Date: February 13, 2011
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This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, February 13, 2011 at 5 am,
sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory.
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Always interested in promoting birding in SoCo, here is what I and a
couple groups who came to visit saw in this area:
My yard in La Veta: 100s of Rosy-Finches including Blacks and the
Hepburn's version of Gray-crowned. Other birds included my new Yard
Bird...a stunning male Spotted Towhee as
The report of the Harris's Hawk reportedly photographed at close range
yesterday at Red Rocks is interesting. I am trying to get more information.
In my limited experience, Colorado Harris's Hawks do not allow close
approach, so
I wonder if the bird could have escaped from a falconer? I understand
While looking at ravens on a recent southeastern Colorado CBC, a very
experienced birder commented to me that these were likely Chihuahuan as they
were in a flock (12-15 birds), and that Common Ravens were generally more
solitary in nature. Birds of North America Online touches on this briefly,
While it may be that common ravens are most often seen in small groups,
I've come across conventions of up to 40+ of them hanging out
carrying on together atop a knoll at around 11,400' on the south slope
of Pikes Peak (in late May)...
Marty Wolf
-Original Message-
From: mar1joy
Hi All,
In the past couple of years I have noticed on several occasions a
group(I believe a photography class) in Bear Creek Lake Park with a
number of captive raptors including a Harris's Hawk. I don't know for
sure, but presume the Harris's Hawk could have been photographed in a
I visited Chico Basin Ranch (fee area) for the first time in a month and found
a reclusive Brown Thrasher there in the banding station grove. FYI, the
majority of Russian olives have been hydroaxed in August and the only
significant riparian area in the El Paso portion of the Ranch is an
Hi All,
Just returned from out of town and went to Red Rocks early this
morning and threw out some seed. Between 8 and 8:30 A.M. the White-
throated Sparrow and Harris's Sparrow came in to feed. A flock of 25
-40 Rosy-Finches arrived around 8:30 A.M. Most of the Rosy's were
I saw both the juvenile and the adult male YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER today at
Grandview Cemetery, Fort Collins (Larimer). It is a rare day, indeed, when
multiple sapsuckers are seen at one site in northern Colorado in winter.
Although it is a very mild day today, this isn't Banana Belt,
