Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date:May 28, 2009
e-mail: r...@cfo-link.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, May 28, 2009 at
5 am sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory.
Highlight species include (*Denotes that
I have uploaded new images from my Rocky Mountain National Park trip. I saw
quite a variety of waterfowl and hawks in the Arapaho National Wildlife
Refuge (North Park). Because of the time of day and lighting, there were a
number of birds I did not try and photograph. However, even though the
This post is late because of internet connection problems...nasty dial-up!
An Ovenbird serenaded me while I was gardening yesterday. He sang for most of
the morning and I followed him into the aspens where I had glimpses of him
flying about. I will be listening for him today. Last year in
Hi Folks,
Over the long weekend I was down at Lake George Colorado (on 24 behind
Colorado Springs) and there was a spectacular mayfly hatch. Swallows
of different shapes and sizes were loving it, and hundreds if not
thousands fed over the lake. One bird stood out from the swallows.
It's
Thanks for all the pointers.
It does seem like a black tern (I'd guessed that from the book but
didn't know if any terns fed like this.) Sadly it wasn't seen the next
day or two (once the may fly hatch thinned out) so I doubt it is there
now.
Also, I failed to remember (until I just
At Welchester Tree Park in Lakewood (8th w. of Simms) things were quiet at
lunch time with exception of a male red-breasted grosbeak. It was singing
softly and foraging low along the wooded path north and west of the bridge
over the creek. Also lesser goldfinch but no western tanagers in the
He's Back!
The Gregory Canyon Scarlet Tanager has returned and was busy chasing
the Western Tanagers in the area where he was most commonly found last
year (about 100 steep yards further uphill from telephone pole 50).
He was extremely active and vocal between 9:00 and 9:30 this morning
(hard to
On Tuesday morning and again today, we observed a pair of
Ash-throated Flycatchers in the ponderosa pines surrounding our
house, just west of the South Bay area of Horsetooth Reservoir. One
bird was very vocal ('kabrick) and the other was silent. (Last July,
we had a similarly-behaving
As mentioned in Steve Bouricius's recent post, Bailey and Niedrach's Birds
of Colorado, 1965, pp 485-486 does describe some single observer
sightings for Pileated Woodpecker in Colorado from as far back as 1897 to
1962.
One of these reports was from Supreme Court Justice, William O.
I recently had a former principal from a school in Florissant tell me he
had Pileated Woodpeckers at his house near Lake George in years past. He
wasn't a birder but described the size and other features flawlessly
before I showed him field guides and Thayer's software. Stranger things
have
Loch Kilpatrick, Joe Roller and I observed a singing White-eyed Vireo in the
southwest corner of Crow Valley Campground. Other birds of note were...
American Redstart, Blackpoll Warbler, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Warbling Vireo
and tons of Swainson's Thrushes.
Glenn Walbek
Castle Rock, CO
Cobirders :
??? Migration seems to have ended at Chico . Like the past two days new
arrivals have been few and far between. A female Blackpoll at Rose (? first
seen by Scott Schaum ) , a female Hooded Warbler at HQ , and a Dusky and Willow
Flycatcher around Holmes was about it.
??? On my way
Greetings -
When I posted earlier today, I was borrowing my admin's computer as I
don't have internet access at work, so my post was perhaps too brief.
Gregory Canyon is described in the CFO County Birding Website (Boulder
County site #33):
This post and one other appeared on WSBN today. FYI. Joe Roller, Denver
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Savings.
I spoke with the fellow who saw this bird a couple of days ago. It was on
the river trail that goes thru the town of Telluride, CO. He described the
black body, black and white striped head and the red crest. The only
anomaly is that he thought it was about the size of a flicker. It was
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