Compiler: Allison Hilf
Date: August 11, 2009
E-mail: r...@cfo-link.org
Phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, August 11, 2009 at
7am sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain
Bird Observatory.
Highlight species include (*denotes
Hello, Birders.
Andrew and I did a southeastern Colorado road trip the past 3 days,
Saturday-Monday, August 8-10, 2009. Our birding highlights included 50+ Snowy
Plovers and a Piping Plover at Cheraw Lake, multiple Upland Sandpipers, Least
Tern, a magnificent Greater Roadrunner, an
Yesterday, August 9th, while walking through the tundra in Rocky
Mountain National Park at 11,500 feet elevation, I came upon a pair of
Loggerhead Shrikes. This was in a little patch of Krummholz near the
end of the faint trail heading northeast from Medicine Bow Curve.
Presumably, they
I've got a generally red-shafted flicker (brown crown, grey face, red
malars, red underwings), but also sporting a red nape crescent, a la
yellow shafted, in the back yard these days.
Also thought I spotted a Northern Shrike in Englewood late this am,
but maps and time of year suggesting that as
HI:
It has always been curious why the Western Kingbirds leaves Colorado
so abruptly at the end of August, beginning of September, after which
they are quite scarce. One obvious reason is that Colorado’s insect
population rapidly diminishes. Recently its become known that the
Western
Hello all,
I just wanted to tell about a very very large Osprey nest I saw in
Silverthorne. The nest is along Highway 9 (AKA Blue River Pkwy) as
you drive North towards the golf course, near Golden Eagle Rd. It
sits on top of a power pole on the west side of the road, and is very
obvious as it
Hi Birders,
Early Monday, Frank and I checked out the north section of DIA. After a
spate of Rock Pigeons, there was a pair of McCowan's Longspurs. Both were
ducking in and out of the low vegetation and pecking on the gravel on the
north side of 114th, about 1 mile east of Tower Road.
Just to be clear, I am not proposing that finding 2 birds at a higher
elevation than previously recorded is 1)an indication of an elevational
change for that species or 2)any proof of the impacts of climate change on
birds. However, I think that this may be important data for tracking bird
All,
My wife and I are very interested in chasing the three-toed
woodpeckers posted in the Poudre Canyon. Does anyone know of places
to stay near Cameron Pass (but east of it)? We're not much in the way
of campers, but a simple cabin or something with indoor plumbing would
be great!
I'd
