Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: September 22, 2012
email: rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, September 22, 2012,
sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory. If you are
What a great way to start a Saturday morning...first hearing then seeing a
pair of great horned owls talking to each other high on an electric pole. Makes
me smile.
Christine Bucher
Perched on the edge of Palmer Park, Colorado Springs
Sent from my way cool Ipod!
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All,
My dad John and I just spent a very productive hour at Last Chance:
-8 warbler sp incl Nashville, Townsend's and Ovenbird
-White-throated and Swamp Sparrows (extremely cooperative)
-Virginia Rail (ditto)
Also, at a private ranch in Lincoln Co we had a probable BAY-BREASTED WARBLER
(1st
I was joined by other birders (David Chartier, Glenn Walbek, Robb Hines, and
Mark Miller) today in Pueblo, the following were the highlights:
Philadelphia Vireo - 1 on the North Side of the River, near the Swim Beach,
seen by Charter and I), this is way west of where yesterday's bird was, so
Hello All,
Michael Kiessig, Rob Raker and I birded Bear Creek Lake Park (BCLP)
yesterday morning. As reported by others in various other locations,
we had mixed flocks of warblers (nothing rare) including large numbers
of Yellow-rumped Warblers. The flocks included Audubon's and Myrtle,
Hi
The Longspur challenge
Now that most empids have left Colorado, the different Warbling Vireo
populations have slipped out of town and the confusing Large White-headed
Gulls have yet to arrive, so how about traveling to the grasslands and start
sorting through flocks of first year
The number of new birds continues to be in the mid-30s, with lots of species
diversity, which we shared today with Hugh and Urling Kingery's ASGD
Beginning Birder Class. Here's the breakdown for the day:
Dusky Flycatcher 1
House Wren 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3
Swainson's
After six days in the
teens and twenties, numbers finally picked up today at Chico Basin Ranch, with
45 birds banded. Highlights included two Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and a female
Sharp-shinned
Hawk, our third this fall. Season total is now 634 birds of 50 species. Tallies
for the past
I spent the day at Jackson Lake with a Fort Collins Audubon field trip. The
weather was idyllic. The shallow lake continues to impress, and we tallied 18
species of shorebirds by walking onto the flats from the Lakeside Campground
with the afternoon sun at our backs. This is the southwest
A sharp looking juvenile American Golden-Plover was working the mudflats
among the fishermen at from 1735 hrs to sunset on the west side of Lagerman
Reservoir. It flew off to the NW with two Killdeer just after sunset,
seemingly spooked by a canoe that approached too close.
Two Horned Grebes, a
While we were visiting the Barr Lake banding station on Sept. 21, Meredith
brought in a female/juvenile black-chinned hummingbird that had gotten tangled
in the mist nets.What an experience, to see this tiny bird close up! Just
wanted to mention it.Polly ReetzDenver
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I birded Florence River Park a little yesterday and a lot today--yesterday
there was an immature Eastern Phoebe, about a dozen Yellow-rumped Warblers,
1 Orange-crowned and 4-5 Wilson's. Today it was bird-central---several
dozen Yellow-rumps in all phases of molt from breeding to winter plumage,
This morning I first found a female Williamson's Sapsucker in the pines at
the Abbey in Canon City then saw it be chased off by a Red-naped
Sapsucker. Though I have checked the Lakeside Cemetery today and several
times a week since I found the several Williamson's Sapsuckers there and on
the CC
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