Well, I've been looking closely through a half dozen field guides and in only
one is there an illustration very close to the black goose at Walden Ponds
today. In the Complete Sibley Field Guide on page 81 is a series of
illustrations of Muscovy duck. The illustration that best fits the bird I
Not earthshaking, but kind of surprising. We have the joy [?] of watching our
daughter's Ultimate Frisbee team compete in a tournament held at Fountain
Valley School, SE of Colorado Springs. Hot hot hot.
On the way out of the school yesterday afternoon we heard a Dickcissel singing
from a
To add to Hugh Kingery's post about Dickcissels in EPC : they nested in the
field north of Murphy Rd, between Elbert Rd and Eastonville Rd. They were there
all summer in 2001.
Cecile Lee
El Paso County
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Ray Fisher sent me this interesting email. Any comments?
Hugh Kingery
Franktown, CO
Our rain gauge observer network director Nolan Doeskan, former CO State
climatologist, says flickers are crowding into his apple tree in Fort
Collins...some say they were driven out of the hills by the fire
I suspect there may be two related factors influencing abnormal dispersal
of breeding birds in Colorado this summer. The first is the drought and the
second is the resulting increase in major wildland fires. I spent time in
five atlas blocks in the vicinity of South Park in recent weeks, and
Cobirders :
I found a singing Red-eyed Vireo along Monument Creek in the city Glen
Park trail . This is a mixed cottonwood , willow and pine riparian area east of
the Palmer Lake Reservoir trail head. Note that the Palmer Lake Reservoir trail
is closed to all hikers until further
I visited Last Chance again today and chatted with a nearbyrancher I
got to know during my
atlas work on his spread. He was one of the heroes of the Last Chance
fire, having disc'd
fire lines for hours. He saved his neighbors, then barely stopped the
fire only a few yards
from his own home.
He
My family and I birded Wolfcreek Pass yesterday morning (Thursday, 7/5/12).
Best birds were a family of American Three-toed Woodpeckers along the
Continental Divide Trail just south of the road. We watched at length while
the female foraged and fed a juvenile. A male and a 4th bird (presumed
Yesterday I took a drive through the west half of the recently-contained High
Park Fire west of Fort Collins. My route took me e to w thru Rist Canyon on
Larimer CR52E (due w of Bellvue), south on the Stove Prairie Road (Larimer
CR27), the w on Larimer CR44H into Buckhorn Canyon for about 5
The Boulder Daily Camera has three columnists who regularly write on birds
or other nature topics.
Joe Prentice focuses on birds:
http://www.dailycamera.com/recreation-columnists/ci_19723264?IADID=Search-www.dailycamera.com-www.dailycamera.com
Stephen R. Jones and Ruth Carol Cushman sometimes
Joe,
I know from all my years of IA and NE birding that there are such things as
stock tank ladders so that not only waterlogged birds, but mammals can get
themselves out if they have fallen in trying to get a drink.
I googled it and got an RMBO article! Yea for RMBO!
I stepped out on my porch just in time to see
a Peregrine nail a Magpie above Red Sandstone
Rd.in Vail.WOW!!!
Justin Dee Vail Co.
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Hello all;
My son and I found the Great Crested Flycatcher today near the same area in
Longmont. We drove by the school on the off - chance we could catch it
today (Friday, July 7th) at ~12:30pm. It was not calling but we found it
sitting on a circular concrete seating area to the south of the
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