Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date:May 23, 2009
e-mail: r...@cfo-link.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, May 23, 2009 at
5 am sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory.
Highlight species include (*Denotes that
COBirders,
With an overnight shift in the wind direction, a new batch of migrants
finally arrived at Chico Basin Ranch this morning (fee area). At the
Rose Pond in Pueblo County, I heard a high-pitched song I thought was
either Cape May or Bay-breasted Warbler, I wasn't disappointed to find
We're visiting from Maryland. We had a nice walk this morning along the Highline Canal in Douglas County starting at County Line Road just west of McClellan Reservoir and walking south and west. Highlights were a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak singing and consuming lots of insects in a cottonwood
Hello, Birders.
Just a quick update from Day 1 in the San Luis Valley.
Write-in birds reported thus far today (Saturday, May 23rd) include Glossy
Ibis, Marbled Godwit, White-rumped Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper, Lewis's
Woodpecker, Least Flycatcher, Cassin's Kingbird, Yellow-throated Vireo,
Hi COBirders,
Brian Gibbons opened nets this morning for a while before we
dismantled the station for the season. Between 6:30 and noon we banded
52 new birds, so, as Bill M stated, a shift in the winds brought in a
lot of new birds. Surprisingly we had several FOS's. More waves of
