[cobirds] Rosy Finches at Red Rocks now, Henwood reports

2012-01-17 Thread Joe Roller
Mike Henwood just called me to report thirty Rosy Finches at dawn at the Red Rocks Trading Post (Jefferson County) with all four flavors represented, including at least one Black. The Golden-crowned Sparrow continues. Thanks, Mike, for your diligence in taking birdseed there almost daily and for

[cobirds] Colorado RBA, Tuesday, January 17, 2012

2012-01-17 Thread Mary Driscoll
Compiler: Mary Driscoll Date: January 17, 2012 e-mail: r...@cfobirds.org phone: 303-659-8750 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, January 17, 2012 sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message, you can

[cobirds] Re: Rosy Finches at Red Rocks now, Henwood reports

2012-01-17 Thread Art Hudak
Rosy-Finch breakdown: 23 Gray-crowned 3 Hepburn's 2 Brown-capped 2 Black-capped Art Hudak Denver On Jan 17, 7:49 am, Joe Roller jroll...@gmail.com wrote: Mike Henwood just called me to report thirty Rosy Finches at dawn at the Red Rocks Trading Post (Jefferson County) with all four flavors

[cobirds] Re: Rosy Finches at Red Rocks now, Henwood reports

2012-01-17 Thread Art Hudak
Sorry, my brain is still frozen after 2 hours on the deck. Not Black- capped just Black-Rosy Finch. Art Hudak Denver On Jan 17, 9:57 am, Art Hudak donotbeconfu...@comcast.net wrote: Rosy-Finch breakdown: 23 Gray-crowned 3 Hepburn's 2 Brown-capped 2 Black-capped Art Hudak Denver On Jan

[cobirds] Harlan's Hawk - C470 Belleview - Jeffco

2012-01-17 Thread mike
Around 12:30 this afternoon there was a Harlan's Hawk just north of the C470 Quincy Exit on the west side of the highway. The bird was perched low in a tree and had white mottling on the breast, which was evident to the naked eye. This bird may be the one Cyndy Johnson has reported in

[cobirds] a new year and opportunities for volunteering for birds

2012-01-17 Thread Scott E. Severs
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory has released their letter of volunteer opportunities for 2012 and folks might want to see if anything is of interest. The link is here: http://rmbo.org/v3/Portals/0/Documents/News%20releases/1-4-12%20Citizen%20science%20%20education%20opportunities%20-%20news.pdf

Re: [cobirds] Dinosaur Road Runner

2012-01-17 Thread Deb Carstensen
The road runner is on the western side of dinosaur Ridge approximately 75 yards off the road. He showing some interesting behaviors of walking to wish her steps and then fucking out his feathers completely and then walking a few more steps and then fucking noticed feathers. I don't know if it's

[cobirds] Greater Roadrunner, Dinosaur Ridge, Jefferson County

2012-01-17 Thread Todd Deininger
From Debbie Carstensen The road runner is on the western side of dinosaur Ridge approximately 75 yards off the road. He showing some interesting behaviors of walking to wish her steps and then flicking out his feathers completely and then walking a few more steps and then fucking noticed

[cobirds] Re: Greater Roadrunner, Dinosaur Ridge, Jefferson County

2012-01-17 Thread Lonny Frye
I love the assumed I-phone corrections in the text. Fucking feathers could indeed be a sign of courtship. (smiley emoticon) Lonny PS there are some hysterical I-phone messages at a website called damn you autocorrect! On Jan 17, 2:51 pm, Todd Deininger goldeneagle...@gmail.com wrote: From

[cobirds] Unidentified bird at home

2012-01-17 Thread Robert A. Spencer
Hi cobirders. Seems if a bird comes to my yard for 10 minutes I should be able to Id. it. But I couldn't so hope it comes again. It was down in the Chokecherry by the kitchen. It was all fluffed up and larger than the small birds. It took two bites of snow and moved up in better light.

[cobirds] Road Runner

2012-01-17 Thread Will Burt
Thanks to Deb Carstensen's prompt post, and that I live very near Dinosaur Ridge, I went over and finally successfully saw the Roadrunner at 3:20pm, on the first rock outcrop on the left of the service road, before you even come to the first point-of-interest displays as you walk up on the west

[cobirds] Barrow's Goldeneye Adams County

2012-01-17 Thread Chuck
Patty Echelmeyer and I found a Barrow's pair in placid water on the Platte near the pair of green metal benches between the UP bridge and the green and white water tower. Their proximity to the near shore and many Common Goldeneye gave us a rare opportunity to observe the magnitude of the contrast

[cobirds] Lots of replies to unid. bird!

2012-01-17 Thread Robert A. Spencer
Thanks all who sent replies 5 of 8 suggested W. Scrub Jay. Which I thought of first because I got 1 or 2 several times since Oct. 30 and last seen on Dec. 22. These were the first here in over 20 years!. I did not think to check immature or juvenile ones. I will check some more books for

[cobirds] road runner at Dinasaur ridge, regrets

2012-01-17 Thread Fiddlenurs
Once again, I am sorry for the terrible misunderstanding I had with Siri on my I Phone. I was so excited to see the bird, I dictated the email into the phone and didn't see Siri's interpretation of fluffing. Now I see that the email has been repeated with one of the offending words still

[cobirds] Fw: colorado birds

2012-01-17 Thread Dave Leatherman
Hello, Below is an email from a former colleague at CSU now living in Oregon. Dave Leatherman -- From: fitz...@science.oregonstate.edu Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:20 PM To: Dave Leatherman daleather...@msn.com Subject: colorado birds Hi