[cobirds] Culture War: Bent vs. Boulder

Hello, Birders. Duane Nelson says: If you've made it this far in this posting, I invite you to help with the count. I'll leave with a note on Bent County culture. Today, I saw a sign on a fence in Ft. Lyon that said Be where of dog. Birding may be great here, but it ain't Boulder. A

[cobirds] Kittiwakes and the Colorado Bird Records Committee

Hello, Birders. Nick Komar says: Needless to say, the number of Black-legged Kittiwakes reported in Colorado this fall has been incredible. That's great. And I hope folks will be able to look back 5 years from now, or 50 years from now or even 500 years from now, and be able to appreciate

[cobirds] December 5, 2010, Rare Bird Alert for Colorado

Date:5 December 2010 e-mail: r...@cfo-link.org phone: 303-659-8750 compiler: Joyce Takamine This is Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, December 5, 2010, at 5 am sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a

[cobirds] Good news:

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Re: [cobirds] Culture War: Bent vs. Boulder

Ted; perhaps your faux, lacking our richer experience, incorrectly ID'd the towhee as a Junco (eg, hoon-ko) Dave David Elwonger who roosts at 8400' near Woodland Park, CO (where we have many Gray- (or is it Grey) headed Juncos -- From: Ted

[cobirds] Iceland Gull in Loveland 12/5

A 1st winter Iceland Gull just flew from a small pond on the east side of Namaqua Road in SouthEast Loveland (Larimer). It was photographed in poor lighting by Nick Komar and myself. Nick saw the bird while driving to my house to pick me up this morning. It looked very similar to the bird that

[cobirds] Help with bird ID, Larimer Co

Can anyone tell me what this bird is? My Wingscape bird cam captured it some time ago.. still working out the id.. http://twitpic.com/3d78bf Connie Kogler Loveland,CO Twitter @ConnieKogler Facebook.com/connie.kogler BirdsOTheMorning.com AslansOwn.com -- You received this message because

Re: [cobirds] Help with bird ID, Larimer Co

Gooney Bird for sure. Bill On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 08:35:16 -0700 Connie Kogler zbluehe...@gmail.com writes: Can anyone tell me what this bird is? My Wingscape bird cam captured it some time ago.. still working out the id.. http://twitpic.com/3d78bf Connie Kogler Loveland,CO Twitter

[cobirds] CBRC and ebird.org?

Great post Ted, I'm interested in how CBRC treats submissions to ebird.org which is generally my favored way of contributing to avifauna data. The ebird database is building an incredible depository of bird trends and general data across the US and now an ever growing number of world locations.

[cobirds] Value of birding

The comments by Ted Floyd andGary Lefko that advocate supporting our birding benefactors harks back to theMatt Fraker letter, “The Value of Birding,” that I posted in November with arequest for comments. All the comments came to me personally instead of gettingposted on Cobirds (I think)

[cobirds] Backyard Bushtits still around

Had our first-in-the-yard Bushtits just this past Oct 24th. Saw them again over Thanksgiving weekend, and again this morning, a small flock of about a half dozen. Caught one sampling suet, in a rare foray out of the spruce trees. Since those are almost the only three times I've been home in the

[cobirds] Re: Help with bird ID, Larimer Co

Obviously a wood pecker. Is her nose still OK? Karl Stecher Centennial Connie Kogler writes: Can anyone tell me what this bird is? My Wingscape bird cam captured it some time ago.. still working out the id.. http://twitpic.com/3d78bf Connie Kogler Loveland,CO Twitter @ConnieKogler

[cobirds] Red Rocks this Morning

I arrived early and scattered some seed on the west side of the Red Rocks Trading Post. After Bryan and Kristin Arnold arrived and between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m. we had great looks at the Curve-billed Thrasher, Golden-crowned Sparrow and first winter Harris's Sparrow. The Harris's was a life

[cobirds] Re: Kittiwakes and the Colorado Bird Records Committee

Hi, Ted - More comments later. What was the vote on that wild Baikal teal of Jan 1993? (not just yes vs no...I mean how many members of the committee voted for it, how many against it). I think one immediate problem of reporting is that many of us (speaking at least for myself, hopefully

[cobirds] Harris' Sparrow, Fountain Creek Pk, El Paso Co

Hi COBirders, I, too, searched for the warbler-bearing mixed flock this morning, at Fountain Creek Regional Park, and while I DID find a couple of large mixed flocks, none had any warblers included, that I could find. Others there put me on the Harris' Sparrow that has been seen near the

[cobirds] Evening Grosbeak, Colorado Springs

Hi, again, COBirders, While typing, I looked out at my safflower seed feeder, and the Evening Grosbeak male is back again. He's been here, individually, since Tuesday, several times per day. I had as many as four males and two females on Wednesday, but only the one has returned since then.

[cobirds] Re: CBRC and ebird.org?

Again, I'd like to emphasize that we are missing the point as to understanding why some people watch birds. There are various sets of values out there to assume every single birder has the same mindset of others is inaccurate and hamper any progress. If you seek to capture the attention of all

Re: [cobirds] Help with bird ID, Larimer Co

Nah- too big a gape. Has to be a Rufous-sided Rugrat. They don't come to my feeders, but I get them at my table every couple of weeks. If you're trying to attract them, they really like mac and cheese. Norm -Original Message- From: ante...@juno.com To: zbluehe...@gmail.com Cc:

[cobirds] Ross's Gull at Union

I just heard that a adult Ross's Gull is at Union Reservoir in Weld County. 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 cobi...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe

[cobirds] Northern Shrikes - Teller County, Manitou Lake area

Today, my wife and I had 2-3 northern shrikes at Hwy 67 and Red Rocks Rd. One was a very brown juv-plumaged individual. One adult was seen in the same area, while later, another adult was seen about .75 miles further west at CR 782 and Red Rocks rd. Probably a 3rd individual. This is the most

[cobirds] Boulder American bittern

The Boulber Bird Club first Sunday walk at Walden had an American bittern in the SW corner of Cottonwood Marsh this a.m. Also seen among 48 spp. was a swamp sparrow just west of the treatment plant. Pete Plage Broomfield Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are

[cobirds] Union Res., Weld County update

No Ross's Gull found, but the Black-legged Kittiwake is still being seen. There are still birders out there looking. Todd Deininger Longmont, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to

[cobirds] Black Scoter, Swans, Lake County

2 Black Scoters on Mt. Elbert Forebay (first county record), along with Com Barrow's Goldeneyes. 1 late Townsend's Solitaire near the Forebay. Both swan species continue at Twin Lakes; the warm temps this past week have kept all the lakes mostly ice-free. A first-year D.cr. Cormorant at

[cobirds] Re: CBRC and ebird.org?

More thoughts ... who is promoting and outreaching birders in Colorado? We see the occasional bird story in some of our newspapers but nothing on a consistent basis. I know other states have newspaper writers who write weekly articles about birding. I think we all know we have a fractured

[cobirds] Media outreach (was CBRC and ebird.org?)

I would like to heartily recommend to all Cobirds readers the regular nature columnists in the Boulder Camera. Joe Prentice writes a fascinating Words on Birds article monthly (often featuring photos by Bill Schmoker.) Stephen Jones's and Ruth Carol Cushman's monthly Nature Almanac report

[cobirds] Huerfano County: Black-legged Kittiwake

The BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKE first seen on 11/28/2010 is still at Martin Lake, Lathrop State Park. Actually we think there may be 2, as we saw one at Martin Lake. Then as we were driving around Horseshoe Reservoir we saw what we thought was the same bird...however we returned to Martin Lake less

[cobirds] Harris' Sparrow, Fountain Creek Pk, El Paso Co (pictures)

On Dec 5, 11:25 am, Steven Brown sbrow...@gmail.com wrote: Hi COBirders, I, too, searched for the warbler-bearing mixed flock this morning, at Fountain Creek Regional Park, and while I DID find a couple of large mixed flocks, none had any warblers included, that I could find. Others

[cobirds] Re: Media outreach (was CBRC and ebird.org?)

Thanks Peter for the tip on Words on Birds that's one feature I have yet to find in all of my search endeavors. I've also linked it at http://coloradobirder.ning.com/forum/categories/words-on-birds-1/listForCategory providing 750+ new sets of eyeballs on Joe Prentice's birding articles. One

[cobirds] Rusty Blackbirds, El Paso County

Hello birders, We saw two Rusty Blackbirds this afternoon at Clear Springs Park, El Paso County. I don't know if it was a pair or an adult and a juvenile. The park is south of Fountain, at I-25 exit 123; go to the east . The birds were feeding in the shallow water and mud at the river. From

[cobirds] Significant Boulder and Weld Co. sightings from 12/5/10

Hello birders, Here's a run down of some of the rarities that were seen today: Baseline Reservoir: 1 female Black Scoter1 interesting adult Harlan's x Western Red-tailed Hawk Valmont Reservoir from Legion Park: 1 adult Tundra Swan Prince Lake #2: 2 adult Greater White-fronted Geese1 Killdeer2

[cobirds] Barr Lake field Trip 12/5/10

Some of the highlight of the trip at Barr Lake Greater White-fronted Goose-5 Snow Goose-15 Ross's Goose- 6 Bald Eagle- 42 Glaucous Gull- imm.1 Barn Owl- 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

[cobirds] Proposal of paying user fee to where bird seen misses the mark

I looked up what Hugh Kingery originally put out for discussion in the pay per life bird proposal and this is the essence: Every time a birder adds abird to his or her lifelist, that birder makes a donation to the location where the lifer was found. That proposal would result in more money going

Re: [cobirds] Proposal of paying user fee to where bird seen misses the mark

This is with all due respect to my friends and all other members on this list. Please take it in the positive spirit in which it is intended, though I'm sure the words won't come across that way. I know this was just a thought tossed out on this forum; here are my two cents. I'm by no means

[cobirds] Put me down as a No...

For pay-per-bird, for media hype to get people to be more organized in their birding, and for encouraging more people to mob sites where some bird shows up, lost and alone. I do this for fun, and the more rules, standards, and so on their are, and the more I hear You should..., the less

[cobirds] 10 male Williamson's Sapsuckers today in Canon City

I haven't been able to do a count of sapsuckers in the Canon City for a few days as I had eye surgery for second week in a row. Today I did check all the sites where I male Williamson's Sapsuckers have been and found a total of 10 birds. I again found 5 male Williamson's at Lakeside Cemetery

[cobirds] Orange-crowned Warbler, Boulder 12/5

A Orange-crowned Warbler appeared outside my office today on Pearl East Circle just north of Boulder Creek. I wondered if it might of been the same bird that Alex and Gillian Brown had at their house recently, but alas it would not tell me. -- Scott Scott Severs Longmont, CO

Re: [cobirds] Iceland Gull in Loveland 12/5

For folks who want a mental image of this Iceland Gull, I have posted some digiscoped photos here: http://www.pbase.com/quetzal/icgularimer2010. A comment about status and identification of juvenal Iceland Gulls in Colorado - These birds overlap in plumage with juvenal Thayer's Gulls, i.e.

[cobirds] Sap well bird action

I spent some time yesterday and today watching, from my car, the bird activity at the fresh sap wells in siberian-type elm trees in the dry gulch near Canon City where I have been following a number of Williamson's Sapsuckers. Though I had seen up to 3 females and 1 male Williamson's feeding in

[cobirds] birder economics

I think the main premise of the article Hugh posted from Birding was to try to spark a new way to find birders to be more of an economic force. User fees, stamps and the like have generally lost traction. If birders were more of an economic force, agencies, parks, private landowners, etc. would