[cobirds] Bees. Severance Co

2021-07-24 Thread 'Joan Glabach' via Colorado Birds 
We don’t have bumblebees this year.  We still have honeybees, but not as many 
as we used to have.  We had goldfinches nesting here this year and still have 
house finches and of course house sparrows.  We had one birdhouse that raised 
tree swallows.

Joan Glabach
Severance, CO

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[cobirds] Re: Jefferson, CO

2021-07-24 Thread Jennifer Powell 
I am in Jeffco as well, though a different part, in the neighborhoods just 
east of Standley Lake. We've been in this house over 20 years and I've been 
feeding the birds in my yard all that time.

This is the first year that house finches are almost entirely absent. 
Normally I'd have up to a dozen, all day every day, and they were part of a 
small flock that moved around the neighborhood.  Normally I'd have two or 
three black-capped chickadees as well, and then lots of random birds that 
pass through on their way to nesting habitats by the lake or into the 
mountains. But chickadees have also been nearly entirely absent this year, 
and I've seen very few randoms - no goldfinches, no towhees, no nuthatches, 
no downies. And the usual gang of summer blue jays is absent, although that 
has happened other years as well.

The finches are not totally gone. I do see an occasional finch or chickadee 
at my feeders. They don't look ill and I am not finding sick birds or 
bodies of birds. They simply aren't around.

I am still seeing doves in small numbers, and occasional hawks and crows 
overhead in fairly usual numbers but the regular small birds aren't here.

The only other observation I can report is that this year my yard is nearly 
empty of bees and other insects. Which surprised me because last year was a 
huge year for bees, with three species of bumblebees, some miner bee types 
(black and white), and literally hundreds of honeybees daily. This year, 
maybe two honeybees the entire season and not much else than a few small 
grasshoppers.

Jennifer Powell
Jeffco east of Standley Lake



On Friday, July 23, 2021 at 1:06:32 PM UTC-6 samat...@gmail.com wrote:

> Hello, 
>
> I wanted to share a conversation I had with a super nice lady who lives at 
> the house south of Highway 285 in Jefferson, Co. Many of you know the 
> “feeder” house for Rosy-Finches. She was telling me she use to get 
> “thousands” of Rosy-Finches at her feeders. While we didn’t talk about 
> current numbers, from my experience, substantially lower.
> She, also, commented on many fewer hummingbirds these last 2 years. 
>
> Side note: The cafe in Jefferson has tasty food made on the grill and made 
> to order burritos. Super friendly ladies working there. 
>
> Good birding y’all!
>
> Diane Roberts
> Highlands Ranch, CO
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Re: [cobirds] Re: Eastward Range extension.....

2021-07-24 Thread Diana Beatty 
If it is a long term phenomenon reaching a peak vs. short term, it may be
worthwhile to look at what has been happening with precipitation in the
longer term as well.  In general, the southern parts of the state are
getting drier.  Only the northern front range seems to be holding own or
even gaining slightly at this scale, perhaps - but this often includes the
northern mountain counties as well - an absence there may suggest net
precipitation is not the whole story but perhaps increases of extremes in
the fluctuations of it and sensitivity of certain habitats to those
extremes absent manipulations by man in urban areas where we artificially
add water to the system (although we may not be able to continue to do so
much longer) which can lead to extreme events like beetle kill, forest
fires, mismatch of food supply with timing, etc.:

https://www.weather5280.com/2021/07/21/analyzing-colorados-precipitation-trends-over-the-last-125-years

Diana Beatty
El Paso County

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 11:06 AM Robert Righter 
wrote:

> Hi:
>
> David Leatherman in his recent post pointed out detecting movement of
> traditional mountain and foothill species downslope to the plains. This
> phenomena has previously been posted on Cobirds this summer with observers
> commenting on how the mountain species are just not present in the numbers
> they use to be. Recently I was birding in Grand Co. and the sparsity
> of mountain species was impressive, the forests were very quiet.
> One possibly explanation could be since the West has been so dry for quite
> awhile and the abnormally high heat has just sucked the moisture right out
> of the ground dramatically affecting the soil composition and thus
> effecting the health of the forest and consequently it’s bird life?  Any
> other thoughts?
>
> Bob Righter
> Denver CO
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[cobirds] Re: Eastward Range extension.....

2021-07-24 Thread Robert Righter 
Hi:

David Leatherman in his recent post pointed out detecting movement of 
traditional mountain and foothill species downslope to the plains. This 
phenomena has previously been posted on Cobirds this summer with observers 
commenting on how the mountain species are just not present in the numbers they 
use to be. Recently I was birding in Grand Co. and the sparsity of mountain 
species was impressive, the forests were very quiet.
One possibly explanation could be since the West has been so dry for quite 
awhile and the abnormally high heat has just sucked the moisture right out of 
the ground dramatically affecting the soil composition and thus effecting the 
health of the forest and consequently it’s bird life?  Any other thoughts? 

Bob Righter
Denver CO

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