Now that I am recovering from the surgical procedure 3 days ago, I have
edited 2 photos that I took on Monday of the Least Bittern at Holcim
Wetlands as I watched it patiently stalk it's prey. I was happy to have
better light just before 7am to get these pics compared to the fading light
at
Not being able to go birding for 3 days had resulted in withdrawal symptoms
that I just couldn't take so this evening I drove out to a few place near
Canon City just to see if anything was around. As I restricted from putting
by eyes directly into binoculars and spotting scope, I found that one
compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: August 20, 2011
e-mail: rba@cfo-link.
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, August 20, 2011
updated at 5:00 am, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message,
Birders,
The sub adult dark-morph Reddish Egret I first reported at Adobe Creek
Reservoir (Bent and Kiowa Counties) on August 2nd was still present on
August 20th. How a showy bird that is partial to open sand bars
(especially unvegetated points) can be hard to find at times is a
mystery to
Nice morning of banding today at Clear Springs Ranch (CSR)*.
More migrants appearing than on Wed.
American Robin 3
Brown Thrasher 1
Calliope Hummingbird 1 (not banded)
Eastern Kingbird 1
House Wren 3
Lazuli Bunting 3
Prairie Warbler 1
Western Tanager 1
Western Wood Pewee 3
Willow Flycatcher
I led a very enjoyable field trip for the Boulder Bird Club this morning. No
stop-the-presses birds, but a beautiful, cool, sunny morning with good company.
Six of us started out at 7:00 a.m. at the CO93XCO128 trail head. We walked the
trail down to Coal Creek mainly looking at Vesper
Services for Larry will be held Thursday, August 25th, at St. Mary's Catholic
Church in Minong, WI.
There will be a friends and family gathering at 10:00am at the church prior to
mass at 11:00am. Interment will follow at the Wascott Cemetery in Wascott, WI.
Everyone is invited to lunch at the
Today's (August 20th), Arkansas Valley Audubon Field trip to the Wet Mountain
Valley, Custer County found just over 100 species of birds. The highlights
were two Northern Waterthrush below Lake DeWeese dam, and a flyby Peregrine
Falcon along the Brush Creek Road Loop in the afternoon. There
Greetings All,
Questions re: migration and biogeography are near and dear to my heart.
The term dispersal, as we use it, is not the same as is used in (at least
some) of the ornithological literature. For those interested in migration, I
think that Berthold's Bird Migration: A general
