compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: September 12, 2011
e-mail: rba@cfo-link
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Monday, September 12, 2011
updated at 5:00 am, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message,
Decided to give Nunn's Raptor Alley an early season try.
Red-tailed Hawk - 4
Prairie Falcon
American Kestrel - 7
Swainson's Hawk
Ferruginous Hawk
Golden Eagle
Northern Harrier
Also, Say's Phoebe, Lark and Vesper Sparrows, Common Raven. and lots
of Lark Buntings.
Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn
Today on the north end of Lake Loveland were 5 White Pelicans and a Black
Crowned Night Heron.
Warner and Ruth Reeser _ Loveland
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Hi COBirders,
Report for Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory bird banding at Chico Basin Ranch
for Monday 9/12/2011.
89 new birds banded today, under much more normal circumstance - lots of birds
early, and continuing through the morning - and still catching birds when we
closed about 2pm. A big
The banding season has been slow so far at Ridgway State Park, but the
diversity has been fair. Since our first day of banding, we have added:
House Wren, Song Sparrow, Warbling Vireo, Black-capped Chickadee, Virginia’s
Warbler, Downy Woodpecker, Western Wood-Pewee, Yellow Warbler,
Black-throated
Sunday morning there were about 10-12 warblers until about 8:30 am - Townsends,
orange crowned, Wilson's - at the Smoky Hill Group Picnic site. Late morning a
Clark's grebe was drifting along the dam with a Western grebe, between the
tower and the marina - excellent facial markings and bill
Which reminds me, I had a frenetic female broad-tail yesterday, harassing two
black-capped chickadees up in a Russian olive beside my house--one of which
then flew down into a low aspen just a few feet from me. The hummer then
swooped in and started a fast-paced lateral sweep pattern in an arc
CO birders :
In addition to the RMBO banding report for Chico today a group from
the Springs found a Yellow-throated Warbler in the HQ willow/cotton wood
area ( photographed ) .HQ area also had a female type American Redstart , 8
Townsend's Warbler , Northern Waterthrush, lots of
