RE: [cobirds] Ornithology series at CU-Boulder
Thank you, Bill and Alex. Dana's presentation at CU this afternoon was very interesting. I had nonnative House Finches infected with Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in IA prior to moving here in 2000. I then had the problem with native ones up in Evergreen, and I have it down here in Golden. I have another male now with ~grade 2 per my binoculars and Dana's rating system. So, the feeders came down again, got deconned, and I hope the bird goes somewhere else. I will keep them down for a while. It was encouraging that the bacterium is only transmissible on feeders, etc. from eye-rubbing by the infected bird for 6h and 12h, but not 24 hr. Dana mentioned that it apparently is found in CO now that it has moved west since 2002 or so. Do others commonly see it in House Finches at their feeders? Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 From: cobirds@googlegroups.com [mailto:cobi...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of William H Kaempfer Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 1:29 PM To: cobirds@googlegroups.com Subject: [cobirds] Ornithology series at CU-Boulder Alex Cruz asked if I would make the following knows to Cobirds recipients: The following presentations will be of interest. Talks are held in the Ramaley Biology Building, CU Boulder Campus. Oct 1 Fri EBIO Colloquium - Ramaley N1B23 3:30-4:30 Dana Hawley - Ecology and Evolution of an Emerging Disease in a Songbird Host: Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis in House Finches. Oct 8 Fri EBIO Colloquium - Ramaley N1B23 3:30-4:30 Clint Francis - The Causes and Consequences of Anthropogenic Noise on Avian Communities. Thanks, Alex -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@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] juv Sabine's Gull, Cherry Ck Res
Mary Cay Burger and I had great, close (~10') looks at a tame Sabine's Gull juv on the sand below the Cherry Ck Res dam face. There were two for sure and maybe three, but a ring-billed scared two away before we walked under the dam tower and along the water. Then one returned to feed along the sand edge near the fisher-people. That was a great place to scope the thousand (?) grebes, but we didn't find a Clark's or the red-throated. Photos at bottom of http://www.kayniyo.com/birds_seabird_gull.htm Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@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] Common Loon, Standley L, Jeffco, Oct 24
Sorry for the late post. With Brad Andres as leader, Evergreen Audubon birders observed the following highlights Sun, Oct 24 in Jeffco: NW corner of Standley L Common Loon close in Lots of W Grebes Horned and Eared Grebes One CA Gull amidst ring-billeds Two adult Bald Eagles in cottonwood nest tree, one of pair standing on nest edge Hyatt L in Arvada Redheads One Blue-winged Teal Coors Ponds 15 Wood Ducks Ring-necked Ducks Buffleheads Hooded Mergansers In the afternoon, I checked Arvada Res and found only 4 W Grebes and 4 Hooded Mergs. The current weather has probably jumbled all the birds. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@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] Northern Shrike in Evergreen, Jeffco
Just saw a Northern Shrike perched right next to a friend's driveway in W Evergreen, Jeffco. It is winter! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@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] city reservoir highlights
Checked a few city reservoirs and ponds today. Highlights include Centennial Park pond in Englewood 1 remaining Double-crested Cormorant 8 Hooded Mergs 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Bufflehead 2 Ruddy Ducks 1 Pied-billed Grebe Marston Res 26 Canvasbacks ~20 American Wigeon A few Redheads 1 Horned Grebe 1 Common Loon catching fish Quincy Ave ponds near prison ~30 Hooded Mergs 2 Eared Grebes Bowles Reservoir 1 Am White Pelican ~20 Common Mergs Hooded Mergs 1 Western Grebe 2 Belted Kingfishers Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@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.
RE: [cobirds] Probable Pacific Wren - Wheat Ridge Greenbelt - Jeffco
Mike and all, That is exactly where Mary Cay Burger and I saw our Pacific Wren on 10 Feb 2010 per my Avisys. I posted it at the time as probably pacificus. It was a dark rusty Winter Wren. We got many good, close binocular looks at him as he sang and flitted under the log and on top of it and 10 ft away. He wasn't shy, but he was very fast and liked to dip under the log, and I couldn't get a photo of him. We listened to the McCauley recordings of both Winter Wrens and it was unmistakably like pacificus. We asked Nathan if he would check it out if he had a chance. I don't think he was able to get down here. So, if it is the same bird, he might be around for a while. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography k...@kayniyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -Original Message- From: cobirds@googlegroups.com [mailto:cobi...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of mike Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 8:11 PM To: cobirds@googlegroups.com Subject: [cobirds] Probable Pacific Wren - Wheat Ridge Greenbelt - Jeffco At Joe Roller's urging, I am updating our post from earlier this afternoon. Bob Andrews, Michael Kiessig, and myself found what we believe to be a Pacific Wren in the same area as a Winter Wren was reported last winter. In fact, where we saw today's bird was on and under the same log where I observed last year's bird. We are calling it a Pacific Wren because of the dark color and rapid higher pitched call notes. All three of us agreed we had a Pacific Wren, but because we had only brief glimpses as the bird moved quickly in mouselike fashion from the shrub to the top of the log to underneath the log and then disappeared, we can't be 100% certain it was a Pacific Wren. I'll bet $10 it was a Pacific Wren, but not $100. Directions: Enter the Wheat Ridge Greenbelt at Prospect Lake off W. 44th Ave. From the parking lot south of Prospect Lake, cross to the south side of Clear Creek at the bridge directly to the east. After you have crossed the bridge, start west on the trail. After a short ways leave the main trail and follow the trail along the chain link fence. The trail heads west and then turns south. You will cross a small footbridge spanning a small stream. After crossing the footbridge, keep your eyes and ears alert as the probable Pacific Wren was seen in the downed logs at the edge of the stream a short distance ahead. The exact spot is where the trail forks and there is a sign on the west fork indicating the trail is closed. Mike Henwood Morrison Jefferson County -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@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] Thanks for a lifer!
Thank you Joe, Glenn, Cole, and all! That was a lovely lifer for me this morning, and undoubtedly for others! Great photos, Glenn! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@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] Ross's Gull records for IA and NE
Adding to the Midwest records! There are three Ross's Gull records for IA: 31 Oct 1993, Red Rock Res, Marion Co 13 Dec 1997, Red Rock Res, ditto 27 Dec 1997, Lake Manawa, Pottawattamie Co There is one Ross's Gull record for NE according to Ross Silcock, coauthor of Birds of Nebraska: 17-23 Dec 1992, Sutherland Res, Lincoln Co Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@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] pole raptors on I76
As always on my way to the L McConaughy CBC, I count pole raptors on that glorious stretch of NE CO I76! Sat., on the way up, I counted 42 red-taileds and 10 rough-leggeds, plus one Golden Eagle on a fence post. Mon, on the way back, there were only 33 red-taileds and 8 rough-leggeds. I figured, unscientifically, that they were more hungry on Sat right after the storm! We beat our L Mac CBC record of 108 with a new record of 109! See Steve Dinsmore's post on NEBirds. Both lakes are nearly full and totally open with the hydro running periodically to push more water downstream to make room for our CO and WY snow of this winter. Great CBC! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@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] I76 ferrug
Sorry, I forgot to add 1 ferrug on a pole on my Sat. list on I76. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@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] ponds - Jeffco, Boulder
Mary Burger, Sue Schulman, and I quickly checked some local ponds this morning to see if there was open water. Highlights include the following: Coors Pond, Jeffco - open around the edges near McIntyre Rd 26 American Wigeon 1 Pied-billed Grebe 15 Hooded Mergansers 20 Common Goldeneye, males dancing 20 Common Mergs 3 BB Magpie 1 Red-tailed Hawk Hyatt L, Jeffco - open around the edges 40 Ring-billed Gulls 10 Common Mergs 10 Ring-necked Ducks 8 Hooded Mergs 1 Red-tailed Hawk Standley L, Jeffco was frozen with a few, small open holes, but no waterfowl Red-tailed Hawk Am Kestrel Waneka L, Boulder Co. 25 Common Mergs 30+ Ring-billed Gulls sleeping or preening on ice edge Lots Canada and Cackling Geese 1 Red-tailed Hawk Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] gulls
Keep looking! I didn't get to see them in IA! IA had its first state record of a Black-tailed Gull at Saylorville Res on 17 Nov-6 Dec 2007. And its second state record of a Slaty-backed Gull (for 10 d) at L Manawa (Council Bluffs/Omaha) 25 Dec 2006 (see cover and article in IBL on http://library.iowabirds.org/). I put the Black-tailed Gull on the cover also, but it is not on the library website for nonmembers yet. So they were close to CO! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] IA Black-tailed Gull journal article on IOU website
Ann Johnson now has all the 2008 issues of Iowa Bird Life on the IOU Ann Barker Memorial Library public website. This is the issue with the Black-tailed Gull sighting at Saylorville Res from 17 Nov to 6 Dec 2007, cover photo and article pp 40-41. I know some CO birders went over to get the gull and the first IA record Fork-tailed Flycatcher (back cover photo) at the same time! http://library.iowabirds.org/issues/ibl-2008-1.pdf Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Silverthorne birds, Summit
Four of us traveled to Summit Co. this morning. Thanks to Joey Kellner's suggestion, we found great mt birds at feeders in Silverthorne. Highlights were ~50 of all 3 spp of rosy-finches and the subsp Hepburn's Pine Grosbeaks Evening Grosbeaks Gray and Steller's Jays Clark's Nutcracker Star of the show was a beautiful adult Goshawk sitting in a nearby tree protesting our ruining his/her lunch of a pine squirrel or jay! The Silverthorne sewage pond held ~15+ Barrow's Goldeneye 10 Ring-necked Ducks Few Green-winged Teal Red-winged Blackbirds and a new nesting pole with a new nest that I had not noticed before this year. The old nest pole with the huge nest is still closer to Silverthorne. Beautiful sunny day in the mts. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Rosy-Finches mid-April for out-of-country birder?
Birders, A very good birder from out of the country is arriving in Denver ~Apr 11 for 8 days and wonders if there will be any places in CO where he could still see all of the rosy-finches before they disperse for breeding. Does anyone have info from previous years or would hazard a guess for likely spots for him to try at that late date? Snowfall would help but that can't be predicted. I haven't seen many reports from Fawn Brook Inn this winter. He will be going for most of the chickens around the state so likely possible places anywhere in CO would be appreciated. Thank you for your help; I will forward all responses to him. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Prairie Falcon pr, Red Rocks, Jeffco
I found the pair of Prairie Falcons in Red Rocks Park zipping in and out of holes and perching on Park Cave Rock and calling. I wonder if they are beginning incubation. I photographed them but haven't had time to download photos yet. I did not see the Peregrines on Shiprock. I didn't have time to check for the rarities at the Trading Post. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Cherry Creek Res, Denver
Mary Burger and I birded Cherry Creek Res on this cloudy, dark day. Highlights included Neotropic Cormorant at the Marina alongside many Double-cresteds Franklin's Gulls on the sand spit near the marina Thousands of Western Grebes, but didn't search through them for Clark's Prairie Loop mudflats: American Avocet (2) Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs Long-billed Dowitcher Least Sandpiper (2) Cottonwood ponds at turnout: Cinnamon Teal (2 m, 1 f) White-faced Ibis Yellow-headed Blackbird Road to park office: Swainson's Hawk Parker Rookery contained 19 Great Blue Herons on nests. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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.
RE: [cobirds] finches
Scott and all, I already put up my HB feeders 4/12 (to be covered in 2 of snow this morning!), cuz in 2009, the FOY broad-tailed male arrived on 4/20. In 2010, he didn't arrive until 5/7. My Say's Phoebe pair were first seen in my yard this year looking at the nesting ledge on 4/7/11. That is early: 4/18/09 and 4/19/10! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 From: cobirds@googlegroups.com [mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of pygmyowl Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 11:26 AM To: cobirds Subject: [cobirds] finches Hi All, Due to the snow last evening and this morning, the Rosy Finches have arrived at our house. A moderate flock of Brown-capped Rosy finches have been at our house for most of the morning. In the past we have had them all winter. However, due to the Northern Shrike that had been in the neighborhood this past winter, the finches have been nonexistent. Now that the shrikes have moved north, the finches are back. FYI Broad-tailed Hummingbirds should be arriving here any day now. 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. -- 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] Prospect Park Evergreen, Jeffco FOY birds
I took a quick hike through Prospect Park this afternoon on my way to Evergreen for the Bear Creek Watershed BBA meeting. In the park, I had 1 FOY Chipping Sparrow, 2 FOY Audubon's Warblers, copulating red-shafted Northern Flickers, and 2 Cinnamon Teal males in Clear Creek. I did not see Hugh's Bushtit nest nor could I find the darn Mandarin Duck to photograph! Had a FOY Common Grackle at Evergreen Lake in Evergreen, as well as swallows flying in to roost under the overhang of the old icehouse (aka Evergreen Audubon Nature Center), but didn't get good ID looks as we were in the meeting. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Say's Phoebe building nest, BT Hummer, Jeffco
A busy day in my yard while I was in Boulder! My Say's Phoebe that has been checking 2 nesting ledges for nearly a month spent today building a nest in one of them! She is using grasses, angora and wool yarn that I never used for a project, and wool that I have provided for her, as well as other stuff she is bringing in! Also finally had my FOY Broad-tailed Hummingbird at the feeder. It was a female. Wonder if it is the same one that nested 3 houses from me last summer. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] late CFO and MI bird photos
Sorry to be so late with a few photos of another great CFO convention in Grand Junction. Thanks to all who made it possible, and even brought out the sun for the final days! I just returned from visiting family in MI where we birded Kensington Metropark near Ann Arbor, thanks to a tip from Tom and Barb Wilberding, Boulder birders, who told me the chickadees would eat out of our hands! ALL the birds wanted to eat out of our hands including a Greater Sandhill Crane family of two adults and two young colts! The adult male ate out of Tracy's hand! Amazing photos obtained! I read that they first nested there in 2002. So, if you are in that area of MI, stop there! http://www.kayniyo.com/trip_CFO_11.htm http://www.kayniyo.com/trip_MI_May_11.htm Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Broad-tailed HB and Say's Ph nests, Black-chinned HB at feeders, Jeffco
I am following a Say's Phoebe nesting on my front porch. The 4 chicks hatched 6/12. What fun to watch parents stuff big grasshoppers, crickets, etc. down their throats! Hope there is room for the 4 in the small box she chose for nesting. A nearby neighbor has a Broad-tailed HB nest in a 4' lilac bush! So, I am following her also, similar to the successful fledging of 2 chicks photographed in a nearby nest last year. I also have a male Black-chinned HB coming frequently each day to my feeders. I haven't positively IDed a female yet this year, but had a pair courting nearby on July 7, 2009. Of course I didn't have my camera with me to get photos of that beautiful violet gorget. No nests found so far. The Brewer's Blackbirds have a nest nearby for the second year that they are protecting. Scads of Lesser Goldfinches arguing over 2 thistle feeders! Fun late spring/early summer! Photos of the nests: http://www.kayniyo.com/birds_flycatcher.htm http://www.kayniyo.com/birds_hummingbird.htm Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] DFO Rigli Ranch trip, Morgan Co.
Several birders enjoyed a birding tour with Joe Rigli of their sand hills short-grass prairie ranch in Morgan Co., CO yesterday. Birds we don't often see nearer the foothills included 4 chicks in a Loggerhead Shrike nest: http://www.kayniyo.com/birds_shrike_vireo.htm Grasshopper Sparrows: http://www.kayniyo.com/birds_warbler_sparrow.htm Cassin's Sparrows (alas, no photos), a singing 1st year male Orchard Oriole (lousy silhouetted photo), Northern Mockingbirds, Burrowing Owls, and one lone American Pelican on a ranch pond that Joe says contains water all year. It was capable of flight as it flew when we got too close. Thanks, Joe, for an enjoyable tour! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] crazy Say's Phoebe parents!
Last night the phoebe parents came in and started beating up on the 4 chicks at 5 p.m. on Day 15 posthatch! Is that normal behavior for encouraging them to leave the nest?! I have only seen other parent spp entice chicks with food calling to them to come on out! This went on with both parents in attendance for about 20 min! Thought for sure they were killing them, jabbing down their throats (with no food), stabbing, pulling at their head feathers and literally in a couple moves it looked like they were trying to drag them out! This morning they all are out on the shelf outside of the nest, but still in the box. See photos. The parents aren't feeding them that I have seen, but are still hanging around on their usual perches. I saw and heard one parent calling softly this noon from behind my house when I was eating lunch on the patio! Books say fledge at 14-16 d. This is Day 16! http://www.kayniyo.com/birds_flycatcher.htm It is supposed to be 95 today and 99 tomorrow so hope to see them leave the darn box that gets warm by late afternoon. Has anyone seen or read about this kind of tough love??!! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Say's Phoebes fledged, Jeffco
Yea! All four phoebes fledged! One left yesterday and I saw him being fed by parents two houses away. The last three crawled back into their nest last night and then fledged this morning! I saw them being fed in various places in the yard by parents all day. That is nearly 3 months worth of yard birding from the time they started checking out my nest boxes in early April to fledging all four chicks! They are remarkable flyers compared to many newly fledged bird sp, and were easily able to fly from the ground straight up to their nest box, a distance of about 12 ft. Unfortunately, they might have a 0 to 50% survival rate out in the real world. I will hope for the best for them. http://www.kayniyo.com/birds_flycatcher.htm Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] question, egrets at Ferril L near DMNS
Birders, Last night before the DFO meeting at the DMNS, some friends and I were enjoying the rose garden and hundreds of Canada Geese on the west side of the museum when we began seeing small white egrets flying in to the far side of the distant Ferril Lake. We watched more than 30 fly in from the south and land on the far shoreline. We had no bins with us, but Larry Modesitt stopped to see what we were looking at and ran back to his car and got his. We figured they had to be either Snowy Egrets or Cattle Egrets, both of which are listed as nesting at Barr L in the BBA book. They had long thin stretched-out necks as they approached for landing, so we thought maybe they were Snowy Egrets. Does anyone know if they have nested in that area or nearby, or are they migrants? You can reply off line. Thanks. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Thanks for info on Snowy Egrets at Ferril L
Thanks to several people who responded that the egrets are indeed Snowy Egrets and each summer there is a large colony of snowys and Black-crowned Night-Herons that nest on an island in Ferril L on the west side of the DMNS. I hope someone is entering the data into the current BBA! Thanks to all who responded! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] late post, Sage Thrashers feed juv, White ROS, Jeffco
Sorry for the late post due to company, etc. We saw 3 Sage Thrashers in upper White Ranch Open Space on Mon, Sep 5. One of the three was a juv and one of the others was feeding it. I have seen and photographed them there on 18 Aug 2009. Few other spp of note in lower Wht Ranch OS or Golden Gate Canyon SP that day. Amazingly, we were the only visitors to Rocky Mt Arsenal NWR on Tues, the 6th, in cloudy weather. Lots of Swainson's Hawks including an adult and juv together on adjoining poles. Flocks of Lark Sparrows, Chipping Sparrows, W Kingbirds, Am Kestrel eating prey, and young Monarch caterpillars feeding on Asclepias (they better hurry!). The fall native grasses and forbs are gorgeous! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Chatfield Res today
Mary Burger and I were at Chatfield from 9 a-12:30 p today and, unfortunately, did not spot Glenn's juv Sabine's Gulls and Common Tern! Glenn is the gull/tern expert! It was not for lack of searching tho! We toured and walked the whole darn lake and searched all roosting and flying gulls and didn't even see a CA gull. Very few migrants as Glenn said, but did have 2 lovely Blue-gray Gnatcatchers. Also an Osprey in a snag on the east side north of the Plum Creek inlet, and 20 Common Mergs. Obviously we were too early for new migrants, which evidently Dave Leatherman was experiencing at Crow Valley. Try again after the front and heavy rains! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Thank you for info on stabilized binoculars
Thank you to all who responded with good suggestions for stabilized binoculars for my friend's brother. He now has lots of ideas for a solution to his problem! Your emails were much appreciated! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Sabine's juvs, Chatfield Res
Sue Schulman and I birded Chatfield this morning and found 3 juv Sabine's Gulls off the handicapped fishing pier toward the NE. They mostly stayed in the water. There were many boaters and several water skiers raising havoc with all the water birds. Also in the cottonwoods along the south edge of the swim beach: 15+ Yellow-rumped Warblers, all Audubon's except for 1 Myrtle 1 Wilson's Warbler Several Black-capped Chickadees An Osprey flying along the eastern shore Lots W Grebes 4 Horned or Eared Grebes - too far away in boat waves even with scopes 3 Pied-billed Grebes Lots Common Mergs Several Ruddy Ducks Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Sandhill Cranes, N Table Mt, Jeffco
I just now heard and then saw a flock of a couple dozen Sandhill Cranes winging south high over the north end of N Table Mt in Jeffco. Also Mountain Bluebirds gather daily along the fence lines of N Table Mt Park prairie dog colony to catch insects. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Snowy Owls in NE and IA, juncos in Jeffco, CO
Numerous starving Snowy Owls are being reported in NE by Joel Jorgensen and others and in IA by Steve Dinsmore and others. Some already dead or dying in hands of wildlife workers. Watch for them if you are out in E CO. Finally have Pink-sided and Slate-colored Juncos eating millet on my snowy patio N of Golden, Jeffco, CO. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Lesser Black-backed Gull, Pine Warbler, Arapahoe Co., Co
Yesterday Mary Cay Burger, Ira Sanders, and I scouted for our CBC and found a Lesser Black-backed Gull at Centennial Pond, Arapahoe Co. Also stopped at Becky Campbell's home in Arapahoe Co. and enjoyed her backyard wildlife including her visiting Pine Warbler. See photos below. Thank you, Becky! http://www.kayniyo.com/trip_Unusual_Birds.htm Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Lesser Black-backed Gull still at Centennial P, Arapahoe Sat
Sorry for the late post, but am working on CBC data. The Lesser Black-backed Gull seen at Centennial Pond, Arapahoe, on Dec 14 (count week) was refound across the street at the garbage processing facility on near Union Ave just west of Federal on the Dec 17. It was studied closely by several Marston CBCers with scopes and likely is the same bird seen on Dec 14. http://www.kayniyo.com/trip_Unusual_Birds.htm Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Snowy Owls in Adams Co. Sun, but not today, 2 Ferrugs seen - photos
Many people were looking for the Snowy Owls near 138th Ave and Harvest Rd today, but Mary Burger and I did not find them. I had seen them yesterday and got lousy, distant 400-mm photos of the snowy juv and the head of the adult snowy that had just flown to the south side of 138th Ave. I just learned from Steve Dinsmore that the Snowy Owls in IA are rapidly dying. So, perhaps these in CO finally did too. We did see 2 ferrugs today, one a tame one on a pole near the RMBO office at Barr L! I posted the photos on http://www.kayniyo.com/trip_Unusual_Birds.htm. Yesterday we saw several harriers and one ferrug also. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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.
RE: [cobirds] RE: Snowy Owl in Adams County near Barr Lake
Yea! Glad to know at least the adult is still alive! Thanks for posting! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 From: cobirds@googlegroups.com [mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of B K Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:14 PM To: cobirds@googlegroups.com Subject: [cobirds] RE: Snowy Owl in Adams County near Barr Lake The Snowy Owl was a bit shy today -- but was clearly seen west and north of the intersection of 138th and Harvest. The Snowy Owl was best visible about 0.25 miles west of Harvest on 138th (dirt roads) looking northward across a fallow field. Near the crest of the hill is a natural gas line -- marked by green and yellow posts -- and the owl spent most of the time in the brush -- with only the head visible. However, in the afternoon, the Snowy Owl thrilled all of us by catching prey and eating it -- blood on the bill clearly visible by scope. And -- after dining, the owl jumped on top of one of the natural gas posts -- giving all of us a great full view in the late afternoon. We only saw one owl all day -- no sign of any juveniles. From what I can tell, the owl was further away and not in the open field as previous. We were very fortunate to spot the owl in the brush. You'll need good binoculars or a scope. The area is about 2 miles due east of the entrance to Barr Lake State Park off of Picadilly -- but it's longer for lack of a direct route. Scores of Horned Lark too! Ben Kemena 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. -- 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] Prairie Falcons at Red Rocks P, Jeffco
Sorry for the late post. On Jan 20th, Mary, Sue, and I observed a Prairie Falcon fly past the trading post as we were watching all 5 subspecies of juncos, 8 scrub jays, 1 Song Sparrow, 1 Pine Siskin, and 1 Golden-crowned Sparrow - no rosy-finches. Leaving the park I photographed one of the Prairie Falcon pair on Park Cave rock near last year's nest site. http://www.kayniyo.com/trip_Unusual_Birds.htm We were poised to try for the roadrunner, but a squall line of wind-blown snow arrived and we figured the bird would take refuge also! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Red Rocks Jeffco, Snowy Owl, Adams Co.
Mary Cay Burger, her brother John who is visiting from Spokane, and I visited Red Rocks Park this morning about 9 a.m. I put out some seed and the flock of 40-50 rosy-finches that were hanging out in the crevices of the rock wall came in to feed, along with all 5 juncos, one Song Sparrow, one Am Tree Sparrow, scrub jays, many House Finches including one yellow male. I did not see the Golden-crowned Sparrow, but I was photographing the rosys. Found a Northern Shrike in the Shiprock Parking lot. Then we went up to 138th and Harvest Dr in Adams Co. about 1 p.m. and found, along with two other birders, the juv Snowy Owl along the same pipeline parallel to 138th and directly north of it, the same place that I saw it on 8 Jan. As Doug said yesterday, from the corner of Harvest Dr, turn west about ¼ mi and park along the edge of the road. Look north and the SNOW sits along that pipeline. It seems to have more white on the top and top back of the head than it did in Jan, IF it is the same bird. I photographed it and will see if they turned out. It was sitting in a clump of weeds. We stopped at Barr L. Flushed 26 robins out of a couple of shelterbelts, but nothing else. The lake is partially melted. I counted 22 Bald Eagles on the ice or in the cottonwoods. Of those, 9 were juvs. We also saw a Merlin hunting near Barr L. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Chatfield Res Bald Eagles
Mary Burger and I birded Chatfield this morning and, as others have, saw few species. The lake was still about 50-60% ice and is high and flooded at the south end. 4 Bald Eagles on the ice (1 juv) ~30 Ring-billed Gull and 1 Herring Gull In the long south pond (along the S Platte R), we had 12 Common Merganser 6 Common Goldeneye 1 male Hooded Merganser 9 American Coot The far south cottonwoods along the bend in the S Platte were birdless except for a pair of Mallards. Other usuals were 1 Red-tailed Hawk, 1 American Robin, 4 Red-winged Blackbird, 12 Black-billed Magpie, 6 Northern Flicker, ~60 Canada Geese (no small geese), and 60 E Starling (Ted said we have to report those too!). Nice day to be out tho! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] FOY Say's Phoebe Jeffco
FOY Say's Phoebe hawking insects from fence line of Jeffco N Table Mt OS prairie dog colony this morning! Previous earliest sighting there was 2 Apr 2011. Keeping fingers crossed that my pair returns to my nest box! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Cherry Ck Res, Arapahoe
Mary Cay Burger and I birding Cherry Ck Res for about 4 hrs mid-day hoping to find some new birds. Pretty slow, but highlights included 3 California Gulls 10 Herring Gulls Lots RB Gulls ~30 DC Cormorants ~20 Am White Pelicans 1 Eared Grebe ~10 Western Grebes ~ 6 BC Chickadees, a pair excavating a nest hole in a rotten tree stump 4 Ring-necked Ducks 2 Ring-necked Pheasant roosters 12 Green-winged Teal 1 Greater Yellowlegs, teal and GRYE in Cottonwood marsh east of road 1 Great Horned Owl on nest (will check photos for nestlings) 1 Cooper's Hawk (near Great Horned Owl nest) scolded me and landed right above me in a tree as I photographed it. We didn't see where it came from and didn't find a COHA nest. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] first broad-tailed hummer
Hi all, Last May I moved from Bear Mt in Evergreen down to north Golden near a pdog town to get rid of 4-7-ft snowfalls and having to shovel it off two big decks! It has worked so far. Miss my mt birds tho. Like Tammy and Ira, I had my first Broad-tailed HB at the feeder yesterday. Say's Phoebes are on our roofs looking for places to nest, so I am going to put up a nesting ledge under the eaves as an experiment. Had two unusual spp on my feeder down here this winter. A Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch with a fractured left leg was on my sunflower feeder tray during snow-stormy days 27 and 28 February. And a healthy male kestrel sat on the same feeder tray watching the ground underneath for about 5 min on 28 Jan. Looking for mice and voles eating spilled seed? Or just basking in the sun? Gorgeous! Good birding, Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Editor, Iowa Bird Life mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php 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.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] Bustits Prospect Park
All, Thanks to Bob Spencer's perfect directions, I was able to find the Bushtits and their nest in Prospect Park and photograph them on 11 May! Thanks, Bob! That was my first Bushtit nest! Amazing and well-camouflaged nest!!! Photos on http://www.kayniyo.com/birds_corvid_to_kinglet.htm mid-way down the page. Good birding, Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Editor, Iowa Bird Life mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php 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.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] Black-throated HB pair Golden
About 8 p.m. on my walk in my neighborhood, I had a Black-throated Hummingbird pair about 15 feet from me. The male was strafing (harassing) the female. She dropped to some wood chips under a newly planted tree, and he kept dive-bombing her. She kept watching him and fending him off. This continued for 4 or 5 minutes. Of course, I did not have my camera with me! He perched on the tree stake with his beautiful purple band brilliantly lighted by the setting sun to the west. I have never seen one that well before. I backed off to run get my camera, and by the time I got back, of course I could not find them! But you can bet that I will be watching my feeders all day tomorrow! I have lots of broad-taileds, but no rufous yet. Location is just south of 58th St on Van Bibber (just east of Hwy 93 and right below N Table Mt). Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Editor, Iowa Bird Life mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] Sorry, Black-chinned HB
Sorry, I meant Black-chinned Hummingbird for my previous post! Should call him Purple-throated Hummingbird! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Editor, Iowa Bird Life mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] White Ranch Open Space and above
Mary Cay Burger showed me some new birding places right out my new front door on the north side of Golden this morning! Highlights: Lower White Ranch Open Space Belcher Hill Trail Lazuli Bunting male singing Blue Grosbeak male singing Lesser Goldfinches (at my feeders also) Spotted Towhee juv Lark Sparrow Broad-tailed Hummers W Wood-Pewee Indigo Bunting male singing W Kingbird 2 AMKEstrels Upper White Ranch Open Space Two female RECRossbills gobbling gravel at intersection (on way up to upper White Ranch OS) 20+ Tree Swallows cruising over these RECRossbills 20+ MOBLuebirds juv and ad Tame Loggerhead Shrike Tame Rock Wren singing White-breasted Nuthatch heard Flock of Chipping Sparrows juv and ad Lots VGSWallows Went on up to Golden Gate SP, but ran out of time to bird. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Editor, Iowa Bird Life mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] One more crane tidbit from Evergreen Oct 2005!
Thanks to Ted for encouraging this thread on CO-Birds! I am enjoying it! Here was an entry into my journal from 17 Oct 2005 when I lived on Bear Mt in Evergreen, CO at 8,200'. I was washing windows on the kitchen deck this afternoon and heard Sandhill Cranes going over! What a surprise! Headed to Monte Vista maybe! What fun to remember that wonderfully ancient call! Thanks, Ted, and everyone else! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Editor, Iowa Bird Life mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] Red Rocks and 88th at S Platte
Mary Cay Burger and I went on the DFO trip with Mike Henwood yesterday. We all saw the Golden-crowned Sparrow at Red Rocks. Mike had sprinkled some seed behind the trading post before the field trip and the bird came out for brief periods. Today, Mary and I checked some spots in Boulder and then went to the S. Platte at 88th Ave. There was one male Barrow's Goldeneye on the north-most West Gravel Lake and a pair of Barrow's on the river just north of the green water tower. Also a imm Bald Eagle feeding on a very large carcass on the ice of the pond on the south side of 88th Ave between the S Platte R and I76. Our surprise bird was a FOY Western (we presume, but no song) Meadowlark feeding in the grass on the west bank of the S. Platte R along the paved trail. Good birding, Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013
[cobirds] Short-eared Owls at Lower Latham Res
Mary Cay Burger and I drove the gravel roads from Banner L WMA up to Lower Latham Res this afternoon. We ended up on CR 48 on the south side of Lower Latham Res. At 5:15, two Short-eared Owls were hunting on the south side of CR 48 near the connection of the marsh on both sides of the road (near the oil tanks). They tangled briefly in air with a Northern Harrier and the harrier flew off to the east. We left at 5:30 and they were still hunting. Other highlights were American Kestrel - 5 Red-tailed Hawk - 7 Northern Harrier - 5 Great-horned Owl - 1, and 1 on nest American Tree Sparrow - 3 Red-winged Blackbird - thousand +! Signs of spring? Thanks to all who keep the Short-eared Owl info up to date! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds. 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?hl=en Visit the CFO Website at: www.cfo-link.org
[cobirds] Peregrine on pole Hwy 93 and 56th St, Jeffco
About an hour ago, I saw a beautiful adult Peregrine Falcon on a small power pole along the west side of Hwy 93 near W 56th St (across the highway from north end of N Table Mt.). As a birder reported a couple weeks ago on Hwy 93 and 128th, I also didn't have my camera with me. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds. 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?hl=en Visit the CFO Website at: www.cfo-link.org
[cobirds] Red-tailed Hawk display in Jeffco
I watched three beautiful adult Red-tailed Hawks sparring in flight over lower White Ranch OS in Jeffco late this morning. One was considerably smaller than the other two, so I assumed it was a male. The smaller one was locking talons with one of the females and freefalling before pulling up and separating. Then all three would fly at each other. Finally, the supposed male locked talons with one of the females and they fell out of sight below the crest of a hill in my line of vision. I watched the remaining RTHA circle and finally drift away. The other two never reappeared. I hope they managed to unlock those talons before hitting the ground. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
RE: [cobirds] Peregrines, REd Rocks, Jeffco
I agree. I do not believe in broadcasting sensitive species' nesting sites. The ABA Code of Ethics states in part: 1(c) Before advertising the presence of a rare bird, evaluate the potential for disturbance to the bird, its surroundings, and other people in the area, and proceed only if access can be controlled, disturbance minimized, and permission has been obtained from private land-owners. The sites of rare nesting birds should be divulged only to the proper conservation authorities. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 From: cobirds@googlegroups.com [mailto:cobi...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Hugh and Urling Kingery Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 9:54 AM To: Cobirds Cc: Santangelo, Bob; Sherman Wing Subject: [cobirds] Peregrines, REd Rocks, Jeffco Bob Santangelo posted this email about the now well-known Peregrines at Red Rocks Park. [Whether or not Cobirds should broadcast the location of species like this may merit a bit of Cobirds discussion: Red Rocks vs. a less well-known and less monitored location; sensitive species -- due to their proclivities or the likelihood of human interference; rare species, especially breeders -- the likelihood of disturbance due to lister-attention; ABA ethics code applicability; etc. And what does our moderator think about such a discussion?] Hugh Kingery 3/31/10 Sherman Wing contacted me about peregrines at the red rocks sight today. He reported seeing a pair copulate with one bird then going into the cleft of the rock near or at the same spot we had nesting last year. The other bird headed up to a high-point and engaged in an intense squealing routine (I'm no expert, but I'd say this is a male declaring territory). The birds stayed for a while - then flew off for about ten minutes is a southwesterly direction. They returned to the sight. I arrived at approx 530pm and observed one bird for over an hour, perched in the immediate vicinity of the nest-site. The bird leisurely preened for the entire period of my visit - except for one critical instance. A para-glider flew into the vicinity and took a tour of Red Rocks. He flew in above the Mt Morrison ridgeline and buzzed the Golden Eagles site, then flew in close to the west face of Ship Rock and disturbed the Peregrine. He was at such a low altitude he was at or near the height of the top of Ship Rock. This was very disheartening to watch. Are there any options available to get some protection for these birds from this kind of intrusion? USFWS, FAA, DOW? -- 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2781 - Release Date: 04/01/10 06:35:00 -- 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en
[cobirds] rufous morph Red-tailed Hawk eating snake, Evergreen L
I spent Easter afternoon at Evergreen Lake in Evergreen, CO, photographing a rufous morph Red-tailed Hawk eating a small snake on top of a snag right next to us on the trail! He had trouble getting the whole snake down! Pretty cool. Also had two pairs of Western Bluebirds up there at 7,000'. Photos on http://www.kayniyo.com/birds_raptor_vulture.htm and http://www.kayniyo.com/birds_thrush_to_finch.htm Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
[cobirds] Lesser Goldfinch - Jeffco
My green-backed Lesser Goldfinch male was at my thistle feeder this morning (in the 4 of snow, which is all melted) for the first time in a few months of winter. Now waiting to see if my black-backed comes back! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en To unsubscribe, reply using remove me as the subject.
[cobirds] Say's Phoebe, Golden, Jeffco
My Say's Phoebe just appeared in my yard north of N Table Mt, Golden! Last year, s/he was first seen 18 April! Western Meadowlarks have been singing in the adjoining prairie dog town for two weeks. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en
[cobirds] Bear Ck L P Sat, lower Wht Ranch OS Mon
Sorry for the belated post. Mike Foster and I led a Bear Creek Watershed BBA on Sat in E Bear Ck L P. We had 42 spp with quite a bit of breeding confirmation activity. Probable migrants included Dusky Flycatchers, Orange-crowned and Yellow Warblers, 1 Black and White Warbler, and 2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak males. Sun, Mike Wilson and I led the Evergreen Elk Meadow bluebird trail house check on 35 houses. Nest-building is slightly behind usual schedule this spring due to late snow up there a couple weeks ago, but is progressing. This morning Mary Cay Burger and I birded lower White Ranch Open Space trail until the wind picked up and ruined our birding. Highlights were FOY Lark Sparrow, W Tanager male, Bullock's Oriole male, Yellow Warbler males, and then several Lesser Goldfinches and plenty of yellow-rumps, Audubon's and 1 Myrtle. We tried various Eldorado Canyon hikes with nothing exciting. Will have to wait until the snow moves out, I guess! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en
[cobirds] White Ranch OS, Golden, Jeffco, Blue Grosbeaks, buntings, etc.
David Wald organized a small group from the CO School of Mines, and we birded Lower White Ranch OS this morning from 7:30-9:30.Great birdy morning! Highlights included Bullock's Oriole (lots) Western Wood Pewee Broad-tailed Hummingbirds Yellow Warbler (lots) Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat MacGillivray's Warbler (1) Grey Catbird Lazuli Bunting (several males and females) Indigo Buntings Blue Grosbeak (at least one tame pair) Black-headed Grosbeak (several males vying for several females' attention) Brown-headed Cowbird (at least 1 male) American Goldfinch (several) Spotted Towhee Lark Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Song Sparrows Photographed many of these and will try to get them on my website later. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@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] White Ranch OS photos
As promised, a few photos from the morning spent birding lower White Ranch OS with David Wald and the USGS scientists. Finally, some of the breeding spp have returned! Now to start sorting through 250 photos from the CFO! http://www.kayniyo.com/trip_WhtROS_May_10.htm Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@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] Night flight Golden
Thanks also! After that inspiring presentation at the DFO mtg last night, Ted, I took the bait and took my scope out on my patio and glued my eye to that gorgeous moon. I counted 10 in about 16 min, all going N to S, but another going W to E, and one coming at me to the N. Reminded me of much bigger birds, the 200+K Sandhill Cranes, which I watched for many years the 3rd weekend in March from the first bridge west of Grand Island, NE, crossing the often nearly full moon very low and close as they came in to roost at our feet in the Platte R. No sound more glorious than that. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@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] diary of Broad-tailed HB nest, Golden
I am sorry for this very late post. Due to a summer of visiting family and being out of town for half of August, I am only now getting photos placed on my website. I was alerted on 17 June to a Broad-tailed Hummingbird nest in a nearby neighbor's newly planted tree. I followed the nesting progress interspersed with my visitors and being out of town. The female broad-tailed successfully fledged two young, which I photographed a final time on the eve of 22 July. Now I presume they are some of the juvs visiting my feeders! http://www.kayniyo.com/birds_hummingbird.htm Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@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] Eurasian Collared-Doves, Say's Phoebes Jeffco
We have been invaded by Eurasian Collared-Doves! On Sat, I photographed an Eurasian Collared-Dove on a nest in a fake Ficus tree on the north facing porch of a neighbor. She is using an old robin nest from last year. Had seen a calling EUCD on roofs near there last week. Today 3 more were in a nearby neighborhood, one calling on a rooftop and 2 copulating two houses away. I haven't seen any Mourning Doves here for over a year. Also had a pair of Say's Phoebes looking at one of my nest boxes this morning and saw another a few blocks away hunting insects. Also have a House Finch with bad eye lesions so all feeders are down. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Turkey Vulture, Jeffco
1 FOS Turkey Vulture checking out pdog options over N Table Mt in Jeffco late this afternoon! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Snowy Egrets, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Denver
Sorry for the late post, but Bob just reminded me! Mary and I stopped at Duck and Ferni Lakes after the DFO board meeting at DMNS on Wed. Trees on the island in Duck L were full of nesting Double-crested Cormorants. Dozens of Snowy Egrets were on the little island in Ferni L and flying to feed along the SE shore of that lake. We saw one adult Black-crowned Night-Heron fly from Duck to Ferni L, so there are probably more. Mary is leading a DFO rookery trip to these lakes and Parker on Thurs so we will have more time to scope it. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] Say's Phoebes nested again in 2012, Jefferson
My Say's Phoebes nested again this spring! But unfortunately they chose the old nest box under the eaves over my patio that they have never used and is beyond the reach of my ladder! They had three nest box choices! So, I have to attempt to photograph from a ladder on the sidewalk 20 ft away. They only have two chicks this year; last year they raised four. I was out of town when nest building took place, but it appears that the process is about 3 wks ahead of last year. I will have to count backward when they actually fledge in the next few days to know about when the eggs hatched, but probably it was when I was at the CFO convention! Also, with only two nestlings to feed, the parents are far more relaxed this year. A running photographic diary is on my website at http://www.kayniyo.com/birds_flycatcher.htm. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] vireo nest Chatfield
Mary Burger and I met at Chatfield to look for the vireo nest. We spent a half hour with another birder who had seen it a few days ago, but was looking in the wrong tree. I walked on down a few yards farther and, just as Larry's wonderfully explicit June 1 posted directions state (copy in my pocket!), easily found the nest hanging high up on branches on the left of the cottonwood. We watched through scopes from 10:30-11:45. The Plumbeous Vireo was in the nest and would stick its whole head out once in a while and I could see the bill moving as it sang from the nest. We heard the Yellow-throated Vireo singing a few times from a tree to the left of the nest, but never saw that bird. The storm last night brought lots of leaves and small branches down, but the nest survived fine. We will keep checking. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] RMBO trip to N Park, Grand and Jackson Co.
A few of us went up to N Park Friday to help a bit with the RMBO ColonyWatch counting and enjoyed a visit with a group to a Legacy Land Trust ranch in Jackson Co. Then Mary Burger and I went into RMNP on the west side Sun and encountered 50 mph wind and 90s. So, we got in limited birding on Sun and Mon and headed home to 100 degree Denver! Enjoyed photographing a pair of Red-napped Sapsuckers taking food into a nest hole along Hwy 125 in Grand Co. and Mountain Chickadees doing the same in the aspen right next to the RNSA tree! A few photos at http://www.kayniyo.com/trip_NPark_June_12.htm Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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] reminder; don't use old rancid seed!
I solved the mystery of the radically decreased Lesser Goldfinch numbers at my thistle feeders this summer compared to previous years! It finally dawned on me after seeing a similar post on NEBirds that maybe the reason is cuz I have been finishing up the very OLD bag of thistle seed. That has happened to me several times over the many years of feeding it. And sure enough, after changing to all new seed in my feeders Tuesday, I now have a regular clientele of goldfinches! The seed was rancid. So, lesson learned for the ??th time! Same can be true of rancid suet; unhealthy for birds. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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.
RE: [cobirds] Buteo behavior during Last Chance fire
Joe, I know from all my years of IA and NE birding that there are such things as stock tank ladders so that not only waterlogged birds, but mammals can get themselves out if they have fallen in trying to get a drink. I googled it and got an RMBO article! Yea for RMBO! http://www.rmbo.org/dataentry/postingArticle/dataBox/WildlifeEscapeLadder[1] .pdf Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography k...@kayniyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -Original Message- From: cobirds@googlegroups.com [mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joe Roller Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 1:31 PM To: Colorado Birds Cc: Tony Leukering Subject: [cobirds] Buteo behavior during Last Chance fire I visited Last Chance again today and chatted with a nearbyrancher I got to know during my atlas work on his spread. He was one of the heroes of the Last Chance fire, having disc'd fire lines for hours. He saved his neighbors, then barely stopped the fire only a few yards from his own home. He told me that while inspecting the land right after the fire, he came upon a stock tank, full of water, some ashes, a few dead Starlings and the carcasses of two hawks. (Out there Swainson's Hawks predominate in the summer hawk department). I had not heard of this behavior before, but guessed that they had dived into the stock tank in desperation amid the flaming fields and the smoke. The thought that a stock tank ladder could have saved them crossed my mind, until I sadly realized that nothing would have helped. Oxygen was probably depleted from the air, among other hazards. Has anyone heard of this kind of avian response to a prairie fire? 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-US. -- 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-US.
[cobirds] Seven Say's Phoebes produced 2012, Jeffco!
Second brood of Say's Phoebes fledged! My pair produced two in the first brood and five in the second brood! Hope some of them survive! Fun, fun! http://www.kayniyo.com/birds_flycatcher.htm Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: [cobirds] RFI on Goldeneye family at Echo Lake
I think I recall Bill Schmoker and Ben Kemena posted photos to CO-Birds July 5 or so and maybe others did too. Friends also saw all 6 young and mom a couple weeks ago. Paul Baicich and Colin Harrison have a description of Barrow's and Common Goldeneye in their Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of NA Birds, 2nd ed. They say the Barrow's chick is similar to the Common, which is pictured in Plate 5. That is what the chicks looked like in the photos. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 From: cobirds@googlegroups.com [mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of W. Robert Shade III Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 10:04 AM To: CoBirds Rare Bird Alert Subject: [cobirds] RFI on Goldeneye family at Echo Lake On a DFO field trip to Mount Evans yesterday July 26, we observed a family (presumably mother and six half grown downy young) of Goldeneyes for some time. The adult seemed to be in eclipse plumage:all black bill, brown head, sooty black rest of body except for a small white wing patch. I conclude this must be a family of Barrow's Goldeneye for the following reasons: Common Goldeneye do not normally breed in Colorado the nearest site on my field guide range maps seems to the Yellowstone area of Wyoming (Is this correct?) 2. The bill had no yellow, but did seem to be small. 3. The forehead did seem to me to be more perpendicular than the COGO. None of my books show these species in eclipse plumage. Nor do they show the downy young though I assume they are indistinguishable from COGO young. Someone mentioned this family had already been reported (where?) Did I miss something? Any confirmations for ID? For example seeing this bird earlier in the year with normal plumage). Thank You, Bob Shade 303-975-2476 -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[cobirds] no tern at Barr L
Alas, Mary and Tom Burger and I did not find the Royal Tern this morning at Barr L. We started at the RMBO Stone House Hdqts and checked from the top of the dam. Had 16 Snowy Egrets on a sandbar along with 3 Franklin's Gulls and a few cormorants swimming. Then went around to the visitor center parking lot, walked across the bridge and to the break in the cottonwoods where we went down onto the lake bottom. We hiked all along the edges of all the small pool of remaining water and saw no terns other than several Forster's Terns plus a few more Franklin's Gulls, 1 California Gull, and many Ring-billed Gulls. Lots of peeps, mainly Baird's Sandpipers. Also saw a few pelicans and Eared Grebes and lots of Western Grebes. Nearly all were sleeping so we didn't search for Clark's. In the smartweed in the old lake bottom were 2 Eastern Kingbirds. No one else including Mike Freiberg who was out there looking saw the tern either. We finally gave up at 11:45 and went to Pepper Pod for lunch. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[cobirds] Solitary Sandpiper, Cherry Ck, 14th
Not unexpectedly yesterday, Mary Burger and I did not find Glenn's and Loch's cold front good birds at Chatfield and Cherry Creek. We were one day too late! But we did find a Solitary Sandpiper at the little wetland on the NE corner of Cherry Creek. Amazingly when I entered the list into Avisys, I noted that Mary and I found a Solitary Sandpiper on Sept 14, 2011 at Chatfield! http://www.kayniyo.com/trip_Unusual_Birds.htm Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
RE: [cobirds] Late Lesser Goldfinch Jefferson County
Bob and all, I still have several Lesser Goldfinches (LEGO) at my thistle feeders at the N base of N Table Mt. When I took to heart the post on NEBirds about rancid thistle seed and NO goldfinches and started using fresh seed on 6/26/12, I have had my usual dozen or two LEGO and a few AMGO at each of my two thistle feeders all summer. The past couple weeks when the cold fronts go through it ramps up to a couple dozen fighting over a place at the feeders. Now I have 6 or 8 LEGO on the feeders every day including at least 1 green-backed male. A week ago I still had fluttering-winged juvs begging at the feeders. All summer I had 2 black-backed males on the feeders at the same time. I have had a couple black-backed males every summer; see bottom of page at http://www.kayniyo.com/birds_finch.htm. Now the annual dilemma is how to feed safflower or black oil to other birds without getting the neighboring horse stable flocks of pigeons on the ground too! And my fem flicker was calling from my patio roof on the Wed saying where is my winter suet cake? Shades of Bob Spencer's recent posts! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 From: cobirds@googlegroups.com [mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of birderbob Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 10:05 PM To: cobirds@googlegroups.com Subject: [cobirds] Late Lesser Goldfinch Jefferson County 10/13/12 While birding with Urling's Beginning Birding Class at Wheat Ridge Greenbelt we encountered a mixed flock of goldfinches in the tall willow trees at the southeast corner of Bass Lake (Bass is the smaller lake east of the larger West Lake). I had set up my scope to allow the class members view the birds and I focused in on a male Lesser Goldfinch. Several of the class members took turns watching this particular bird through the scope for a couple of minutes - I also rechecked the position of the scope several times to make sure it was kept on the bird. I was careful to point out the distinguishing features emphasizing the black back and the yellow front of this species (as a rule we are not allowed to identify the bird for them, they must make the i.d.) After the flock moved out of sight (to the west) in review for the class, Urling talked about the American Goldfinches - and several of us revealed that we had been watching a male Lesser. She advised me to post this on COBirds saying that it was significant because it is so late in the season to see a Lesser Goldfinch. Bob Santangelo Wheat Ridge -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/cobirds/-/qjRjS724oZsJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[cobirds] Evergreen/ID Springs No. 1 for 2 CBC species
The 2011 Evergreen/ID Springs CBC was No. 1 in the U.S. for MOCH (587) and PYNU (723) again!! Congratulations! We usually get the highest counts for these two every CBC! Any other consistent CBC species highs in CO? Next year we can search the electronic copy to find out! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[cobirds] NRCS Ken Burn's documentary The Dust Bowl Nov 18-19
This should be of interest to all birders everywhere, especially in hard-hit CO (see map in URL below). Soil Conservation Service is featured in the new Ken Burns' documentary, The Dust Bowl from Nov. 18-19, 2012 on PBS. Learn more about the http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=clickenid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkP TIwMTIxMTE1LjEyMjA5MzkxJm1lc3NhZ2VpZD1NREItUFJELUJVTC0yMDEyMTExNS4xMjIwOTM5M SZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTEwMDEmc2VyaWFsPTE3MjY5OTc1JmVtYWlsaWQ9Z2FyeS5iYWhyQGFncmkua WRhaG8uZ292JnVzZXJpZD1nYXJ5LmJhaHJAYWdyaS5pZGFoby5nb3YmZmw9JmV4dHJhPU11bHRpd mFyaWF0ZUlkPSYmJg==102http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/ national/home/?cid=STELPRDB1049437 Dust Bowl and SCS, now called NRCS. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[cobirds] Brambling at Bear Creek Lake Park at 2:16-photos
http://www.kayniyo.com/trip_Unusual_Birds.htm The Brambling was in the same spot at 2:16 p.m. today. It comes to feed very quickly and not for long, and is a very nervous, hard to photograph bird! Six different views are on my website above. I agree that it appears to be a first year male. It only feeds for a minute or so. You don't get a very long look. I waited 40 min and it did not reappear and quite a few bikers were going over the bridge where the seed is, so I gave up! That was the 2nd lifer CO has produced for me: Ross's Gull and Brambling! Thanks Joe and Mike for finding them! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[cobirds] map for inside Bear Creek Lake Park
I found a good map for Bear Creek L P for out-of-towners on http://www.lakewood.org/bclp/. There is a park and trail map PDF on the quick links on the right side of this website. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[cobirds] correction
An email from Bill Kaempfer reminded me that I should have qualified my lifer statement with recent lifers in CO! It prompted me to print a report from my Avisys program, and I have gotten 47 NA first-time-seen lifers in CO!! From 1990 to date! Looking at that report brings back lots of fond memories! Thanks for the trip through birding memory lane in CO, Bill! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[cobirds] Tundra Swans, Snow Ross's geese, Lesser Black-backed Gull-Arapahoe Co
Mary Burger and I scouted a bit for the Bow Mar/Marston CBC today. I have posted 5 photos on my website at http://www.kayniyo.com/trip_Unusual_Birds.htm. Highlights were 7 way-out-in-the-middle, but probable Tundra Swans! Also, 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull (ad), 5 Greater White-fronted Geese, and 2 Snow Geese at Centennial Pond. Ross's Goose is still at Fort Logan Cemetery. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[cobirds] FW: [ia-bird] Satellite-tracked Snowy Owl in Iowa
CO Birders, Just received this fascinating post by Matt Wetrich, Carroll Co., IA biologist, about the release of a satellite-tracked Snowy Owl. The new facility and SOAR project is new since I left IA! Bob Anderson of Raptor Resource Project has helped along with many others. Should be fascinating to see where this rehabilitated Snowy Owl goes if she and her tracking device survive the winter. She was brought in for rehab in Jan 2012 and just released Nov 28. Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 From: bounce-ia-bird-7...@lists.iowabirds.org [mailto:bounce-ia-bird-7...@lists.iowabirds.org] On Behalf Of Matthew T. Wetrich Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 12:14 PM To: IA-BIRD Subject: [ia-bird] Satellite-tracked Snowy Owl in Iowa Birders, I wanted to inform you that the Snowy Owl that was reported Friday morning (12/14) near the Onawa Exit on I-29 is a bird that is a rehabilitated owl from last winter's irruption event. The reason I know this is because she is wearing a satellite tracking device that will help scientists learn more about Snowy Owl behavior. She was returned to the wild in late November at Owego Wetlands south of Sioux City. She seems to have found her way down to the Onawa area and has set up shop there for over a week now. This is a project partnered by Raptor Resource Project (of Decorah Eagle fame) and Saving Our Avian Resources (SOAR) with assistance from Carroll County Conservation. If you happen to see her, please report sightings to me so we can add the sightings to the data base. There is an antenna comimg off her backpack that will let you know it is her. As with all birds, please remember your birding ethics regarding distance of viewing, not approaching, etc. This is a very excitng project and when there is some additional information regarding her travels and about the project in general, I'll post links to the partnering webpages. A photo by IOU's head man and a quick synapsis can be seen at SOAR's webpage. www.soarraptors.org Here is a link to Raptor Resource Project's Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/mobileprotection#!/pages/Raptor-Resource-Project/103786266324668?fref=ts Bird On... matt -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
[cobirds] Prairie Falcon on DFO-BBC trip, Jan 6, Walden Ponds
http://www.kayniyo.com/trip_Unusual_Birds.htm As Richard said, we saw this Prairie Falcon perched for a long time on huge power pole #199 at Walden Ponds near Boulder Creek on Jan 6! Kay Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. Niyo Scientific Communications Kay Niyo Photography mailto:k...@kayniyo.com k...@kayniyo.com http://www.KayNiyo.com www.KayNiyo.com __ 5651 Garnet Street Golden, CO 80403 Phone: (303) 679-6646 Fax: (866) 849-8013 -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
