[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 31 August 2014

Compiler: Joyce Takamine Date: August 31, 2014 email: r...@cfobirds.org This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert Sunday, August 31 sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species). Mississippi Kite

[cobirds] BAIRD's SPARROWS/YES

Sent from my iPhone Rachel Hopper Ft. Collins -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group,

[cobirds] Little Blue Heron at Alamosa NWR

This-past week I saw an immature Little Blue Heron on the Auto Tour Loop at the Alamosa National Wildlife Refuge. The bird is white, and has a prominent blue base to the bill. It was not re-seen yesterday but should be watched for in this area. I lead a bird trip yesterday to Alamosa

[cobirds] Baird Sparrow, Logan County

Some CFO field trips have found a Bairds Sparrow. Will try and get details soon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: [cobirds] Baird Sparrow, Logan County

Mark Peterson's group found one Baird's Sparrow along with some Grasshopper Sparrows and such on rd 93, just north if the intersection of Rd 40. This is south of I-76 from exit 155. Christian Nunes Sent from my iPhone On Aug 31, 2014, at 10:59 AM, Todd Deininger goldeneagle...@gmail.com

[cobirds] El Paso County Baird's Sparrows

Sorry. For clarification the Baird's Sparrows I saw this morning were the ones previously reported in El Paso County. Sent from my iPhone Rachel Hopper Ft. Collins -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group

[cobirds] No Buff-breasted Sand Jett Lake

12 sp. Shorebirds, 2 Peregrines. TK -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to

[cobirds] Hummingbird ID help, Larimer

Yesterday (Aug 30), I went to W Lake St in Fort Collins to get some photographs of a Calliope Hummingbird first reported by N Komar that has been around for the last week. There were several Hummers zipping around and feeding off a healthy clump of pinkish orange Agastache flowers. While

[cobirds] Hale Ponds, Yuma County - Alder Flyatcher

Greetings All. I spent 5 or so hours wandering around the Hale Ponds area. Like most of NE Colorado, migrant passerines were few. I don't know what happened to our Yellow Warbler passage, that should have peaked a week ago, nor our Wilson's Warbler passage, which should be in full force right

[cobirds] Baird's Sparrows--El Paso County

This morning, I was able to find 3 Baird's Sparrows along Drennan Rd west of Hemmingway. Many birders I came across had seen several Baird's in their searches. I'm guessing there are more than 4-5 Baird's Sparrow in the area. Great Colorado bird!! Photos of the bird can be seen below:

[cobirds] BLACKBURNIAN WARBER CANADA WARBLER; Prewitt Reservoir (Logan and Washington County, respectively)

On today's Denver Field Ornithologists to Prewitt Reservoir we found a fall male Blackburnian Warbler below the dam in the Black Locust grove. This grove is to the west of the Logan County parking lot below the dam ( Open Goggle Maps and copy/paste the following into the search box: 40.435750,