[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, February 21, 2011

Date: February 21, 2011 e-mail: r...@cfo-link.org phone: 303-659-8759 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Monday, February 21, 2011 at 5 am, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message, you can skip the

[cobirds] Red Rocks Jackpot - Jefferson County

Hi All, Have made several stops at the Red Rocks feeders over the weekend (as part of the Backyard Bird Count) with sporadic results as far as seeing all the specialities and saw only one lonely Gray-crowned Rosy Finch. Knowing it was going to be cold last night and possibly cloudy this

[cobirds] Summit County Rosy-Finches, etc.; Red Rocks

Yesterday while skiing at Keystone, I had a flock of ~150 Rosy-Finches at North Peak. While I normally see Brown-capped Rosy-Finches with a few Gray-crowned, today roughly a third of the R-F's were Gray-crowned of which several were the Hepburn's subspecies. There was at least one Black R-F,

[cobirds] Probable American/Eurasian Widgeon Hybrid Boulder Co

My birding site was rather odd this morning, the Boulder County Wastewater Treatment Plant. I was surveying waterfowl that were using the different tanks at the facility. In a tank that had only Mallards and American Widgeon, I had a long look at a bird with a rusty head and a wide green

[cobirds] Rosy-Finches mid-April for out-of-country birder?

Birders, A very good birder from out of the country is arriving in Denver ~Apr 11 for 8 days and wonders if there will be any places in CO where he could still see all of the rosy-finches before they disperse for breeding. Does anyone have info from previous years or would hazard a guess for

[cobirds] Mr. Bill

Hi all: I have posted the solution to last week's Mr. Bill Mystery Quiz (www.cfo-link.org). Enjoy, Tony Leukering Villas, NJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com.

[cobirds] Re: South Platte -- Denver -- February 19 and 20

The Long-tailed Duck was at S. Platte and Florida as of Tuesday (Feb 15). She is shy and likes to hang under the east bank, keeping vegetation between her and you. I suspect she has a hiding place as I only see her half the times I stop to look. Jerry Cech Denver On Feb 20, 6:13 pm, B K

[cobirds] Snow bunting in Routt Co.

A lone snow bunting is enjoying the company of horned larks and grey-crowned rosy finches just north of Toponas (CO 131/ Routt Co Rd. 6) in southern Routt County. Look for a feeding zone of an open ground area at the north end of stacks of hay about one mile north of Toponas next to the

[cobirds] Call for Papers: CFO Convention, Grand Junction

Hello all, We are soliciting proposals for the scientific paper session at the Colorado Field Ornithologists annual convention, at the Doubletree Hotel in Grand Junction, Colorado. The paper session will be held on the afternoon of Saturday, May 21. Speakers are expected to have between 30 and

[cobirds] GBBC data acceptance question

I entered two checklists tonight that kicked back with an are you sure? verification step due to the unusual species reported. Both of those checklists are now in the system, and the numbers come back for those areas...minus those species. I sent Audubon an email asking about it, will see