compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: August 23, 2011
e-mail: rba@cfo-link.
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, August 23, 2011
updated at 5:00 am, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message, you
COBirders,
Larry's obituary can be found on the following website:
http://tinyurl.com/3u8kzkw
Memorials may be directed to the Kidney Cancer Association, online at:
https://secure.kidneycancer.org/np/clients/kca/donation.jsp or
mailed to: P.O. Box 3516 Oak Brook, IL 60522-3516
Hello all,
If you have a fond memory of Larry Semo that you would like to see included
in a tribute article in the next issue of *Colorado Birds*, please contact
me off-list. Good photos of Larry would be nice also, if you have any.
Nathan Pieplow
Editor, *Colorado Birds*
Boulder, Colorado
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Cobirders,
In every field, there are people who are at the very top, revered by the people
that know them. In every field, there are truly nice people, who are happy to
share what they know. But seldom, in any field, is there the expert at the
top—who also is the nicest person there, sharing
CO birders :
There was a White-eyed Vireo singing close to the Palmer Lake
Reservoir Trail Head parking lot this morning. It was seen ( and photographed
) along Monument Creek in dense willow carr and behavior was very skulking
allowing only brief views. Its typical song could be
Birders,
Last night before the DFO meeting at the DMNS, some friends and I were
enjoying the rose garden and hundreds of Canada Geese on the west side of
the museum when we began seeing small white egrets flying in to the far side
of the distant Ferril Lake. We watched more than 30 fly in
Hi COBirders,
The lake water is still high and the weather HOT, but it is late August and
that means we are getting ready for another banding season at Barr Lake!
While working on set-up this morning, I opened 7 nets for about 3 hours and
caught 24 birds, including 21 Yellow Warblers - young,
Thanks to several people who responded that the egrets are indeed Snowy
Egrets and each summer there is a large colony of snowys and Black-crowned
Night-Herons that nest on an island in Ferril L on the west side of the
DMNS. I hope someone is entering the data into the current BBA!
Thanks to
