Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: October 28, 2014
email: r...@cfobirds.org
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert Tuesday, October 28 sponsored by
Denver Field Ornithologists and Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species).
Surf Scoter
Look at female Blue-throated, It appears to be a bit too gray for a Mag.
Scott Rashid
Estes PArk
On 10/27/2014 11:43 AM, Wayne Wathen wrote:
I am no expert on hummingbirds but your call of a Magnificent
Hummingbird female looks good to me. Great photos.
Wayne Wathen
Highlands Ranch
The hummingbird just arrived for her early morning feed, surviving a night
(not as cold as the prior) getting down to 30 degrees.
I may not be at home today, but visitors are welcome to come up on the
deck. The bird will feed with humans sitting (photographing) on the deck,
but please don't go
Looks like a Blue-throated to me also. Can't see rufous on a Mag, but in one
picture I felt I saw much rusty on back and wings. More pictures, please :)
Jonelle Balais
Littleton
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I asked Sheri Williamson (hummer expert in AZ) to look at the photos and she
says it is a female mag. Long bill, small white tail tips.
She also suggests that Adam use a 3:1 sugar mixture to encourage the bird to
move south. According to Sheri, sometimes this works, although
To me, the length and curve of the beak seems more consistent with
Magnificent?
Diana Beatty
Security
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:27 AM, 'barredowl' via Colorado Birds
cobirds@googlegroups.com wrote:
Looks like a Blue-throated to me also. Can't see rufous on a Mag, but in
one picture I felt I
Hi everyone - here are some links to some photos of the HB from this
morning. Don't know if it will help the decide the discussion, but there
is plenty of detail in the photos.
https://flic.kr/p/oUjaRd
https://flic.kr/p/pyHD13
Mark Minner-Lee
Superior, CO
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Diana
Hi all
Randy Lenrtz and I saw a Red-necked Grebe at Cherry Creek Res from the east
side, south of the swim beach, from the picnic tables all in a row, at 11:00
this morning. The grebe was swimming amongst Western Grebes,first noticed by
dingy gray neck, whitish cheeks and long-ish bill (not as
SE corner of Grasmere Lake, the southern lake in washington park, with 80
bufflehead.
Joe Roller
Demver
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Hi,
I birded parts of the CSU campus today. On the west side of the arboretum,
I got a good but brief look at a 'Red' Fox Sparrow on the ground near the
fence line. It was maybe a couple hundred feet north of Lake St. I am
familiar with this subspecies from migration and winter in the
Had a good morning of birding at the Grand Junction Wildlife Area (GJWA),
which is near the confluence of the Colorado and Gunnison Rivers in Grand
Junction.
Lots of sparrows including an adult White-striped White-throated Sparrow, 6
Lincoln's Sparrows, about 20 Chipping Sparrows(down in numbers
Hi, Hiking up the gravel road at Rabbit Mountain at 8am I observed
a flock of 16 Evening Grosbeaks in trees for several minutes. Higher up on
Eagle Wind trail I had lots of Junco activity and 3 Brown Creeper. This
past Sunday morning Sally Swain and I hiked the Lily Lake trail just south
COBirders,
The female Magnificent was back in action at Adam's feeders today. Photos
can be seen here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pgburke/15035194153/in/photostream/.
I also heard a report of a dark morph Broad-winged Hawk seen from his deck
earlier in the day...sorry I missed THAT!
Thanks to
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