Compiler: Joe Roller
Date: June 28, 2014
email: rba AT cfobirds.org
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, June 28, sponsored
by the Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.
Alas, the DFO/RMBO answering machine is defunct after many years of
service. If
Hello all,
On Friday June 27 I saw an Upland Sandpiper on the Pawnee National Grassland.
It was along Rd. 69 about half-way between Roads 96 and 104, about a quarter of
a mile south of stop #7 on the birding tour route. It was sitting on a wooden
fence post on the west side of the road, and
The last two summers, my visits to Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins (west
terminus of Mountain Avenue, Larimer County) have focused on Broad-tailed
Hummingbird nests. In summer 2013 I knew of 5 nests. The earliest fledging
from any of these was June 15. The latest fledging was August 15.
Even without a real early start, I managed a few good things on a trip out to
Jumbo Reservoir then down to Phillips County today.
Upland Sandpiper on Logan CR 71 north of US 138 between Proctor and Crook--This
bird was on a fence post (big surprise) but it was right at the side of the
road,
CoBirders,
I led a Boulder Audubon Society field trip today to under-eBirded hotspots
within Boulder County. One of the stops we made was at the St Vrain River
Crossing of 63rd st. We had probably our best luck of the day at this
location. Eastern Phoebe, unIDed empidonax species (too short a
Barb and I recently enjoyed a few days in the Steamboat Springs area,
following tips in the old 1997 ABA book *A Birder’s Guide to Colorado* by
Harold R. Holt. (NOTE: ABA has a spiffy, new edition by CFO’s own Ted Floyd
available here: http://www.buteobooks.com/product/ABAFGCO.html
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