Dinosaur Ridge - Bird Conservancy of the Rockies
Colorado, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Apr 08, 2017
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With Linda Hodges this AM, we had White-throated Sparrow at feeders at Bear
Creek Nature Center. Not sure if same indiv from Jan or so, but it's in
breeding plumage now.
Also hummingbirds today, and Osprey flying up Bear Creek 2 days ago.
Steve Getty
Colorado Springs
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This evening, at about 5:30 pm, while I was waiting for my wife to get off
work, I heard the unmistakable sound of a Broad-tailed Hummingbird as it
flew over my location.
I was parked just west of the intersection of Barnes and Austin Bluffs.
Get ready, the hummingbirds are coming!
Yes! I love
Apologies, but upon further review . . . the photos show this to be not the
male yellow-bellied sapsucker seen in exactly the same place on April 1 (in
fact, the same tree at one point), but rather a red-naped sapsucker.
The double row of vertical white lines on the back is distinctive (vs.
Correction: I read this in Sibley’s about Say’s Phoebe: “Uncommon in
expansive open areas such as prairies, tundra, farmland, and playing
fields.” That’s where I have seen them in the past, *one at a time*;
however, I neglected to read Sibley’s next sentence: “In summer associated
with
Correction: I read this in Sibley’s about Say’s Phoebe: “Uncommon in
expansive open areas such as prairies, tundra, farmland, and playing
fields.” That’s where I have seen them in the past, *one at a time*, all
alone; however, I neglected to read Sibley’s next sentence: “In summer
associated
Yellow-bellied sapsucker in pInes west of tennis courts, now
Patrick O'Driscoll
Denver County
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I was down at Marshall Marsh this morning, and saw several tree swallows.
I like this time of year, it is nice enough to get out without a jacket,
and you can see the birds because the leaves haven't come out yet.
Good birdng -
Jeff Parks
Boulder
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At 11 am today John Breitsch found a Least Sandpiper for our DFO field trip
group. It was on the east shoreline of the small playa along the Woodland
Trail. No other shorebirds were present at the Arsenal except 2 Avocets near
the entrance road. It showed the bright yellow legs and extensive
My FOS *Broad-tailed Hummingbird* showed up in my Ken Caryl Valley yard
this morning. This is my 4th spring there, and my three prior arrivals were
April 12, April 8 and April 13, so not too different from those prior
years. A *Wilson's Snipe* was at Massey Draw below my home on 4/6, almost
two
I am looking to buy a new spotting scope and want to look at them. I can
not find a local dealer for Leica scopes. If anyone knows of a store that
carries them, please contact me.
Norm Erthal
Arvada, CO
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Good morning!
Had my first of season barn swallows at the cherryvale open space office in
Boulder this morning. Yay spring!
Good birding,
Laura Steadman
Boulder
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Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail:RBA AT cobirds.org
Date: April 8, 2017
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, April 8 sponsored by Denver
Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.
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