[cobirds] Weld County Today

I took a rather easy day wandering around the Greely area today. Water it's number were decent and ring-billed gulls were around in very high numbers but many winter species, like Herring Gull were difficult to find. The lower Latham area had thousands of ring-billed gulls between behren's

[cobirds] Brant at Monte Vista Refuge

Deb Callahan reported a Brant at the Monte Vista Refuge today. My wife and I went down there and saw it as well. It is an adult nigricans phase, and can be seen at the most southern turnout on the west side on Hwy 15, as it was feeding in the fields about 60 yards away. One of a few San Luis

[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 16 March 2015

Compiler: Joyce Takamine Date: March 16, 2015 This is the Rare Bird Alert, Monday, March 16, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species). Trumpeter Swan (Delta, Douglas) Tundra Swan

[cobirds] North and Central Weld

Hi all Total of 55 species from Weld 108 Pond (btw WCR 31/33), Dover Reservoir, Weld CR 108/37 pond, CPER HQ, Weld Cr 124 Pond, Weld CR 122 Pond, Weld CR 116/77 Pond, Weld Cr 96/77 Pond, Weld CR 63/Hwy 392 Pond, Lindies Lake, Lonetree Water Treatment Facility, Weld CR 59 Marsh, Loloff

[cobirds] Denver Ravens and Ferruginous Hawk

Yesterday afternoon while cycling home from getting a haircut I heard a raven calling me over Edgewater (25th Ames in JeffCo), and looked up to see 2 birds circling and heading east towards Sloan's Lake. I rode underneath them along the N. side of Sloan's, when 1 bird disappeared. When I got

[cobirds] Say's Phoebe dawn calls, Arista Community, Broomfield County

This morning I woke up to a Say's Phoebe calling from my balcony at about 6:20. It's the first time it's happened this year. Laura Steadman Broomfield -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

[cobirds] from Paul Opler re Boyd Lake e of Loveland (Weld)

Hi, Paul Opler sent me the following message and asked me to share it with COBIRDS: [For the last four days at least there has been an increasingly large number of gulls roosting for the night on the south end of Boyd Lake, then spending the day feeding in weedy alfalfa fields just south of

[cobirds] Chat at Isaak Pond, Longmont

A friend (who is not on cobirds) reported that she heard a chat at Isaak Pond this morning. As she is learning bird calls, she played the call from a recording, and the chat popped out. It would be a FOS for me if I had seen/heard it, so it seemed worth reporting. I will also encourage her

[cobirds] No verification on chat in Longmont

Cobirders- the friend who told me she had a chat at Izaak Walton Pond in Longmont (I did not have the full name when I posted her email the first time) has deleted it from eBird, based on reports that the bird would be over a month early. Here is the link to the pond:

[cobirds] Boreal Owl (Jackson) on 3/15

David Pettee of Newton, MASS, David Wade of Fort Collins, and I (yet another David) heard one Boreal Owl at about milepost 64 on SR14 about a half mile on the Jackson County side of Cameron Pass on the night of 3/15 at about 9:30pm. The bird was south of the highway, sort of at the nw flank of