Today Tom Whitten and I saw Philadelphia Vireos at Barr Lake in Adams
County, in two different locations.
First one was on the trail that runs from the banding station east then
north, on the west side of the small pond just off of the boardwalk to the
viewing blind. A bright bird, tucked in
Hey all,
The Bird Conservancy of the Rockies banding Station at Chico Basin Ranch has
wrapped up its first week of banding and we've had some exciting captures. The
cold front early in the week brought some good birds, but lately, with the warm
weather, things have generally tapered off later
Hi Ted,
Thanks for sharing the NAB article. I'm curious if the heavy smoke that
blanketed much of the northern Rockies might be partly or wholly to blame?
Are you aware of other instances where heavy smoke, without regional fires,
has generated species movement akin to the effects of other large
Slow, hot and weird morning. There was a Chickadee convention going on in
the area around the front nets as we made our first run - we caught 8 (1
new, 6 banded earlier this year, 1 banded last year) and there were still
many in the willows chickadee-ing. We also caught a Brown Creeper (an
At 11:30 today, there were still two Caspian Terns on the sand spit to the
north
at Timnath Reservoir. They flew in as I was scanning the shore where the
Gulls
and Pelicans and Cormorants roost.
Joe Mammoser
Fort Collins
Larimer County
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Hey, everybody. Here's coverage at The ABA Blog of the apparent ongoing
irruption of montane bird species out onto the plains:
http://blog.aba.org/2017/09/happening-now-mountain-birds-on-the-move-but-how-extensively.html
Rank-and-file birders can contribute importantly to our understanding of
