Re: [cobirds] Introducing Cole Sage

Welcome! Denver Audubon has a newish youth/ teen birding club that has regular trips around the front range. So far we've gone to the Barr Lake bird banding station, attended the Denver Christmas bird count, and most recently a duck trip to south Platte park. I copied Kate, the community outreach

[cobirds] Introducing Cole Sage

HI Cole Sage is a newer birder to our community. Cole is 16, very thoughtful, enthusiastic, and best of all is hooked on birding. Cole already has an interesting birding blog about some of the birds seen on his trips: http://birdsonthewing.com/ . Bob Righter

[cobirds] Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch - Golden - Jeffco

Birders, I have 2 GCRF (1 Hepburn's) at the feeder on my porch. Birder's are welcome. If they start showing up in the back yard, I'll let you know. 314 Defrance Ct, Golden, CO 80401 -- Ira Sanders Golden, CO "My mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a

[cobirds] Variation

The cautionary notes about variation among gulls at Warren Lake and the difficulty of ID'ing every one have been great! Thanks for all of them! Let's have more. Upon reflection could it be that a big part of the problem (my problem too) is "how we learned to ID birds" when we were first bit by

[cobirds] Re: Cautions on Gull Identification

In other words, we shouldn't be so gullible... On Monday, February 3, 2020 at 6:07:19 PM UTC-7, David Tønnessen wrote: > > The last several days have seen my eBird rare bird alerts blown up by > reports of "Slaty-backed Gull" with photos of anything from Iceland > Thayer's Gull to the

[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Date: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 Email: r...@cobirds.org Compiler: Patrick O’Driscoll, patodr...@gmail.com 303-885-6955 __ Birders have been helpful by reporting updates to COBIRDS. Thanks! CAPITAL LETTERS denote very rare species, as listed by the

[cobirds] Variation

Hi: I’m not necessary a “Guller” but I am a believer in variation. There is probably more variation within a species than we like to believe. Darwin was constantly confused by variation and I think that theme is still with us today particularly obvious within the Large-white-Headed Gull