COBirders,
I decided to make a quick run over to a pond right where Stetson Hills road
crosses Sand Creek, just west of the intersection with Peterson road. I got
there around 6:45 so did not have a lot of time. At the north end of the pond
where the foot bridge crosses a little feeder creek
Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: March 10, 2014
email: rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, March 11, 2014, sponsored
by the Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.
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A serious number of bohemian waxwings are working the Yampa River bugfest as
new hatches are available on each sunny day. Almost any bridge over the Yampa
in town is offering great views of flocks of 50-200 waxwings feasting on the
wing. Tom Litteral, Steamboat Springs
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Hi,
Interesting to read Tom Litteral's post this morning. Does anyone know of
a somewhat reliable location for Bohemian Waxwing within an hour or two
drive of Loveland/Ft. Collins? Ebird has no sightings from the area this
winter and I haven't seen sightings posted to the listserv this winter.
Christmas Bird Counts in Colorado, on 14 December 2013 had a few Bohemian
Waxwings. The Fort Collins CBC found three and the Granby CBC found 95, though
the most were at Steamboat Springs with 419. It hasn't been a big year for
them in Colorado, this winter, last winter was much better.
This is not an invasion year for Bohemian Waxwings. The intriguing aspect
of this report is that this now represents the third credible
sighting/sightings for the Steamboat area during non-invasion years (over
the last ten years or so). Is there some other dynamic that encourages
Bohemian
I haven't seen any waxwings in the Fort Collins area this year, either. One
reason I've considered is that were late freezes last spring that killed
off a lot of flowering tree buds that normally would have matured into the
berries waxwings and robins seem to love. No berries in the usual
Yesterday, while checking and repairing bluebird boxes on my trail at
Cherokee Ranch, Michael Kiessig and I spotted a dusty colored bird in the
oak scrub. It was a canyon towhee scratching in the leaf litter. It wasn't
the least bit frightened and we got really close looks at it. I eventually
got
Thanks for the explanation, Dave. I saw quite a few waxwings last year, as
did everybody else. I saw most of them in taller trees, but that's just
because that's where they were. :-) All of the trees near campus and around
town where I saw them last year have no fruit. One reason I paid some
Tom Litteral posted this morning about flocks of Bohemian Waxwings feasting on
insects hatching from the Yampa River in Steamboat Springs, visible from
multiple vantages. I forwarded his COBIRDS message to my entomologist buddy
Dr. Boris Kondratieff at CSU. Boris has described for the first
Dinosaur Ridge
Colorado, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 11, 2014
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Black Vulture0
During the snow storm today around 2:00 PM 10 American White Pelicans flew
onto duck lake in Denver's city park. With the pelicans there were about 50
snow geese 5000 Canada/cackling geese and an assortment of waterfowl
including 40 ruddy ducks, the highest number I've counted on duck lake. As
Yesterday I spotted 4 Sandhill Cranes in the ag fields on MacKenzie Ave.
They have been feeding in these fields off and on (railroad trains and Dept
of Corrections vehicles flush them frequently) yesterday and today. These
fields had manure spread on them last week and I believe the cranes as
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