[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Compiler: Joyce Takamine Date: October 9, 2012 email: rba AT cfobirds.org phone: 303-659-8750 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, October 9, 2012, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are

[cobirds] HERMIT WARBLER still present at Last Chance 8:30am

The Hermit Warbler is still present at Last Chance Reststop as of 830am, reported to me by Mark Peterson.  There is probably a crowd out there, enjoying this major Colorado rarity.  Luckily I've found two of them in SE Colorado in the 90s. Good birding,   Brandon Percival Pueblo West, CO

[cobirds] Raptor Alley/Nunn

WCR 27 from WCR 90 to WCR 120 Red-tailed Hawk - 11 Prairie Falcon - 2 American Kestrel - 9 Golden Eagle - 2 Ferruginous Hawk - 4 Burrowing Owl - 1 (WCR 96/27) Swainson's Hawk - 1 Others: Sandhill Crane - 300-400+ (WCR 100) Northern Shrike Mountain Bluebird - 28+ White-crowned Sparrow - 20+

[cobirds] Last Chance - Washington County

Thanks Steve for the find yesterday of the Hermit Warbler, and to Kathy for refinding it this morning. For anyone thinking of heading out there, the Hermit Warbler was in the same location (north east corner) as yesterday. Other birds present to help entice you all out there were:

[cobirds] Junco arrivals

The past few days have delivered the following races of Junco to my feeders: . hyemalis slate-colored (today) . shufeldti Oregon (today) . aikenii white-winged (yesterday) - not seen today . mearnsi pink-sided (10/4) - been present since And I still have

[cobirds] CFO Photo Quiz

Hi all: I apologize for the snafu with posting the October photo quizzes. I have little Internet access here and I thought that I had posted them, already. I have put up the current quiz, which runs through Sunday night. I hope to catch up on solutions this week, but we'll see. Enjoy,

[cobirds] RMBO Barr Banding Station Report, 10/9/12

The weather predictors got it wrong today..Not close to 58 and partly sunny! It was cold and gray when we opened at 6:40 and colder and getting damp about 3 hours later when we gave up because it was just too cold for both birds and humans. Did have a couple of cool birds, including our first

[cobirds] Com. Nighthawk - Longmont +question

Returned from NOT seeing the hummingbird at Bill Schmoker¹s house. (BTW, the weather report was rather off!) However, on the way home I did see a Common Nighthawk on Colo. 119 just west of Hoover Rd. So this leads to a question: what is the latest date for Com. Nighthawk for Boulder

[cobirds] Mineral County, below Wolf Creek Pass

This AM (10/8) the most interesting mountain bird was a dark morph Red-tailed Hawk at Shaw Lake, above Big Meadows Res. I would appreciate someone's telling me, please, relative to the red-tails down in the San Luis Valley. Lakes had only some very common stuff and very little of it. At

[cobirds] American Dipper near Lowell Ponds today

Hi CObirders I relocated an American Dipper in Clear Creek at Lowell Blvd.(Adams Co.) at about 4:15 pm this afternoon. This is the same location as the earlier sightings. Bob Canter, Denver CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group.

[cobirds] Another Chance, Washington County

Hello COBirders, Barb and I saw the wonderful Hermit Warbler, a lifer, at 1 pm today. Thanks to Steve Mlodinow for finding it! Enjoyed seeing Mark, Phil, Jim, and other birders at a cold and overcast Last Chance. Here is a 16 photo slide show, about 1 1/2 minutes to view: http://bit.ly/WP7QtD

[cobirds] Golden-crowned Sparrow, Teller Farms, Boulder, Cnty 10/9

For the third fall-winter in a row, a Golden-crowned Sparrow is frequenting the windbreak of planted junipers at the N. Teller Farms parking lot (Valmont Rd, just west of 95th St). The bird is in adult non-breeding plumage. As the general date for the arrival of this species at our latitude is