Re: [cobirds] Interesting Duck from the South Platte, Denver

2011-01-31 Thread markchavez
I have a photo of the same bird from the 19th (Recent Additions) in the gallery below . I was thinking Northern Pintail X American Wigeon. Mark Chavez Lakewood-Green Mtn http://jaeger29.smugmug.com/ - Original Message - From: Todd Deininger To: cobirds Sent: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:58:3

[cobirds] Interesting Duck from the South Platte, Denver

2011-01-31 Thread Todd Deininger
William Bond took this photo and placed it on his blog. I can see the Northern Pintail, but what else? http://birdsbybill.blogspot.com/ Todd Deininger Longmont, CO "Only the muddy fox lives" -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds"

[cobirds] Ducks on the Platte

2011-01-31 Thread williebondo
Went down to the Platte at Florida St. Friday, looking for the reported Long-tailed Duck. Thought I'd found it, but now that I look at the photos, I think it's a molting or juvi Pintail. See what you think. There was a beautiful male Common Mergansers, Hooded Mergansers, Green-winged Teals, Buff

[cobirds] "Arctic Blast" implications

2011-01-31 Thread Christian Nunes
Cobirders, I was just on Jack Siler's eBird rarity map (http://birdingonthe.net/gmaps/eBirdMap.html) and noticed a report of 2 Great Gray Owls just north of the border near Cheyenne, WY. Of course, who knows how reliable that report is. Not exactly where I'd expect one to show up. But it r

[cobirds] El Paso county --- Northern Goshawk

2011-01-31 Thread Mark Peterson
COBirders, While sitting here working I noticed a raptor working the hillside. I grabbed the bins and sure enough, it was an adult NORTHERN GOSHAWK. It has now been actively hunting the hillside for ~25 minutes. There is also a RED-TAILED HAWK that has noticed the activity and come down to c

[cobirds] IA Black-tailed Gull journal article on IOU website

2011-01-31 Thread Kayleen A Niyo
Ann Johnson now has all the 2008 issues of Iowa Bird Life on the IOU Ann Barker Memorial Library public website. This is the issue with the Black-tailed Gull sighting at Saylorville Res from 17 Nov to 6 Dec 2007, cover photo and article pp 40-41. I know some CO birders went over to get the gull a

[cobirds] Red Rocks Report - Jeffco

2011-01-31 Thread mike
All, Arrived early before the snow started and put out some seed. Lots of birds on the ground on the west side. As far as I could tell, everyone present and accounted for: Rosy-Finches 40 -50 birds with mostly Gray-crowned & Gray- cheeked(Hepburns), with some Brown-capped and a few Blac

[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert - January 31, 2011

2011-01-31 Thread Allison Hilf
Date: 31 January 2011 e-mail: r...@cfo-link.org phone: 303-659-8750 compiler: Allison Hilf This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Monday, January 31, 2011 at 9am sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message, you can