Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: December 16, 2013
email: rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-6750 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Monday, December 16, 2013
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Hello Everyone,
The Varied Thrush is still visiting our yard as of this morning.
Sean Walters
Loveland, CO
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The Brant is still hanging around the major campground area next to the open
bathrooms.
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It appears the Pueblo Reservoir CBC final total is going to stay at 129
species, plus 6 count week only birds. No one was able to add any other owls,
and nothing else new was seen by anyone else. Five of the six count week only
birds, were below the dam, in the Rock Canyon/Valco Ponds area
Great raptor day yesterday--43 raptors seen between 0830-1130am. Primarily
Weld CR 27 between Pierce, Nunn and Carr.
Ferruginous Hawk - 5
American Kestrel - 8
Prairie Falcon - 3
Red-tailed Hawk - 11
Northern Harrier - 1
Rough-legged Hawk - 10
Golden Eagle - 2
Unidentified - 2
Great Horned Owl -
The pair of Oldsquaw reported earlier by Bryan Arnold were still present
yesterday afternoon. We saw them in the south-middle part of the lake,
easily viewed by walking halfway across the berm on the C470 end of the
res. We thought they were two females at first, as the male is quite a
At Chatfield I saw the continuing BRANT at about 9 am this morning, feeding
with Canada Geese between the perimeter road and the campground
registration building. The patch of open water at the marina had 6
RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS (5 males), 1 adult THAYER'S GULL, 1 CALIFORNIA,
along with
Steve Jones (CFO's 2013 Ron Ryder Award Recipient) is looking for
interested teen applicants for a paid ornithological study adventure to Hog
Island Maine.
Boulder County Audubon Society offers a full scholarship to a summer
ornithology camp for Colorado students ages 15-17. The Audubon Camp
I have uploaded a photos on my Birds and Nature
bloghttp://birdsandnature.blogspot.com/showing the upperparts of the
female sapsucker I have been blogging about.
Also I put one of the charts from the Project Sapsucker for scoring the
upperparts of sapsuckers and a discussion of what this bird
