[cobirds] Canon City area sapsuckers

I was able to get some good video of the male as well as the female Williamson's Sapsucker and I have uploaded the first few clips onto my BirdsAndNature http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com . It is less intrusive to use my camcorder as it makes less noise than my dslr and this very shy guy

[cobirds] Thursday, October 28, Colorado Rare Bird Alert

Date: October 28, 2010 email: per...@aol.com phone reports: 303 659-8750. If you phone in a message, you can skip through the recording by pressing the star key (*) on your telephone at any time. This does not work on rotary phones. Please leave your name, phone number, detailed

[cobirds] Red Rocks, Curve-billed Thrasher 10/28

I am currently looking at the Curve-billed Thrasher at Red Rocks (Jefferson County) first reported yesterday. Cole Wild Loveland Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to

[cobirds] Curve-billed Thrasher at Red Rocks off and on

The Curve-billed Thrasher has made brief appearances at the Red Rocks Trading Post thrice today. In addition to the 0730 sighting posted early by Cole Wild, Dick Schottler was among a group that saw it for about a minute at 9:40 AM, but it was not seen again until Bob Brown spotted it at

[cobirds] Red Rocks current sightings

The White-throated Sparrow and Curve-billed Thrasher have each made a brief appearance since 2pm. Todd Deininger Longmont -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@googlegroups.com. To

[cobirds] Golden-crowned, Red Rocks

Just has the Golden-crowned walking down the sidewalk at the west feeders. Todd Deininger -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email

[cobirds] Scoters and Loons at Pueblo Reservoir (Pueblo County) 10/28

Late this afternoon, Margie Joy and I were able to see two female plumage SURF SCOTERS and one female plumage BLACK SCOTER at Pueblo Reservoir off Sailboard launching area.  I also counted 8 Common Loons from the middle part of the reservoir east to the dam, this afternoon as well. Brandon

[cobirds] Park County Reservoirs . 10/28

Co birders : Seems we should have gone to Pueblo reservoir today . No scoters , no murrelets at the three locations . Lapland Longspur and 6 Common Loons at Elevenmile Res , 1 Common Loon at Spinney Mtn Res and 2 adult white swans ( probably ) Tundra at Antero . Swans refused to wake up and

[cobirds] Sandhill Crane/Eagle behaviors

Several years ago I saw a Golden Eagle stoop on a feeding flock of Greater Sandhills at the Monte Vista NWR, during the Crane Festival in March. It came in like a rocket, struck a crane in the standing flock, landed about 20 feet away, then hopped/flew back to dispatch and consume its prey.