Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: October 3, 2012
email: rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, October 3, 2012,
sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
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Hi All,
After looking at Rob Raker's photos for the first time last night (see
link below), the bird I reported on 9-28-12 as a Pine Warbler turns
out to be a Blackpoll Warbler. The link to Rob's photos is found below.
Photo 1 shows the yellow feet of the Blackpoll Warbler - a Pine
This bird is down stream of Snakeskin Picnic Area below Pueblo Res dam right
now.
Brandon K. Percival, Pueblo West, CO -- sent from my new phone!.
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The adult Red-necked Grebe found last Sat. by Ted Floyd was working the
shallow waters very close to the far western shore this morning. The raft
of birds in the center of Lagerman Res. had a nice number of Ruddy Ducks
(27) in among the Western Grebes and coots.
--Scott
Scott E. Severs
Longmont,
The Yellow-throated Vireo that I saw this morning, didn't hang out too long in
the bushes and trees, where I first saw the bird. Clif Smith came over fairly
quickly, and we couldn't re-find the bird. It was with some other birds, and
the bushes and trees it was in, seems to be a good place to
Early today I found a Black-and-white Warbler hanging out with a Townsend's
Warbler at Florence River Park in Fremont County.
Robb Hinds
Colorado Springs
El Paso County
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Hi COBirders,
Full report to follow, Total banded today about 25.
A good day at the Chico Basin Ranch- RMBO banding area. Biggest numbers were of
White-crowned Sparrows, and Hermit Thrush, but a lone White-throated Sparrow
(hatch-year) was also banded. Also a few Wilson's Warblers,
Hi All,
Not near as birdy this morning as yesterday in Belmar Historic Park in
Lakewood. Micheal Kiessig, Rob Raker, and I started out finding our
first small mixed flock of birds along the Horse Trail near the
footbridge. The flock consisted of Yellow-rumped Warblers (both
Audubon's
Hi All,
Michael Kiessig and I stopped by Bear Creek Lake Park (BCLP) late this
morning after visiting Belmar earlier. We birded around Pelican Point
and had two small mixed flocks which included Yellow-rumped Warblers
(both Audubon's and Myrtle), Orange-crowned Warbler, Wilson's Warbler,
First sounds coming thru my bedroom window this morning about a mile east of
the CSU campus in Fort Collins were the calls of two adult White-throated
Sparrows feeding in the grass with Chipping Sparrows.
At Crow Valley Campground at Briggsdale (Weld), the highlights were:
Palm Warbler
Totals for the first three days
of the final week of fall banding at Chico Basin Ranch are:
Monday, Oct. 1
Total: 34
White-breasted
Nuthatch – 1 (Eastern)
Pygmy Nuthatch – 1
(new station bird)
Brown Creeper - 1
Ruby-crowned
Kinglet – 3
Hermit Thrush - 2
Orange-crowned
Warbler – 2
Thanks to Setta Moss, I found the acorn woodpeckers at Pubelo Mtn. Park
yesterday. They were right on the advertised. Working away on their
granary tree. I hope it holds up thru the winter winds as it's a big,
tall, old, brittle, ponderosa! I may be mistaken, but I think I saw three
The weather felt like summer but the birds told us it was fallleaning
towards sparrows and bigger birds with fewer warblers. Total of 21 new
birds caught:
Red-shafted Flicker 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Hermit Thrush 1
Orange-crowned Warbler2
Yellow-rumped
On the afternoon shift at Belmar I had (2) Palm Warblers on the east side
of the small lake, and fewer than 20 Yellow-rumped, nothing else of note.
Art Hudak
Denver County
On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 2:20:57 PM UTC-6, Hawkhen or Mike Henwood
wrote:
Hi All,
Not near as birdy this morning
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