[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 3 December 2014

Compiler: Joyce Takamine Date: December 3, 2014 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert Wednesday, December 3 sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species). Trumpeter Swan (*El Paso/Pueblo)

[cobirds] Thanksgiving weekend highlights and Larimer County Gulls

Greetings All Photos of some of the highlights from Thanksgiving Weekend are at https://www.flickr.com/photos/36088296@N08/ This includes birds from ducks to finches, but there are a lot of gull photos including a GW Gull and a GW x Herring Gull. The gull photos are mostly from the

[cobirds] Horseshoe Reservoir, Larimer, gulls

This morning, the goldeneye-gull show was impressive in the northwest corner of Horseshoe Lake, observed at fairly close range through scopes from Elm Court (looking north). Highlight was a textbook adult Siberian Herring (Vega) Gull. Details below (with ebird checklist). I hope my photos came

[cobirds] Long-tailed Duck, Windsor Lake

There is a female LTD at Windsor Lake (not reservoir) for any who might be birding the area. It is associating with a large raft of goldeneye. Norm Lewis Lakewood Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To

[cobirds] Sandhill Crane. Larimer county

Prospect ponds west of running deer. A 1st year crane flew into the cows pasture with some geese. No Greater White-fronted so far. Megan Miller Fort Collins. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and

[cobirds] Fwd: Greater White-fronted Goose, Fort Collins, CO, Larimer County

Around noon today, 12/03/14, Tom and Mary France went by Prospect Ponds in Fort Collins, CO. As you turn off Prospect south onto Sharp Point, the ponds are on your left. The 1st pond had tons of White-cheeked geese, Mallard, Widgeon, Shoveler, and 6

[cobirds] Prospect Ponds Larimer County Dec. 3

I tried to post earlier but couldn't remember the requirements for posting. At about 11am this morning we found a 1st year Sandhill Crane in the cow pasture next to prospect ponds. We missed the Greater White-fronted by several minutes apparently. Scope photos on the CFO Facebook page. Megan

[cobirds] Re: Long-tailed Duck, Windsor Lake

Long-tailed still here as of 2PM ... crappy, long distance photos here: - http://coloradobirder.ning.com/photo/albums/long-tailed-duck Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn http://coloradobirder.ning.com/ Mobile: http://coloradobirder.ning.com/m On Wednesday, December 3, 2014 11:24:40 AM UTC-7,

[cobirds] Possible Coopers Hawk, SE Aurora, Arapahoe Co

We watched this hawk in our bird bath this morning, request ID help. The link below is a three minute video. Thank you. Jean Stevenson, Aurora CO https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=72645B35B3130535!966authkey=!AAhwsFd-V0K7Uxwithint=video%2cm4v -- You received this message because you

[cobirds] 80+ Rosy-Finches at Pueblo Reservoir 12/03!!

Clif and Pearle found and photographed at least 80 rosy-finches coming to drink early this afternoon, at the pool, below Pueblo Reservoir dam, south of the Arkansas River.  Margie Joy and I were able to see 12, which flew off to parts unknown around 3pm.  Hopefully they will come back tomorrow

[cobirds] Sharp Point Pond by feedlot, Fort Collins (Larimer) on 12/3

At the pond e of Sharp Point just south of Prospect in Fort Collins (Larimer) at 3:30 were three Greater White-fronted Geese (2a, 1i) and the Snow X Cackling Goose hybrid plus a few thousand White-cheeked Geese, plus assorted common dabbling ducks (and a few American Coots). I checked the

[cobirds] Vega Gull pics online (Larimer)

For those of you who abhor gulls, press delete now. For those of you interested in knowing more about the gull Ken and I observed this morning which I labeled Vega Gull, you can check out my lousy digiscoped photos online at http://www.pbase.com/quetzal/mysterygullaj . Since I have not been

[cobirds] Weld/Larimer wanderings

In an effort to get some kind of itinerary together for a museum trip next week, I decided to go racing around northern Colorado in my usual aimless and pointless manner. I picked up a few birds of interest along the way, so I though I'd pass along a few. I menitoned the long-tailed duck

[cobirds] Working Park County Dec 2

I went back to Park County on Tuesday Dec 2 to see what I could find, and also because as of Dec 1 there were no complete eBird checklists ever submitted for the county in the first week of December. Now there will be a bunch, once I submit my many lists from Tuesday. This spotlights an

[cobirds] White-throated Sparrow--Red Rocks/Jeffco

This morning, there was a White-throated Sparrow at feeders at Red Rocks Trading Post. This tan-morphed bird was seen along with the adult Golden-crowned Sparrow, 5 Cassin's Finches, 10 Pine Siskens, and all the other regulars Red Rock birds. I did not see the Fox Sparrow or Harris's Sparrow.

[cobirds] Prairie Falcons-Colorado Springs and Pueblo County

On Monday I spotted a Prairie Falcon on H87 not far south of Academy Blvd. And today I spotted one on my way to Pueblo in Pueblo County on H96 east of Custer County. Strange how coincidence happens-I hadn't seen a Prairie Falcon in Colorado all year. I did get photos of the Pueblo County falcon