I would like to add to Carl's report: Clark's Grebe, Peregrine Falcon, Solitary
Sandpiper, Western Wood-Pewee, Red-breasted Nuthatch and Hermit Thrush on the
Barr Lake SP bird walk this morning.
Ira Sanders
Golden, CO
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Date: May 11, 2014
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I just happen to look out on the Homestead trail behind my house to see a group
of 75+ Chipping sparrows working their way quickly due North through the
scrub-type brush. I missed the beginning of the flock, so what I estimated was
mid to tail end of the group. No snow here yet, but the sky is
I was able to refind one of the ruddy turnstones along with 5 black- belly
plovers 3 Willets and a lot of shore birds turnstone was at the northeast
side.med to heavy rains with low clouds.
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The Pawnee is about as green as I have ever seen it. I birded a little
with Jim Sedgwick (a long-time Pawnee Grasslands expert). He said he had
only seen it this green a few other times in hundreds of visits. Crow
Valley Campground is particularly interesting since it has a full stream
Brandon Percival is reporting a singing male BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER at the
south end of Lamar Community College woods in Prowers County.
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Today's RBA has to be the mother of all RBA's, perhaps in its history. This
set of birds would be the envy on any state in the U.S. This seems like an
appropriate time to thank its compiler JOYCE TAKAMINE, and all the other folks
who have done this largely thankless job over the years,
Thanks, Dave. Joyce is a gem.
And add Norm Erthal to the list of dutiful compilers.
Joe Roller, Denver
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Although I'm stuck at home getting ready to leave for a long work
trip, in my brief walk with the dog just now the trees were active
with birds (thrush sp. Spizella sp. Western Kingbird, Yellow Warbler)
in about a tenth of a mile. So pull on the galoshes and the rain gear
and go check out
Let's not forget Ira sanders too
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Bill and I spent Saturday May 10 at Crow Valley Campground and on the Pawnee
Grassland.
The stream at Crow Valley was still too deep for us to cross so we birded the
periphery.
We saw the reported regulars
Western Kingbirds galore
One Eastern Kingbird
Lincoln's Sparrow
Yellow Warbler
Brandon Percival is reporting numerous birds from the woods at Lamar
Community College/Prowers County.
Wood Thrush
Tennessee Warbler
Oven Bird (2)
American Redstart
Summer Tanager
Indigo Bunting
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I also saw a Common Loon at Aurora Rampart Reservoir around 6 pm. It was
most likely the same one. It called once then flew north toward Chatfield.
An apparent 2nd year Bald Eagle was also at the reservoir. I also found my
FOY Virginia's Warbler right at the hogback in Roxborough State Park.
We are searching for Red-faced Warbler. Will update.
Glenn Dunmire
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I had 2 singing Bullock's Orioles and a B-G Gnatcatcher, several Spotted
Sandpipers, a Snowy Egret plus two drake Green-winged Teals to add to Ben's
list at Bluff Lake when I visited on Friday between 11 am and 1 pm. My
best bird was a Green-tailed Towhee.
Cheers,
Chip Clouse
Olde Town Arvada
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We had a pretty ideal day for our annual spring bird count and fundraiser. Each
year, Valley birders select a charity (this year two of them), and we gather
pledges. This year we exceeded last years donations and will be donating in
excess of $1000 to local conservation groups. The two groups
40 Willet -
swim beach parking
500 or more Lark Buntings
250 or more Lark Sparrows
Hundreds of assorted icterids
Glenn Walbek
Castle Rock, CO
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A heard then Saw a Black-throated Blue Warbler in my catalpa tree this
morning at 10:30 am. Although I only briefly watched it through the
binoculars, I heard it over a period of 10 minutes in a driving sleet.
I was on my way to church, but I am now changing to my birding clothes and
water proof
Hi COBirders
Ho-lee- Cow! I went to CSR today to check on conditions, put things away well
before the storm, and maybe throw up a net for a while, as the winds were
building. Then I couldn't get the nets down! I had more birds in 90 minutes
than the rest of the season so far. About as close
All,
The Black Phoebe reported yesterday was at the NE corner of the pond on
109th Street just north of Jasper Road, just east of Hwy 287, at 7:15 this
morning. This was a new Boulder County species for me, having missed a
bird by one minute a few years ago.
The east CU Campus had a lot of
Too many lark bunting to count
Willets (swim beach)
Lesser yellowleg (swim beach)
Wilsons Phalaropes (swim beach)
Indigo bunting (South of swim beach)
Loggerhead shrike (plum creek)
Common Yellowthroat (plum creek)
No redstart or vireo at deer creek inlet that I could find.
Matt Crooks
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Franklin gulls
Solitary and spotted sandpipers
Western Tanagers
Blue gray gnatcatchers
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Around hail, snow, and rain squalls a search of the area came up negative.
The habitat was very birdy this morning with lots of warbler, kinglet, etc.
activity. Another search tomorrow? We gave it a good try Dennis!
Glenn Dunmire
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This morning at Sombrero Marsh, in addition to the usual suspects (coots,
red-winged blackbirds, yellow-headed blackbirds, gadwalls, barn swallows,
etc) were 4 Wilson's phalaropes, a flock of about 10 chipping sparrows, and
close to 30 violet-green swallows. Also present was a group of 10
Hundreds of blackbirds. Hundreds Lark, Chipping, Vesper Sparrows.
50, or so, Lark Buntings and 50, or so, White-crowned Sparrows.
A few Brewer's Sparrows, one Green-tailed Towhee and one Lazuli Bunting.
Oddest was a Solitary Sandpiper on the path at the south end of the East boat
launch parking
Late this morning, Cheryl Teuton, Dan Brook, Jeff Dunning, Steve
Mlodinow and I enjoyed the male Painted Bunting in Picture Canyon,
Baca County.
He continues to sing about 200 yards south of the trailhead on the
west side of the trail.
Thank you Chris for getting the word out.
Good birding,
Keeping with the fallout reports, Sondermann Park midday today had a lot of
birds. The best was a *Northern Waterthrush* in the northern part of the
the park. Also a *MacGillivray's Warbler *near the entrance. Yellow-rumps
(Audubon's and Myrtle's) by the dozens and Chipping Sparrows (and maybe
Kara Carragher and I had a great day of birding in SE Colorado today.
Thanks to Rachel Hopper for posting the Lamar C.C. birds this morning, to alert
other birders, that things are happening in Lamar.
Here is the recap on what we saw today:
Lamar High School, Prowers County grove:
Nashville
COBirders,
I was lucky to bump into Gene Fry while picking up my kids on 15th between
Spruce and Pine... In addition to the LABU there were Chipping and Clay-colored
Sparrows, Western Bluebird, Yellow-rumped Warbler and likely more...all very
busy feeding.
Ironically, I was taking a break from
Hi all,
I forgot we saw three Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and the Eastern Phoebe as well.
The CFO Group found some other goodies, that we didn't see here and at Hasty
Campground today.
One more note, a very large part of a cottonwood tree fell down over the canal
road, just east of Road 35. So,
Hi folks,
Like Glenn and Dennis earlier, I searched the Dolores River Valley this
afternoon from about 3 to 5 for the Red-faced Warbler, but to no avail. It was
quite blustery much of the time, and at the end I got chased out of the valley
by a graupel squall, but there was a relatively calm
sponsored a three day trip to Southeast Colorado this weekend, visiting areas
from Eads to Lamar, around to Baca County and back to La Junta. Let me thank
CFO VP, Christian Nunes and John Vanderpoel for helping me lead this group of
11 birders on an outstanding weekend that we won't soon
Couldn't stand it any longer, so made a quick trip to Waneka Lake and
Greenlee to catch the skyfall of birds.
At the parking lot, I spooked a nice flock of spizellas. When I got out of
the car and began walking toward them in the snow, they began moving toward
me! It proved to be a mixed flock of
Peter, there was a nice green tailed towhee that popped out of the bushes
on the corner. Also a huge flock of sparrows numbering over a hundred was
going up and down the alley hitting all the bare spots and edges looking
for dandelion seeds. The Hackberry trees behind the church are key to
Definitely a LOT of birds in survival mode today.
Weld County Road 17 (short spur north of SR14)
Large group of birds feeding on dandelion seeds:
Lark Sparrow (20+)
Chipping Sparrow (15)
Clay-colored Sparrow (5)
Vesper Sparrow (10)
House Finch (5)
Windsor Lake (town of Windsor), sw corner
Hello, Birders.
Late this snowy Sunday afternoon, May 11, I stopped by the playa with many
names. Anyhow, the place on the west side of 109th street, north of Jasper
Road, south of Boulder Creek. Notable among the shorebirds was an alternate
adult hendersoni Short-billed Dowitcher. I had a
8 Clay-Colored Sparrows were flitting through the open space east of Blue
Mountain Elementary School in west Longmont this morning.
Kat Bradley-Bennett
Longmont
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Hey, COBirders,
This spring storm brought down a motley crew to our partially replanted
backyard: bushtit pair; black-headed grosbeak white-breasted nuthatch; 1
gray-headed junco (after having none for the past two weeks); an Audubon's
yellow-rump ground-feeding in the snow with a small flock
Some late postings, CU East Campus has remained productive. Before the
storm I had Least Flycatchers, American Redstart, Black-throated Gray
Warbler, and Northern Parula in the last week. As well as nice number of
things like Wilson's, and Orange-crowned Warbler around.
Today was exciting all
Between 6 and 7:30 pm last evening an amazing number of neotropical birds
moved through my Canon City yard:
Rose-breasted Grosbeak-both a male and a female (first of the year sighting)
Evening Grosbeak-several calling loudly
Black-headed Grosbeak-a male and an immature
Yellow Warbler-several
Today was a very exciting day for me, as the Front Range fallout of birds
was like nothing I had ever enjoyed back in CA! Some of the nicest birds
were in my yard or near my home at Massey Draw in Ken Caryl Valley. The
snow was much deeper there than over at Chatfield or even nearby at South
Lots of action on the Canon City Riverwalk yesterday with a Broad-winged
Hawk fly-over and a first of the year MacGillivray's Warbler foraging along
the side of the bluff trail. Also on the bluff trail was a Dusky
Flycatcher, softly calling. The Black-headed Grosbeak that had recently
arrived
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