Compiler: Allison Hilf
Date:October 15, 2009
e-mail: r...@cfo-link.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, October 15, 2009 at
7am sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain
Bird Observatory.
Highlight species include (*Denotes
Hello, Birders.
Just a reminder: The ongoing Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas project features a
quarterly newsletter, available for free from the project website.
Here's the current newsletter (Fall 2009): http://tiny.cc/1g561
Lots of cool stuff in there. I was especially interested in the
My dad has found a large raptor in his chicken pen. The bird seems
unhurt but it is banded. He has called DOW, local sheriff, and Fish
and Game but nobody is interested in retrieving the bird. He is at
his whits rnd and now figures he'll just try and catch it and let it go.
Anyone out
Cobirders,
The Sabine's Gull continues at the west boat pier at Cherry Ck SP. We
last observed it flying low over the water and heading south.
Other birds include:
Eared, Horned, and Western Grebes
Many ducks--Shovelers, Ruddy, Mallards, Wigeon,Gadwall...
Snipe
Coots
Black-crowned
Join us for our monthly bird walk at Garden of the Gods this Saturday
10/17 at 8 AM in the Visitor Center parking lot on N 30th Street in
Colorado Springs. All ability levels are welcome with beginners
especially encouraged. I will (hopefully) answer all your bird questions
on identification,
Photos of the bird can be seen at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandonsbirdphotos/
While driving north from the Headquarters in Pueblo County at Chico, there was
a Merlin on the fence eating a small bird.
Good birding,
Brandon Percival
Pueblo West, CO
Since I am out of state I couldn't do much, but thank you to all those
who offered help/advice. My mother tells me that someone came and got
the bird, I suspect DOW. Hopefully we will hear about the band it
carried. I am advising my parents on better ways to protect their
chickens.
After being closed of 4 days because of drizzly, cold weather, we've had 2
really good fall days. We banded 40 birds (31 of which were Yellow-rumped
Warblers) on Wednesday, making it one of the best days of a very slow
season. Total captured including recaps was 54. Today was slower but still
Leaving Boulder Res. yesterday I stopped by Lagerman Res. and ran into Mike
Blatchley. Mike turned me on to a gull slightly larger than Ring-billed Gulls
around it. It had dark streaking around the head, neck and breast. The light
was getting bad, but I think it might have been a Thayer's Gull.
A stop on the south shore of Union Res after work today I saw a Common Loon try
to take flight with no success. Very windy. Noticing a different gull flying by
I found a Thayer's Gull flying in the strong wind.
Todd Deininger
Longmont, CO
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