Here is a list of sighting reported in CO to iNaturalist:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=34_id=18204
Pam Piombino
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 10:52 AM 'Carol Blackard' via Colorado Birds <
cobirds@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> My husband and I always enjoyed a few days at Bonnie
My husband and I always enjoyed a few days at Bonnie Lake State Park before it
was drained. We went every year in August mainly to see the Red-headed
Woodpeckers, both mature and immature, that had used the old dying cottonwoods
in the north side of the lake.
Juvenile Swainson Hawks were
Submitted on behalf of Andy Goris, who lives in the foothills southwest of
Fort Collins. He has had red-headed woodpeckers nesting in his
neighborhood for the last couple of years, and provides the following
history about them -
"2019: Saw a single Red-headed woodpecker eating insects in our
On Saturday in Young Gulch, Poudre Canyon, two of us observed two red-headed
woodpeckers chasing each other in some kind of courtship display. Occasionally
they would land in a tall dead ponderosa. This was about noon, between 2.8 and
3 miles from the parking lot. They were also harassing
Right now watching a pair of Red-headed Woodpeckers excavating a cavity in
a prominent standing dead tree (V-shaped) roughly two- thirds of the way
south from 104th where the 2-track finishes the initial big bend to the
southeast. Thee
Tree is 25 yards from the trail; cavity faces east about 25
Just got back from a bike ride out to Heil Ranch where I found 2 juvenile
Red-headed Woodpeckers by the old ranch buildings right by the cattle guard. I
watched them for about 1 1/2 hrs hoping to see an adult or two, but none showed
up. They were in trees, on posts, and on utility posts on
