COBirders,
There is currently an adult ARCTIC TERN at Big Johnson reservoir. I found the
bird late yesterday in low light and the bird was distant so was not 100% sure
it was an Arctic. I watched the bird until it just got too dark to see it
anymore. SO I was hoping it would be there this
Compiler: Mary Driscoll
Date: September 9, 2014
email: r...@cfobirds.org
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Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species).
At about 7:15 this morning, there was a very chippy Northern Parula along
the Spring Creek Trail just west of Spring Canyon Park in west Fort
Collins.
Brad Biggerstaff
Fort Collins
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Let the quibble battle begin...
Ted said, But I think it's still the case that the peak volume of
individuals is in late August. Here's a graph that portrays that result:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-n9XnLoe1kDo/VA8ocfu0mEI/AAU/5Uqg4l-nhCQ/s1600/birds.jpg
The top curve (blue) is
An important graph, Ted, and it fits with my observation(s) that warblers
fill the trees mostly from Aug 25 to Sept 3.
Karl Stecher
Centennial
Ted Floyd writes:
Outstanding post by Bryan Guarente. I nominate it for
Best-COBirds-Post-of-the-Year award!
I also wish to quibble with
On Tuesday, September 9, 2014 11:35:23 AM UTC-6, Bryan Guarente wrote:
Let the quibble battle begin...
Actually, I don't have all that much quibbling left in me!
And I strongly concur with Bryan Guarente's basic caution about what we
detect vs. what's really out there.
In recent years,
Folks,
Rick Taylor, Aaron Driscoll, Mel and Jeanne Goff and I watched the Arctic Tern
today from about 11 a.m. til noon. This is a beautiful alternate plumage,
adult bird with gray body, black cap, long tail and small, blood-red bill. The
bird was actively feeding up and down the shores of
Hello Everyone,
I ran across a Blackburnian Warbler along the canal behind our house
today. It was very difficult to detect and continue to watch
(relatively slow moving bird in thick trees!) and when I returned ~20
minutes later I could not refind it, even after 1.5 hrs. About 4 hrs
later, I
Between the 6 a.m. showers and the 1 p.m. downpour, we were able to band 90
new birds today. This is the busiest early September banding at Barr in
YEARS. A huge number of Wilson's Warblers makes the difference - ended up
with 70 today! But also a nice collection of other species:
Downy
Georgia Doyle and I birded Crow Valley Campground this morning. It was not
super birdy but we did have a few nice things:
Gray Flycatcher (1) in the dry creekbed s of the Main Picnic Shelter
Hammond's Flycatcher (1, possibly 2) in the dry creekbed south and sw of the
Main Picnic Shelter
A few birds of note from my hike on the Fountain Valley trail today, Sept
9, not including the usual suspects:
- I put up a flock of ?200? chipping sparrows on the west leg of the loop
just north of the fork. I glassed about 20, did not see anything but
chippies.
- As I was glassing 2
I took a quick birding bike ride along the Poudre Bike Trail and I had a
male Blackburnian Warbler about 0.45 miles west of the Poudre Bike Trail
and Lee Martinez Park trail intersection. Then the rain came down and I
lost it foraging high in some cottonwood trees.
good birding,
Rob Sparks
a
This morning (9/9) I walked a 7.5 mile loop in Ken Caryl Valley
circumnavigating the northern developed area of Ken Caryl Ranch, mostly
passing through grassland and scrub with some riparian, Gambel oaks and
thickets, sometimes close to planted back yards. (No open public access on
trails).
Best
This may not be exactly the same, but a couple of years ago, I had a great blue
heron walk into the pond where I live, wade out and then float in the water for
15 minutes or so. His wings for outstretched over the water.
I had some concerns that this was a suicidal gesture on the heron's
The morning started with drizzle and occasional showers, but we managed to
band for a few hours today before a downpour starting around 11:00. It was
very slow until right before closing, when we caught 11 Western Tanagers in
two nets, bringing our total banded today to 14 birds.
Breakdown of
I did observe an entire flock of white-faced ibis (same order as night-herons:
Ciconiiformes) land in the center of a deep lake, joining a communal roost of
gulls. They seemed very uncomfortable and almost immediately took off again.
Nick Komar
Fort Collins CO
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On Sep 7,
Were they uncomfortable with the depth of the water or the sudden realization
of the company they were keeping? Deb Carstensen, Littleton
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On Sep 9, 2014, at 9:33 PM, Nick Komar quetza...@comcast.net wrote:
I did observe an entire flock of white-faced ibis (same order as
I believe it was the depth. They were attracted by the hordes of gulls. They
circled around the gull flock several times before landing. They probable were
hoping for a submerged sand bar.
Nick Komar
Fort Collins CO
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On Sep 9, 2014, at 10:50 PM, Deborah Carstensen
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