Date: July 5, 2011
e-mail: rba@cfo-link.
phone: 303-659-8750
compiler: Joyce Takamine
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, July 5, 2011
updated at 5 AM, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message, you
can skip
Walking the new concrete bike path from Clear Creek up the hill
(parallels 6th Ave somewhat) Sunday morning (7/3), I was delighted to
see a Red-Eyed Vireo right where the path turns 90 degrees to the
west, near the School of Mines athletic fields. I walk this path
often; this is the first time
Earlier today, while working on my La Veta Atlas block, I spotted a male
Bobolink in an irrigated hayfield south of the La Veta Cemetery, on the
southeast corner of the town. It was perched at the top of a small patch of
oaks growing in the hayfield. I don't know for sure if it was singing as
Some nice surprises showing up in the Valley this year. Lynn Wickersham found a
Black-and-white Warbler in Tracy Canyon south of Saguache over the weekend.
That is a first summer record for our area.
Lisa Rawinski reports Sage and Cassins Sparrows near Pikes Stockade today (in
addition to a
