compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: August 10, 2011
e-mail: rba@cfo-link.
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, August 10, 2011
updated at 5:00 am, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message,
On my bike ride around the lake this morning I saw an immature Yellow-crowned
Night Heron on the east side of the lake in the reeds on the north side. I did
not have my bins, but it was close enough to see its dark bill and long legs. I
watched it for a few minutes before it disappeared into
Hi All, In response to inquiries re the Summer Tanager. I went back today and spent quite a bit of time looking in that general area again, but no luck refinding it.
Elaine Coley, Loveland
Send your photos by email in seconds...
Try FREE IM ToolPack at www.imtoolpack.com
Works in all emails,
Heading back to CO yesterday I stopped by Bonny Reservoir and 'Lake Linfield'
in Phillip/Yuma. Bonny in Yuma County was very active with 100 Black Terns, 10
Forster's terns, 66 American Avocets with 1 Willet mixed in, 12 Marbled
Godwits, 6 Pectoral Sandpipers, 3 Long-billed Dowitchers, a dozen
I hiked the Mt.Thomas trail south of Eagle off Crooked Creek pass
today.After enjoying some of the most spectacular views in Eagle
County I began my descent.I was rewarded with a very cooperative
Three-Toed Woodpecker,then I flushed a Goshawk out of a spruce
that soared right over me.Overall,a
Hello folks--
If anyone would like to spend time with a nice gentleman from Georgia
(Sandy, here to do the Longmont Tour de Cure for the American Diabetes
Assn), this Birdingpal needs a local guide on Friday afternoon 8/19 and
Sunday morning 8/21. He is looking for the western birds, especially
We saw the orange variant Scarlet Tanager in Cheyenne Canyon this afternoon; it
was across the river from the paved parking lot (maybe 0.20 to 0.25 mile
upstream) the first time we saw it.
We saw it for some time, answering hikers who were asking us what we were
looking at, and showing it to
Two burrowing owls seen on Monday morning at about 8:00am, 3.1 to 3.3
miles east of 96th and Tower Rd near Denver International Airport. The
road goes east, then north, so it's on the north stretch. The owls
were on the west side of the road. They hopped into their burrows
before I could get a
Correction: I saw the owls on Tuesday morning, Aug 9, 2011. It just
felt like a Monday.
--
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.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
