[cobirds] Roosting Crows

Hi COBirders, Just adding to the thread … When I taught at Air Academy HS I used to regularly see large flights of crows leaving the canyons on the West side of the Academy, heading towards town. Usually this was early morning, in the winter months. Never saw a roost, but hundreds of crows

[cobirds] Canyon Wrens responses

Thanks for the interesting facts about Canyon Wrens at Garden of the Gods and wrens in general. I will keep them in mind when we walk at Garden of the Gods in the winter for sure! Good birding! Cecile Lee Elbert, CO -- You received this message

[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 5 November 2015

Compiler: Joyce Takamine e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org Date: November 5, 2015 This is the Rare Bird Alert, Thursday, November 5 sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies. Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species). Tundra

Re: [cobirds] Kestrel falcon, Lakewood

This time of year many of the crows in Colorado Springs seem to gather in large groups and fly in and out of some congregational roosting spot west of town somewhere. People see them flying east in the early morning and west in evening. And there seem to be some smaller groups that may have

Re: [cobirds] Sleeping birds thread

Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 4, 2015, at 11:02 PM, DAVID A LEATHERMAN wrote: > > Mary et al, > A few years ago I was told Kevin Cook along the Poudre River in Fort Collins > in early winter discovered multiple stub-tailed wrens (not sure whether they > were Winter or

Re: [cobirds] Sleeping birds thread

Oops, sorry about the previous post. Still learning to use this phone which is way smarter than I am. Sigh. Interesting thread, and one of the reasons I enjoy CoBirds, although I don't post much. I've been thinking about the White-throated Swifts I have been watching and that Brandon posted

Re: [cobirds] Surf Scoter---Bear Creek Lake Park/Jeffco

Nina Routh, Toni Rautus, Paul Slingsby and I spent the day visiting nearby birding sites yesterday, and stop #1 was South Platte Res., which had an acute lack of scoters. It's a good bet that your BCLP birds were the same two. As a side note, we decided to pop up to Genesee to see if the

[cobirds] Species list back at 499

I jumped the gun. IOC has split Fox Sparrow 4 ways, but Clements has not. Sooty, Red, Slate-colored, and Thick-billed. I have been updating my taxonomies on Birders Diary and have been flipping back and forth from Clements to IOC and found the Fox Sparrow split, but forgot that it was just IOC.

Re: [cobirds] downloading birdsongs or calls to Iphone for ringtones

A word about this topic as an appropriate use of COBirds...while I don't think it is specifically at odds with any of the directives of the rules of the COBirds list, its seems borderline to me to use the list for a discussion of ring tones. I suggest any further discussion be taken off list.

[cobirds] downloading birdsongs or calls to Iphone for ringtones

Hi folks-- There may have been a thread about this in the past but I'm just now paying attention: Is there a good way to get unusual and COMPLETE birdsongs on one's phone for ringtones? The reviews of the Istore apps are terrible ("nothing but backyard birds; songs very incomplete," etc).

RE: [cobirds] Surf Scoter---Bear Creek Lake Park/Jeffco

In reply to Mark's question, no two Surf Scoter are not still present on South Platte Reservoir. However, one was still there this morning and it has (finally!) moved across the imaginary line into Jefferson County. Doug Kibbe Littleton Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 00:43:53 + From:

[cobirds] Jeffco Birding

Today, I had the day to see if anything moved in with the storm. Here are the spots that I checked out: BEAR CREEK LAKE PARK(Pelican Point)--water level dropping by the day 5 Greater Yellowlegs 20 Western Grebes NO SURF SCOTERS(back to South Platte Res?) RED ROCKS NO GOLDEN-CROWNED

Re: [cobirds] Re: Roosting Crows

I wonder if the crows that hang around Cheesman Park scatter in smaller groups to roost in the evenings. There are a dozen or so that fly into a big tree near 13th and Steele as the sun sets every day. Could they be a family group? Nan Campbell Sent from my iPod. On Nov 5, 2015, at 1:27 PM,

[cobirds] Estes Park Matthews Reeves bird sanctuary

Hello allDid not find any common Redpolls. did have a bright individual pine Warbler fly into the Willows at the small pond. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To

[cobirds] Re: Roosting Crows

Over the past week, several dozen crows have been gathering at the Governor's Mansion in central Denver at dusk, though I haven't confirmed that they roost there overnight. A small number -- fewer than a dozen -- hang around the adjacent Governor's Park during the day. On blustery afternoons,

RE: [cobirds] Re: Roosting Crows

Somewhat related to the thread of bird sleep and roosting crows, does anyone know if crowing roosters pay attention to the autumn time change? Do they just fall back in the straw and wait an hour, crow at the same time as they had been, or what? Dave Leatherman Fort Collins Date: Thu, 5 Nov

RE: [cobirds] Re: Roosting Crows

Here are some American Crow experiences that I have had over the years in Boulder County. Ted Floyd holds the Boulder County eBird high count record at 925 on 10/23/13. Three years ago while doing the Boulder CBC at Valmont Reservoir with John Vanderpoel, we observed a flock (murder?) of black

Re: [cobirds] Re: Roosting Crows

Crow roosts are mostly large scale affairs, and they can be hard to find because the crows often stage in varied spots, and some staging areas may not be very close to the actual roost. And crow behavior can be deceptive as the birds may remain at a staging area until well after it begins to get

[cobirds] Species 500 on state list

Fox Sparrow has been split and Colorado has Slate-colored Fox Sparrow and Red Fox Sparrow so we gained a new species. Joyce Takamine Boulder -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

[cobirds] Thayer's Gull at Lake Loveland (Larimer)

Large mudflat has opened on northern shore. Gulls like to spend night there and wait for sunshine in the morning. This morning the usual Ring-bill's were far outnumbered by California's with a couple of Herring's and Bonaparte's, one adult Thayer's and one Lesser Black-back. Irene Fortune,