[cobirds] Castle Rock, CO; Douglas County

We have most of our regular summer birds now in Ponderosa/Scrub Oak habitat, but we had two brightly colored, Male Lazuli Buntings at our feeder, which was a special treat somewhat unusual for our area. Cindy Valentine Douglas County Castle Rock, CO -- You received this message because

[cobirds] Bobcat or Lynx Discussion

In response to Ira's discussion on Bobcats vs. Lynx. We live in Douglas County on acreage near Surrey Ridge/Castle Pines. We have a bobcat family we regularly see. One early evening several years ago for several months after that we had a Canadian Lynx which was confirmed by the Division of

[cobirds] Bewick's Wren Winter Wren

We have had several wrens recently that normally we do not have on our land. Several weeks ago we had a Winter Wren who stayed for couple of days. Yesterday we had a Bewick's wren who was hunting bugs under our back porch steps. Cindy Valentine Castle Rock, Colorado Douglas County -- You

[cobirds] Interesting discussion of death of Finches in Ft. Collins

Ann Molson suggested a possible cause of the death of Finches was the community wide spraying of insecticides. Dave Leatherman dismissed insecticides as a cause based on the type of spraying. I would be cautious about dismissing insecticides as the cause. I have never known City Officials/

[cobirds] Hummingbirds in Douglas County

Noticing the posts on Hummingbirds, since early last week this has been the year with the greatest number of hummingbirds we have ever had except no Black-chinned yet. We have broad-tailed all summer; two weeks ago we started seeing calliope. Now we have numerous Rufus, mostly males but some

[cobirds] Douglas County and Bird fall-out with snow storm

Since the snow storm on Wednesday, when our area had a fall-out of hundreds of sparrows (and Robins) including Chipping, White Crowned, Vesper etc., we have had some unusual birds at our feeders. Today similar to Marilyn, we had a flock of Red Crossbills with males females feeding along with all