Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: September 25, 2015
This is the Rare Bird Alert, Saturay, September 26 sponsored by Denver Field
Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species).
Green Heron (Park)
Red Phalarope
Leisurely fall banding continues. For the first time since August 31,
another species besides Wilson's Warbler was the most frequently caught -
on the 31st it was House Wrens; today it was Yellow-rumped Warblers,
Chipping Sparrows and Juncos. Not a lot of birds today, but we had a great
Just flushed and had great looks at a non-breeding type bobolink near
the point on the S. side of Sloan's Lake.
Other birds of note were :
california gull
bushtit (x15)
common nighthawk
Checklist:
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S25195199
Matthew Baker
Denver, CO
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Hi Everyone,
Today 9/26 I thought I'd have a look at Last Chance, since nobody's been
posting from there lately. The ground cover is getting plenty thick, but
there are still good views of the more southerly pond. There were lots of
Pink-sided Juncos, some Chipping Sparrows, several American
Just a heads-up that yesterday at Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins I noticed
the beginning of adult psyllid emergence from galls on the leaves of hackberry.
There are two types, blistergall psyllids and nipplegall psyllids. The ones I
saw flying about (look like tiny gnats when backlit)
