Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: June 7, 2012
email:rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, June 7, 2012, sponsored
by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If
you are phoning in a message,
Hello, Birders.
I ain't no Mike Henwood, but I can report a grand total of one (1) singing
Ovenbird in the Mesa Trail complex, Boulder County, early this morning,
Thursday, June 7th. The bird was along the middle of the three spurs that
connect that Shadow Canyon and Mesa trails. Coordinates:
At least two male Dickcissels and two male Bobolinks were in one of the
alfalfa fields north of the old Dodd homestead, northeast of the
intersection of N. 73rd St. and Niwot Rd. (Boulder Cnty), or due east of
Dodd Res. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more males on territory in
those fields.
Today, in Green Mtn-Lakewood we have a White-winged Dove visiting our backyard
feeders. This is only the second time this The last time we had this dove was
back in 2007.
Mark Chavez
Lakewood-Green Mtn
http://jaeger29.smugmug.com/
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Mary Burger and I met at Chatfield to look for the vireo nest. We spent a
half hour with another birder who had seen it a few days ago, but was
looking in the wrong tree. I walked on down a few yards farther and, just
as Larry's wonderfully explicit June 1 posted directions state (copy in my
Hello, Birders.
Come caper with us again! The first Great Boulder Caper, held Nov. 27th of last
year, was great fun. Trip report here: http://tinyurl.com/6v2spa8
Our second installment of the Great Boulder Caper promises to be just as fun!
Join Denver Field Ornithologists and the American
Hi all,
A friend and I were at my pygmy-owl nest for two and a half hours before we
watched the female enter the cavity with a chipmunk. This pair has to hunt far
a field from theri nest to find food because it is so dry in the area of the
nest. There are at least two young in the nest and I
