I found a Sage Thrasher which is fairly uncommon for the Canon City area in
some 4-winged Saltbrush/cholla cactus habitat on the north side of town
where I often find our resident Curve-billed Thrashers. I watched the Sage
Thrasher perch on top of the shrub and flick it's wings while it got a
Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: October 12, 2014
email: r...@cfobirds.org
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert Sunday, October 12 sponsored by Denver
Field Ornithologists and Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species).
Surf Scoter
Good afternoon,
Some birds of note this weekend:
5 Turkey Vulture, Equalizer Lake, Oct. 11. Late.
1 ad. Lesser Black-backed Gull, Equalizer Lake, Oct. 11
1 distant Black-necked Stilt, Timnath Reservoir, Oct. 12. Late.
1 distant Snowy Egret, same location and date. Late.
Also, Red Crossbill
Beautiful weather but pretty much no birds for our last day. By 10:30 we
had banded 3 birds and recaptured 3 others. The 3 new included 2
unlikelies for the last day of the banding season - a Warbling Vireo
(only 3rd of season and 1st since 9/13) and a Nashville Warbler (semi-rare
for our
A RFI for the west slope. See below and please respond to:
rruv...@hotmail.com
I am thinking about visiting Grand Jxn for birding in November. Can you
suggest the best time that month for 5-7 days for both waterfowl and mtn
birds?
Thanks,
Bob
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Rachel Hopper
Ft. Collins, CO
This morning, I had a White-throated Sparrow(tan morph) show up in the
backyard pre-front. He has been here all day eating underneath the niger in
suburban Lakewood. This year it looks like we have an irruption of Pine
Siskens and Red-breasted Nuthatches along the Front Range.
On Friday, I
To this report I add:
At least 1 White-throated Sparrow on the Colorado State U. campus in Ft.
Collins today. I saw one and may have heard at least one more. The
White-throat was part of a flock that was in the grove of trees located
behind the Natural Resources building. I was talking the
