Re: [cobirds] Re: Addenbrooke Park "Trumpeter Swans" are DECOYS! (Jefferson)

A couple of years ago there was a great egret being reported on a pond in north Jeffco- maybe up on Indiana or MacIntyre? Anyway, I went by for a look, and the egret, which was oddly immobile, proved to be a fairly convincing statue. It was not hard to understand how it could fool an observer,

Re: [cobirds] Tamarack

There is a program underway to remove all the Russian olives at Jackson SP. I am not biologically well-informed enough to know if this is an overall good idea, and I suppose we won’t know until we see the finished product. I do know, however, that they began the project by obliterating my

Re: [cobirds] Re: Western Tanager invasion, Boulder

In our Green Mountain Lakewood yard, we have had tanagers for eleven straight days. Yesterday was the max with six- four males of various ages, and two females. They were joined by nine orioles and three lazuli buntings, along with the “usual suspects” of robins, blue jays, magpies, spotted

[cobirds] RFI Red Rocks barn owls

Could someone please give me the location for the barn owls at Red Rocks? I have been on the road for most of the past month and have seen the posts, but have never seen a location. Reply off-list if you wish. I’d like to see those birds! Norm Lewis Lakewood Sent from my iPad -- You

Re: [cobirds] Golden-crowned Warbler (Cheyenne)

I was one of the merry band of miscreants who joined Dave for good looks at the warbler. What a great find! And as Dave mentioned, what are the odds? One has to to wonder how many “mega’s” wander into and out of Colorado without ever being detected. On a side note- after observing three or

Re: [cobirds] Wheat Ridge parking lot Breakin (Jeffco)

On a related note, while we were on an overnight trip up to Craig to see grouse, one of our group had her car stolen from the park and ride lot at 56th and Wadsworth. The developing lesson here seems to be that turning your back on anything these days risks having it stolen. Norm Lewis

Re: [cobirds] Coors Ponds security (Jefferson) No RNGR or LTDU

Several years ago (before I realized that it was controlled by a hunting club) I was headed up the dam at Riverside Reservoir (out near Jackson, in the middle of nowhere, for those who might not be familiar) when a guy roared up in a beat up pickup and asked what I was doing. I attempted to

[cobirds] Sapsucker guideline

This is just an FYI that probably goes without saying, but.when looking for the sapsucker, please do not go beyond the vicinity of the curbs. Everything beyond that is private property. When we were viewing this bird this afternoon, we happened to be joined by neighbor Carol, a property

[cobirds] Snowy owl

Has anyone seen the owl this morning? Norm Lewis Lakewood Sent from my iPad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[cobirds] EBird: Fwd: Adding media- the capability seems to have disappeared

For any of you who may be trying unsuccessfully to add media to your sightings, here is the explanation from Cornell. Being a card-carrying technoidiot, I assumed that I was doing something wrong. Apparently they are having issues. Norm Lewis Lakewood Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded

[cobirds] Eastern plains yesterday

I decided to launch November with a jaunt out to Prewitt/Jackson to see what might be about. For the most part the birding was pretty good though it was mostly the usual suspects. I had one spot that I thought would be worth passing along, for those who still have an unslaked thirst for

Re: [cobirds] Re: BRONZED COWBIRD photographed in Lamar by Jill White Smith

I live in Lakewood, about a mile from the Carters. During the period when the cowbird was appearing in the Carters' yard, I looked out the window one morning and saw it at my feeders. So, among the interesting yard birds I have had over the years (orchard oriole, Carolina wren, summer tanager,

Re: [cobirds] Burrowing Owls and security guards, Adams county

I was the other birder that the stupendously self-important "officer" (or whatever she was- a wannabe of some sort) attempted to chase off. I chose not to be chased. When she said, "you need to move along" (with sort of the same intonation one would use on a ten-year-old potential miscreant,

Re: [cobirds] Re: Canda Goose or Cackling Goose/Snow Goose hybrid?

"Was was"? I of course meant to say "the one I saw was"..I have photos (on my other computer, of course) that show a bird virtually identical to yours. Norm Sent from my iPad > On Jan 3, 2017, at 9:30 PM, quetza...@comcast.net wrote: > > Dark phase Ross's Goose (which is extremely rare)

Re: [cobirds] Re: Canda Goose or Cackling Goose/Snow Goose hybrid?

I had a virtually identical goose at Aurora Reservoir, and based on very white, round head, short stubby bill with no trace of "grin patch", and size, I was calling it a Ross's x cackling. The one I was was mingling with cacklers and was almost exactly the same size. Norm Lewis Lakewood Sent

[cobirds] Weld/Morgan yesterday

Yesterday I made loop through Weld and Morgan Counties with an emphasis on the playas of the area. Because of potential high temps I got an early start, hitting the prairie dog town at Weld 100/99 (as mentioned in a post by Gary Lefko) around 6:00, and it didn't disappoint. First, the dip: in

Re: [cobirds] status of birds so far in the food web of the NCAA Tourney

Excellent analysis! As predicted, the Deadhawks are on their way home. Norm Lewis Lakewood Sent from my iPad > On Mar 19, 2016, at 11:03 AM, DAVID A LEATHERMAN wrote: > > By my calculations, so far birds are 4 for 7 in the survive-and-advance food > web world of the

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] NOTE: NOT a current sighting- RFI past blackburnian warbler

Cobirders- several years ago, a blackburnian warbler lingered for a couple of days at Welchester Tree Park in Lakewood. If anyone has a record of this sighting, could you please contact me off-list? I have not been able to find it in eBird or Colorado records, though my search skills are

[cobirds] Godwits at Chatfield

To supplement the migrants noted by David and Mark, I stopped by the Chatfield unit of the Botanic Gardens and got one (but not both) of the previously reported eastern phoebes. A quick swing through Chatfield yielded quite a number of nicely turned-out yellow-rumps, but the most notable

Re: [cobirds] High Plains Snow [Goose] Festival, Feb. 19-23

In reading Ted's excellent post about the festival (which I have never attended; I have to get down there one of these years), I was as struck by the weather references as the birds/butterflies/critters. It reminded me of an experience I had down there last early spring. I had a small group out

[cobirds] Jeffco mythical warbler.....confirmed

OK, you're off the hook, the lot of you. I was convinced that you had created a gigantic conspiracy involving phony eBird records, fake Cobirds reports, photos taken in Pennsylvania in June, etc., etc.all for the purpose of keeping me looking for an obviously non-existent Pine Warbler at