[cobirds] First of the season Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk in Canon City

2015-11-02 Thread SeEttaM .
I spotted a Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk from the MacKenzie Ave end of the Canon City Riverwalk over the week-end. I got two pics which show it's white lorals and cheeks, whitish chest, whitish underside of tail with otherwise blackish feathering that I have uploaded to my Birds and Nature blog

[cobirds] Colorado Christmas Bird Count dates

2015-11-02 Thread 'Brandon K. Percival' via Colorado Birds
Hi all, Christmas Bird Count Compilers got an e-mail from National Audubon today, that their website is open to post dates for Christmas Bird Counts.  As usual the dates are from Monday, 14 Dec to Tuesday, 5 January.   So, the weekends, when many counts will be held this year would be Saturday, 1

[cobirds] late Gray Catbird, Fort Collins (Larimer) on 2Nov

2015-11-02 Thread DAVID A LEATHERMAN
Today, while photographing plants on the grounds of what remains of CSU's Plant Environmental Research Center (PERC) plantings - it is just west of the monstrous, new football stadium building site in the sw corner of the main Fort Collins campus - I had a Gray Catbird. It's late on the cale

[cobirds] 6 Common Loons at Chatfield SP 11/2

2015-11-02 Thread David Suddjian
This morning at Chafield Res. there were 4 *Common Loons* together near the Douglas shoreline on the water between the Old Heronry Overlook and the line of buoys, plus one north of the Marina sand spit, and one more close to the dam tower. 6 Total. Also my first *Common Goldeneye* of the season, 1

[cobirds] Swamp Sparrow - Rocky Mtn Arsenal NWR - Adams County

2015-11-02 Thread JBreitsch - Denver
2 November 2015 0800 Southwest of Lake Ladora; not quite as far south as E 64th/Wildlife Drive, but just north of there. If you take the Ladora Loop trail north of the road (opposite the woodland trail), you follow it around to where it is going east and then turns north. At that corner is som

[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 2 November 2015

2015-11-02 Thread Joyce Takamine
Compiler: Joyce Takamine e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org Date: November 2, 2015 This is the Rare Bird Alert, Monday, November 2 sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies. Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species). Greater Whi