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[cobirds] Ruby-throated Hummingbird, Jefferson County

[Tina Jones]

Hi all,

I have been gone all morning.  The hummer is being seen at the back feeder. 
After looking at some great photos of the bird, I see some details which I 
could not pick up before. The pictures show no buff edging on the upperparts, 
which make's me say this is most likely an adult female. Again, short to medium 
size bill, black lores, very, very white underparts, notched tail, emerald 
green upperparts, with primary 10 being narrowed at the tip, more so than the 
tip of Primary 9. Tail is longer than wing tips when the bird is sitting. Bird 
looks to me to be sort of chunky.


PLEASE, first email me, or leave a phone message, as to when you might stop by. 
You do not need to hear back from me.


I appreciate you viewing from where the chairs are located. Do not walk around 
the yard or move the chairs. I have them located at a distance that the 
Hummingbird is comfortable with.


I may not be home tomorrow to post, so if someone sees this bird, feel free to 
post.


Happy Birding!

Tina Jones

4400 Bow Mar Dr.

Littleton, CO, Jefferson County

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[cobirds] Ruby-throated Hummer - Yes

[Ira Sanders]

Birders
The RTHU is still at Tina Jones.

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[cobirds] White-faced Ibis [Weld]

['The "Nunn Guy"' via Colorado Birds]

Hi all

One this morning at pond north of Weld CR 86 along Weld CR 13 (or the 
Weld-Larimer County line road). Also, had Winter Wren at house last two 
days.

Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn
http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/

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[cobirds] Sedge Wren Pueblo County

[David Tønnessen]

Birders,
There is currently a Sedge Wren below the dam on the Southeast side of Rose 
Pond in the Pueblo portion of Chico Basin Ranch (today 9/21). It has been 
silent for a few minutes now but for a while was actively chipping and popped 
up for views a few times. It likes the dense Russian thistle and sedges 
clustered there.


Good Birding,
David Tonnessen
Colorado Springs 

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[cobirds] Jaeger photos from Pueblo Res.

[Brandon]

I was able to see all three jaegers at Pueblo Reservoir yesterday
afternoon, and I think the lighter one is a Long tailed and the darker one
is a Parastic.  I wasn't able to photograph the third jaeger, it was very
far away.  Happy some expert birders were able to see the jaegers
yesterday.  Good luck to anyone trying today and over the weekend, I won't
be able to help people this weekend.

Brandon K. Percival
Pueblo West, CO

Sent from my Android

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[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 21 September 2018

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org

This is the Date: September 21, 2018

Rare Bird Alert for Friday, September 21 sponsored by Denver Field
Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.

Note that the RBA is using the new AOU checklist.
Rare and out of range species for the last seven days include: (*indicates
new information on this species)

Snow Goose (Prowers)
Cackling Goose (*Larimer)
Cinnamon Teal (*Larimer, Otero)
Greater Scaup (*Delta)
Ruddy Duck (Gunnison)
Common Nighthawk (*Boulder, *Weld)
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD (*Jefferson, Prowers)
Virginia Rail (Gunnison)
Sora (Kiowa, *Larimer)
Black-necked Stilt (Kiowa, Mesa, Otero, Pueblo)
American Avocet (Baca, *Gunnison, Otero)
Black-bellied Plover (Morgan)
American Golden-Plover (Kiowa)
Long-billed Curlew (*Costilla)
Marbled Godwit (Larimer, Otero, Weld)
Stilt Sandpiper (*Jefferson, *Larimer, Otero)
Sanderling (Kiowa, Larimer)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Larimer, Otero)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Larimer)
Solitary Sandpiper (Gunnison, Las Animas, Mesa)
Willet (Washington)
Red-necked Phalarope (Hinsdale, Otero, Pueblo)
Red Phalarope (Kiowa)
Parasitic Jaeger (*Pueblo)
Long-tailed Jaeger (*Pueblo)
Sabine’s Gull (*Costilla)
Bonaparte’s Gull (Kiowa)
Mew Gull (Larimer)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Pueblo)
Great Black-backed Gull (Douglas)
Caspian Tern (Washington)
Black Tern (Kiowa, Otero, Pueblo)
Common Tern (*Jefferson, Kiowa, *Larimer, *Pueblo)
American Bittern (Kiowa)
Great Egret (El Paso, Montezuma)
Snowy Egret (Baca)
Little Blue Heron (Weld)
Green Heron (Denver)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Montezuma)
White-faced Ibis (*Gunnison, Hinsdale, Kiowa, Montezuma, Otero, *Pueblo,
Routt)
Osprey (Larimer)
Mississippi Kite (Baca)
Broad-winged Hawk (Boulder, Kiowa, Larimer)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (La Plata)
Red-headed Woodpecker (Larimer)
Red-naped Sapsucker (Bent, *El Paso, Gunnison, Pueblo, *Weld)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (*El Paso, Pueblo)
Downy Woodpecker (Adams, Larimer, Otero, Pueblo)
Olive-sided Flycatcher (Mesa, Pueblo, *Teller)
Hammond’s Flycatcher (*Delta, *El Paso, Larimer, Weld)
Gray Flycatcher (*Adams, *Boulder, Pueblo, Weld)
Dusky Flycatcher (*El Paso, *Larimer, Weld)
Cordilleran Flycatcher (Mesa, Montezuma)
Eastern Phoebe (El Paso, *Jefferson)
Cassin’s Kingbird (*Weld)
Western Kingbird (Summit)
Eastern Kingbird (Larimer)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Pueblo)
Loggerhead Shrike (*Boulder)
Gray Vireo (Mesa)
Cassin’s Vireo (*Alamosa, *El Paso, Kiowa, *Larimer, Mesa)
Warbling Vireo (Summit)
Red-eyed Vireo (Adams)
Pinyon Jay (Mesa)
Steller’s Jay (Mesa)
Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay (El Paso, Mesa, Montezuma)
Violet-green Swallow (Weld)
Marsh Wren (Arapahoe, *El Paso, *Larimer, Pueblo)
Bewick’s Wren (Las Animas, Pueblo)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (*Adams,*Boulder,  Kiowa, *Larimer, Mesa, Phillips,
Washington, *Weld)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (*Delta, San Juan)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (*Adams, *Delta, *El Paso, Gilpin, *Larimer, *Weld)
Eastern Bluebird (*Douglas)
Swainson’s Thrush (El Paso, *Weld)
Hermit Thrush (*Adams, *El Paso, Larimer, Weld)
Curve-billed Thrasher (*El Paso, Pueblo)
Brown Thrasher (*Adams, *El Paso, Kiowa, *Larimer, Prowers, Pueblo, *Weld)
Sage Thrasher (*Adams, Baca, *Boulder, *El Paso, Gilpin, *Larimer, *Pueblo)
Red Crossbill (*Delta, Gilpin, *Teller)
Lesser Goldfinch (Pitkin)
Chipping Sparrow (El Paso)
Clay-colored Sparrow (*Adams, Baca, *Boulder, *El Paso, Kiowa, *Jefferson,
*Larimer, Otero, Pueblo)
Brewer’s Sparrow (Adams, *Boulder, *El Paso, *Jefferson, Kiowa, Weld)
Lark Bunting (Baca, *Boulder, El Paso)
Savannah Sparrow (Baca, *Jefferson, Pueblo)
Fox Sparrow (San Juan)
Lincoln’s Sparrow (*Adams, *El Paso, Gunnison, *Jefferson, Kiowa, *Larimer,
Pueblo, *Weld)
Yellow-breasted Chat (Boulder, El Paso, Ouray)
Northern Waterthrush (*Adams, *Douglas, La Plata)
Black-and-white Warbler (Boulder, Weld)
Nashville Warbler (Larimer)
Magnolia Warbler (El Paso, Kiowa)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (Prowers)
Blackpoll Warbler (Phillips)
Palm Warbler (Pueblo)
Black-throated Gray Warbler (El Paso, Montezuma, Weld)
Townsend’s Warbler (El Paso, Larimer)
Scarlet Tanager (Pueblo)
Black-headed Grosbeak (*Larimer)
Indigo Bunting (Kiowa, Yuma)
Dickcissel (Pueblo)

ADAMS COUNTY:
---On September 18 at Barr Lake Banding Station, Meredith McBurney banded
Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Brewer’s Sparrow, and 2 Lincoln’s Sparrows.  On
September 19 at Barr Lake Banding Station, Meredith McBurney banded Downy
Woodpecker, Red-eyed Vireo, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 3 Hermit Thrush, Brewer’s
Sparrow.  On September 20 at Barr Lake Banding Station, Colin Woolley
reported Gray Flycatcher, 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet,
Hermit Thrush, 2 Brown Thrasher, Clay-colored Sparrow, 3 Lincoln’s Sparrow;
Woolledy banded Northern Waterthrush which was also seen by Soren Dinsmore
and Tracy Rackauskas.  On September 20 at Barr Lake Banding Station,
Meredith McBurney banded Gray Flycatcher, Hermit Thrush, Brown Thrasher,
Northern Waterthrush, 2 Clay-colored Sparrow, 2 Lincoln Sparrow.

ALAMOSA COUNTY: