[cobirds] Field Trip Announcement: Gullapalooza to be held February 2, 2013

Hello, Birders. The annual gull-watching extravaganza known as Gullapalooza will be held in 2013 on Saturday, February 2nd. We will begin at noon at the usual meeting place: at the headquarters to Xcel Energy's Valmont Station, off 63rd Street in Boulder, Boulder County. More details to come,

[cobirds] Update on Sandhill Crane conservation in Colorado

Hello, Birders. Here's some information on crane conservation in Colorado, in particular as the matter relates to a proposal to allow hunting of Sandhill Cranes in Colorado. First, here's an end of the year press release from the newly formed Colorado Crane Conservation Coalition:

[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Friday, December 28, 2012

Compiler:Joyce Takamine Date: December 28, 2012 email: rba AT cfobirds.org phone:303-659-8750 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Friday, December 28, 2012, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in

[cobirds] Redpolls - Pitkin County

Hi all Firstly: Season's Greetings and best wishes for a healthy and wildlife-filled 2013 Great to be back in Colorado - on+off for the next 5 months.. hope to enjoy your company soon at some great spot or another.. Also, I'm very much looking forward to joining the Aspen CBC this coming

[cobirds] Rosy-Finches - Red Rocks - Jeffco

Hi All, Since we had a skiff of snow last night, I put some seed out early ( I was back home by 8 am) and had approximately 10 Rosy-Finches show up at the feeders behind the Red Rocks Trading Post. There were two Black Rosy-Finches (one adult one immature) among the small flock of

[cobirds] Redpolls @ Discovery Museum, Larimer

Hi All, As of yesterday morning there were Redpolls coming to the Discovery Museum's backyard feeders in Ft. Collins. They can be viewed from INSIDE the back glass doors or windows. While Jim Thompson and I were there a Brown Creeper flew erratically into the back door and took quite a few

[cobirds] Pueblo Reservoir was good this afternoon 12/28

I only looked from the southeast side of Pueblo Reservoir and the South Shore Marina at Pueblo Reservoir this afternoon.  I hadn't been out to the Reservoir since Dec 15th, and there are a lot more birds than there was back on that date.  Highlights today follow: Red-throated Loon - 1 Pacific

[cobirds] RE: spam question

The address (cobirds@googlegroups.commailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com) is already in my personal Contacts. And not all of the messages from that group get caught by Ironport-it's been about 1 or 2 each day. Seems odd. Nothing urgent, just a bit of a pain to have to get on VPN to release them

[cobirds] Recall: spam question

Mitchell, Christina would like to recall the message, spam question. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

[cobirds] Mallard hybrid

Hi all: Ted Floyd wrote: female plumage overall (no ruddy suffusion on breast, uppertail coverts uncurled and concolor with body, etc.) uniform yellow bill, a hair duller than the yellow on the bill of nearby Mallards fairly bright/light purplish speculum, with little or no white fringing

Re: [cobirds] Mallard hybrid

This is where photographs come in handy. However, based on the description of essentially an apparent female Mallard with a yellow bill, what comes to my mind is “Mexican” Mallard. All ages of male American Black Duck would be quite a bit darker than typical female Mallards and would sport

[cobirds] Upcoming CBC on Jan 1, Tuesday, Loveland CO

Quick note to let everyone know that there is still space to join a team for the Loveland CBC in southeast Larimer County on Jan 1, New Year’s Day. Skilled observers in particular are needed for some of the sectors. Interesting birds that have been seen this month in the circle include Black

[cobirds] Hummingbird Identification?

Can anyone help identify this hummingbird which was spotted in Phoenix, AZ last week? It is a regular to the feeder in a suburban location. Thank you! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to

[cobirds] Boulder raven antics

Yesterday at the 29th Street Mall in Boulder, a pair of common ravens was perched in the roof trusses of the roof over the parking garage. Their vocalizations were tremendously amplified, resonating through the garage and the walkway. They weren't feeding on anything, just sitting and

Re: [cobirds] Boulder raven antics

I would not have mentioned this, but I thought it would make an interesting piggy-back on Elena's comments. Ted Cooper and I did a trip yesterday that started at Red Rocks, and wound its way from Baseline to Legion Park, on to Cottonwood Marsh and 75th Street, over to the cardinal site, up to