Date:January 27, 2010
e-Mail: r...@cfo-link.org
phone: 303-659-8750
compiler: Joyce Takamine
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 5 am
sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory.
Highlight species include
CoBirders,
Barb Hughes of Steamboat Springs has had Common Redpolls visiting
her thistle feeder since January 24. She had 2 females on 1/24,
a male and female on 1/26, and the same pair on 1/27. Tom
Litteral saw Redpolls at her feeder on 1/26.
She welcomes birders and has moved the
Today (1/27) at about 11:15 a.m., a Northern Pygmy-Owl was in crotch of a young
cottonwood, on north side of Colo. Hwy 112, a couple of miles east of County
Line Rd. (Alamosa/Rio Grande County). It was not there on my return trip at
about 1:30 p.m. Also along CO Hwy 112, I saw 3 Bald Eagles
Cobirders :
I would like to bring to birders attention a bird/wildlife photography
workshop at Zapata Ranch , San Luis Valley , to be held March 7-11 , just in
advance of the Monte Vista Crane Festival , March 12-14. Zapata Ranch is a
sister ranch to Chico Basin and featured at the 2009
Heh Co-birders:
Shawna Hodge for Lamar ask me to post this information. I did get permission
for this post.
Mark Your Calendar to Attend!
The 8th annual High Plains Snow Goose Festival will be held in Lamar, Colorado
on February 25-28, 2010. Pete Dunne will be the featured guest this
The Pine Warbler first found on 18 January was quite easy to see this morning
(27 January) in Pueblo City Park. I was there, along with Mymm Ackley for a
couple of hours from 10am to noon or so, and bird was there for most of that
time. It stayed in a non pine tree, across the road to the
Hopefully many read in early January about the landmark changes that the
Bureau of Land Management in Wyoming made to their energy leasing policies
that set the stage for providing much needed protections for Greater
Sage-Grouse. I am proud to note that the National Audubon Society and that
state
