which
allows ID of the various types and ages of waders on the island (and kites?)
could be very effective, and maybe even lead to proper behavior involving
litter and dog waste.
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The Owl People still have their big cameras and are no doubt woefully bored
until next spring.
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Phoenix, Vesper Sparrow.
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In my post this morning about the Mt. Margaret Trail, I incorrectly identified
the Red Feather Lakes Road. It is Larimer CR74E. Sorry.
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, but they could be in the area]
Total of 42 species
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to the nest
while she waits. She can't know (can she?), but the cemetery is a lot safer
place for LIFE at present than the foothills 5-20 miles to the west.
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Brenda asked me to post the following to COBIRDS:
Has anyone had experience with bluebirds showing neurological damage? Just
last weekend, for the 4th time in about 6 years, I came across a bluebird
showing neurological damage (unable to stand, wings spread, falling forward on
its face).
of 26 species (with notable misses being Eurasian Collared-Dove, Mourning
Dove, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Common Grackle, and Great Horned Owl).
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some littering heads?
Lamar Community College (Prowers) on 7June: pretty quiet, pretty windy, pretty
dry. Northern Cardinal fledgling and at least 2 Black-chinned Hummingbirds
were the highlights.
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ago, for the first time ever, it refused, preferring
instead some rough-looking corn on the cob provided by its owner.)
Total of 36 species, just 2 shy of the all-time high (conceivable misses today
were Red-tailed Hawk, Common Nighthawk, Cooper's Hawk, and Black-billed Magpie)
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male American Redstart feeding at length in a honeylocust (no doubt on
leafhoppers and plant bugs). Last one I had seen at Grandview was 24 years ago!
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essentially nonexistent.
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about figuring out the changing menus
and actual selections of 490+ species over long time spans in the varied
habitats that constitute our state.
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PS I have to relate what I saw a Common Raven eat day before yesterday near
the entrance to Colorado National
in appropriate
shrub/small tree habitats during the day. Chipping Sparrows evident but not
abundant. Few Brewer's Sparrows. No Clay-coloreds.
Oil and gas trucks fairly common to common.
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No warblers, vireos, empids, thrushes, orioles, or grosbeaks.
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Nothing unusual at Last Chance today on the way home.
I have never seen so many Red Admiral butterflies (larval food plant being
nettles) as have been active all along the eastern plains in the last week.
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Elm seed crop this spring)
Dark-eyed Juncos (gone up the hill)
Brown Creepers (gone up the hill)
no kinglets yet
no swallows overhead
*BNA confirms the rapid growth of nestling GHOs. From their birth weight to
the age of 25 days, they increase by a factor of 28! Good grief!
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its mission). Per cemetery rules, this clearly
appears to be a case of first-degree desecration.
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domestic and feral dogs, foxes, and coyote,
which probably isn't good for rabbits of any kind.
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When birdwatching in rural areas
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turning
on the TV to watch 5 hours of basketball gladiators.]
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with a dirtier than normal back, and it being the same
of different individual. Syrapicaphiles unite! Larophiles can't have all the
fun with exasperating IDs.
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, especially A. elm.
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, in one of the yards around the old Rooney Ranch rock buildings, we
observed a male Spotted Towhee.
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a concerted effort to search for
them this winter.
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On the drive home in upper Poudre Canyon Ken spotted an Ermine in its
white-with-black-tipped-tail coat run across SR14.
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of the ridge where it
was sitting today.
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PS - on my way home, I stopped at the DOW parking lot on Larimer CR64 just east
of CR3 described recently by Gary Lefko. Two Short-eared Owls started working
the rough grass and shrubland north of the parking lot at 5:35pm
of the lake off Mulberry Street)
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Collins Audubon Chapter but anyone
would be welcome. I should mention a similar presentation will be given to DFO
at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science on March 26th.
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was seen with a large, wriggling nightcrawler. Do
earthworms pack little flasks of peppermint schnapps?
Lastly, I believe a small group of siskins were engaged in early courtship
activity.
Total of 21 species.
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of Rocky Ford).
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there. They
wouldn't be living out there if they liked lots of people, especially lots of
people doing crazy things that are either flat illegal or that they don't
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Woodpecker doing territorial drumming
and was surprised to see it was a female. But I guess that is common behavior
for both sexes.
No crossbills of any kind, a few Pine Siskins, no redpolls, no Yellow-bellied
Sapsucker.
Total of 22 species.
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Total of 2 buteos on the PNG (1 Ferruginous, 1 Rough-legged) - this seems like
a pathetic total
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Raven (1 flyover)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (10+)
Mountain Chickadee (3+)
Total of 20 spp.
Have not seen the odd Red Crossbill (Type 4?) since 14December.
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improved from recent years.
Hopefully the loons will stick around for the CBC.
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. Something going on foodwise on that gravel bar. I
should mention, while I was there, the yellowlegs flew off silently (seems like
most Greaters give their characteristic tew-tew-tew upon takeoff) over the
Frontage Road to the west. It very well could return, however.
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, Steve.
After that, I returned to the cemetery about 3pm and heard, then saw, the
crossbill T-d up in a spruce, briefly. So, it may still be there tomorrow.
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Goose (I think, 1 white a long ways off east of the stack with
Canada/Cackling Geese)
Snow Goose (1 blue)
Bald Eagle (1 adult)
Horned Grebe (15+)
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with white. The bird shows considerable white along the
flanks at the water line. At no time does the bird appear blackish, as does
the much bigger, basic Common Loon also present.
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Other birds seen today:
Merlin
Pine Siskin (at least 25 in and over the cemetery)
Cooper's Hawk
Total of 25 species
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and
biggish pines. As the Huffstaters and others have reported, it likes the
heated waterbath in the yard north of Buzz's (3896 S. Idalia, bird and birder
friendly owner's name is Myra Meverden). Food, water, and cover - what else
could a bird want?
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yard know about the bird and are reservedly OK with visitors. OF
COURSE, visitors should be respectful of all concerned in this neighborhood,
not go in any backyards, not block the alley, or not block access to parking
from the alley by these neighbors to the north.
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and photographed this bird well.
We left around 12:30, with the bird swimming mostly in the north half of the
reservoir.
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A white-out of geese. We didn't spend a lot of time sorting thru waterfowl
on the main body of water. Very cold and windy, we were tired.
Little Jumbo:
White-fronted Goose (at least 3)
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took this as a good sign of their wild condition, but their justified wariness
is also probably the reason for their disappearance.
If anyone sees the Brants tomorrow, please post this fact. Thanks.
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exotic) came from but they now are populating and
noticeably spreading within the Golden Currant thicket that forms the Plains
Cottonwood understory at the north end. I don't know if either of these plants
has any utility to birds but it will be interesting to watch.
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), Song Sparrow
(1), Wilson's Warbler (1), Orange-crowned Warbler (1), Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
(heard)and Ruby-crowned Kinglet (2). Great fun.
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and the scolding note of Fox Squirrel, and from
long distance this squirrel sound can be VERY similar to Red-bellied Woodpecker.
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. I'm kidding, of course, but short of capturing them
going in or out of chimneys/roost trees, how do researchers obtain Chaetura
swifts to measure, band, and ID?
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15-20 foot tall birch
trees. Sorry for any confusion.
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Herring Gull (1 for sure, maybe 2)
Bald Eagle (1 adult)
Hairy Woodpecker (1 male, mountain)
Total of 32 bird species
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. Very cool, and we think those tiny fish, probably very young Gizzard
Shad (as correctly suggested by Dick Pratt), is the explanation for the grebe
numbers (which we estimated to be in the several hundreds).
Total of 38 species at Timnath Reservoir.
Total for the day: 60 species
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, and a few Sage Thrashers seen in other
places. Does it seem like there are more Sage Thrashers on the plains than
would be considered normal?
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, then dipping violently to get a Band-winged Meadowhawk that was,
in turn, hunting flying insects off the peony seedheads. To get the picture,
remember the line by Tony Joe White in Poke Salad Annie that goes, Gator got
your granny, chomp, chomp, chomp.
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I suspect conspicuous, treetop hunters like kingbirds and Olive-sideds worry
about kestrels and maybe corvids, but who'd guess a nuthatch weighing a third
of an ounce would present an issue?
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with absolutely no
fear of thorns; pelecinid wasps (check them out on-line) flying everywhere; a
virtual explosion of several dragonfly species hunting off the shrubs and
cruising the airspace. Lots more, but in the spirit of a bird
listserv.
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. One notable difference in this tally from that of 2010 is the
absence of the White-winged Crossbills. The current concept for the book I
have threatened to write about LIFE in the cemetery involves not only
documenting the cycle of events, but comparing these two back-to-back years.
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person. Supposedly
it was taken to DOW, but I'm not sure what was determined.
Total of 26 species (only likely miss was Turkey Vulture)
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-capped Chickadees. Probably many other birds
are also taking advantage.
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? Could be all of these. And it could be a strange,
keep-your-eyes-open summer in Colorado.
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, namely fire.
See also, Chris Blakeslee's interesting, excellent recent reports and
predictions on woodpeckers, including Red-headed, responding to borers in the
Hayman Burn area.
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on the telephone wires near a box first shown to me by Steve Messick of
Greeley. This would have been about 4.5 to 5 miles east of 27E.
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Sparrows
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for the installation of more signs and things to dry
out
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Per Ira's request, albeit at the end of the day. I just got home.
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From: Ira
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 7:03 PM
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Subject: Canada Warbled - Tempel Grove - Bent Co
Dave,
Could you please post this to Cobirds for me? I changed my email and have had
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unknown insects, also seen in American Elm, Green
Ash (probably after the aforementioned green fruitworms), Lilac, Douglas-fir,
and Colorado Blue Spruce. One was also on the road getting an earthworm.)
Total of 38 species (ties my all-time best for the cemetery)
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I walked the Poudre River bike trail and social trails n of Prospect on the w
side of the river today (5/28) in Fort Collins (Larimer). Highlights included:
RED-SHOULDERED HAWK (eastern juvenile) - not seen all that well, but I did see
it gliding very low thru a flooded woodland area.
(1) in Western Hackberry
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of the head appears dark
(eastern). My understanding is that most of the East Slope records of Purple
Martin are probably eastern birds.
My apologies for the delay in posting this.
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I'd
guess as being on their menu.
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previously defined as the Lamar area
(roughly 15mile x 15mile area centered on downtown. This artificially-defined
(by me) area includes Thurston Reservoir, does NOT include Tempel Grove or Nee
Noshe Reservoir.
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This spring's crop (2 or 3) of Red Fox pups appeared above the front door to
their below-ground culvert home for perhaps their first time today.
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, perhaps influenced
by the heavy cloud cover, rain, and maybe even city lights. BNA seems to
imply vocalization in flight at night is known for these birds, although
knowledge of their migration, all aspects, is somewhat sketchy.
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yet another southwestern species is expanding its range northward isn't.
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Colorado Springs, the Wet Mountains, and the east
slope of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains (as well as several areas in the
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of MMs.
[The wintering, joined-at-the-hip duo of Brown Creepers and Golden-crowned
Kinglets appears to have left for higher elevation]
Total of 26 species (tied with 4/8 for best species total of 2011)
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Subject: Re: [cobirds] Re: Douglas County American Three-toed Woodpecker
Steve, Andy, et al,
I think you guys are both right. I haven't been in that area in several years,
but it (Jarre Canyon
at the west
end of Section H, babies still not viewable under her)
Red-tailed Hawk (1 lt., 1 dark)
Lesser Goldfinch (singing without gusto at the entrance)
Total of 21 species
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of borers would usually require deeper excavation of the outer rings of wood
and be indicated by fairly widely-spaced gouges).
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(south of the greenhouse complex).
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by Dr. Cringan
yesterday.
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Bluebirds seen at various locations in Poudre Canyon , and just
southeast of Walden Reservoir.
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). Today it was in the 4th.
Also present were the two Golden-crowned Kinglets, both adult Great Horned
Owls, and two Red Fox. Total of 17 bird species.
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down on silver maple flower buds, and then clipping the
branch piece they just worked over. Most of the females would appear to be
inside cavities gestating.
I would call this a time of tortoise change - slow but steady.
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as any for these secretive birds (map of the cemetery is posted just
west of the entrance office (i.e., between the office and the ditch bridge) at
the west end of Mountain Avenue).
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the adult male).
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less than a few degrees below zero. Male squirrel chasing
of female squirrels, accompanied by the standard vocal protest from the gender
being chased, was quite evident today at Grandview.
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and Downy Woodpecker (both of which poach from
the sapsucker's wells), both White-breasted and Red-breasted Nuthatches,
American Robin, Dark-eyed Junco, American Goldfinch, and Eurasian
Collared-Dove.
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Nuthatches, and both chickadees. The Great Horned Owl female in not on the
elm crotch nest (yet).
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Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 1:32 PM
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Subject: Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at Grandview Cemetery, Fort Collins (Larimer)
on 26Jan2011
Late this morning I heard (pecking) and then saw a very drab juvenile (female?)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker in Grandview
were 1 American Dipper (at the spillway due west
of the parking lot), 11 Common Goldeneyes, Mallards, and a flock of 9 Cedar
Waxwings.
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Goldeneyes. The keys
to this situation would appear to be: 1) open water, and 2) abundant crayfish
(probably Orconectes sp.). Both types of duck were diving in the shallows and
scoring almost every time. Thanks to Aran for his find and report.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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ago was very nearby (next pond south, presently frozen). On occasion
Bald Eagles also like to give the waterfowl a death stare here.]
Total of 35 spp.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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Great Horned Owl
Ring-billed Gull
Downy Woodpecker
Black-billed Magpie
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mountain Chickadee
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Mallard
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Fort Collins
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