I saw 1, American Golden-Plover, 10/9, at Prewitt Reservoir, [Washington
County], on sunday. The bird was near,[ but not next to], Long-billed
Dowitchers, near mudflats in the first cove west of the inlet canal.
Tina Jones,
Littleton, Jefferson County, CO
Folks,
Several people birded the eastern plains this weekend on their way to and
returning from the Fox Ranch field trip offered by The Nature Conservancy,
Thank You! During this time Joey Kellner and I saw 4 Blue-headed Vireos! Two
other separate reports of this species makes 6 unprecedented
Not much going on in the bird department; I've been working on my
pond. Did get a salamander the first day I put water in it,
though! ...and big ol' dragonflies love it.
Today I was out soaking the small shrubs and plants I intend to put
around the hill where the waterfall starts...and turned to
Hi Birders,
Things continue to be slow at the Barr Banding Station. Banded 11 birds today.
We did catch a THIRD Winter Wren, which seems pretty amazing. This one was a
hatch year (as was the second one); all 3 likely Easterns. Here are the
numbers:
Downy Woodpecker 1
Winter Wren 1
Ruby-
COBirders,
The scheduled CFO field trip to the TNC's Fox Ranch property produced
lots of migrant sparrows in the tallgrass prairie, in brush piles, and in
the rolling hills with horseweed, cholla, and little bluestem grasses.
Highlights from 2 hours on Friday and from Saturday morning included:
I am currently at Last Chance were I had a brief look at a Buffy stuby tailed
Wren. I am having no luck coaxing it from cover.
Also at least four Hermit Thrush.
Todd Deininger
Longmont
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Basically every longspur seen or heard south of Lamar and west of US287 today
was Chestnut-collared. A few were McCown's. There is a wet spot on west side
of CR5 about a mile south of CRX that has lots of longspurs coming to it. The
wet spot is posted.
Lamar Community College Woods:
Blue-h
Mary Cay Burger and I had great, close (~10') looks at a tame Sabine's Gull
juv on the sand below the Cherry Ck Res dam face. There were two for sure
and maybe three, but a ring-billed scared two away before we walked under
the dam tower and along the water. Then one returned to feed along the sa
Nice day for banding sparrows at Clear Springs Ranch southeast of Colorado
Springs in El Paso County.
Report for Saturday, Oct 10, 2010.
Black-capped Chickadee 1;
Chipping Sparrow 2;
Clay-colored Sparrow 2;
Dark-eyed Junco 2;
Gambel's White-crowned Sparrow 35 plus 2 recaps;
Lesser Goldfinch 2;
This morning I found a Harris's Sparrow (Looks like '1st Winter' in
Sibleys). It was near the small pond and then flew toward the bridge.
Otherwise it was quiet. The two Chukars were there when I arrived but one
was dead when I left. It must have been hit by a car.
Robb Hinds
Colorado Springs
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Highlights from Temple Ranch yesterday include a female red-naped
sapsucker, at least two blue-headed vireos, an eastern phoebe found by
Joey Kellner, two white-throated sparrows, a nashville warbler found
by Mark Peterson, and a female black-throated blue warbler I located.
Norm Erthal
Arvada, C
Blustery day along Raptor Alley ... most birds were grounded.
Raptor Alley (wind and raptors not a good combo; only ONE sitting on
the three sets of power lines)
Red-tailed Hawk - 9
Ferruginous Hawk - 2
Merlin
Sharp-shinned Hawk (rare; eating prey alongside road)
American Kestrel - 2
Northern Harr
Date: October 9, 2010
e-Mail: r...@cfo-link.org
phone: 303-659-8750
compiler: Joyce Takamine
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, October 9, 2010 at 5 am
sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory.
Highlight species include (*Den
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