CObirders,
The ABA changed their rules for counting reintroduced indigenous birds on
9/27/14. Populations no longer need to be self-sustaining. They only need to
have successfully hatched young in the wild. This has caused a lot of
discussion on the AZ/NM listserv regarding condors, which are
CObirders,
The $36 fee for Jumbo and Prewitt seems exorbitant, mainly because
you'd evidently still need a habitat stamp for other SWAs. Sounds like
the high fee is simply to discourage non-wildlife activities at
those two areas and may be a good thing overall.
It seems to me the smart
CObirders,
Dave Leatherman found a beautiful female black-throated blue warbler
in company with a Nashville warbler along the Lake Estes Trail this
morning. They were in the small crab apple trees between the trail and
the fence around the utility yard for the power plant. Later they were
CObirders,
After two days of trying, I finally got to see the immature male
orchard oriole first found by Judie Wright yesterday. It was near the
big tube over Fish Creek at its inlet to Lake Estes. The bonus for my
efforts was a female orchard in consort with it today. It's the first
CObirders,
An experienced birder from Louisiana who is visiting Rocky Mountain
National Park asked me to post this message:
I tried to post this from my phone as soon as it happened, but I just
found out it didn't go through. My apologies. Anyway, I had a White-
eyed Vireo this
CObirders,
If you're tempted to come up to Rocky for any of this week's great
birds, you might want to stop at Lake Estes and the Matthews/Reeser
Bird Sanctuary. We're still getting some interesting birds there, as
well.
Today there were a half dozen bobolinks in the Sanctuary, all of
CObirders,
We have a great group of birders in Estes Park. We've all birded L.
Estes and Rocky Mountain National Park a lot over the last 15 years.
You'd think by now we would have found every hot spot. We learned
today that we hadn't.
Julie and I were scouting Sprague Lake, off Bear
CObirders,
Casual birders directed several of us to the river inlet to Lake Estes
today to see two godwits. What we found were two dowitchers along
the lakeshore. They were about 25 feet from the trail in good light
and tired enough from flying in snow to let us study them for as long
as
CObirders,
Julie and I, along with Gary Matthews, got reacquainted with the
yellow-throated warbler today, in its sixth day at Lake Estes. We also
found the northern parula.
We located the yellow-throated in a half-hour by finding the group of
mountain chickadees it likes to hang with. It
CObirders,
The yellow-throated warbler is still at the bird sanctuary at Lake
Estes. It has apparently moved and taken up with a comely American
Redstart. Yesterday afternoon and today, the bird was found on Pine
Point. A trail just east of the pond leads to that area.
I'll quit trying to
CObirders,
Bob Chase found the yellow-throated warbler this morning near where it
was first seen yesterday, along the trail in the bird sanctuary at
Lake Estes. He told us it stayed in the same area all the time he was
watching it.
I guess that gave us an excuse for a second cup of coffee
CObirders,
On a bike ride around Lake Estes today, Julie and I stopped to watch a
small group of warblers in the Matthews/Reeser Bird Sanctuary. Among a
handful of yellow-rumps and one bright male Wilson's warbler was a
gorgeous yellow-throated warbler. A buffy wash on the underparts
CObirders,
An upslope storm in late April ... a formula for birding madness in
Estes Park. The total at Lake Estes for our local group of bird nuts
was 76 species. Some highlights:
Long-eared owl, our second record for the lake, in the bird sanctuary
along the L. Estes Trail.
Marbled
CObirders,
We rounded out our storm birds this morning with a McCown's longspur
spotted by Scott Rashid, the third record for Lake Estes, and a high-
flying solo American white pelican, seen first by Ann Reichhardt, an
early-date record by four days. Vesper sparrows also made their first
14 matches
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