Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date: November 8, 2015
This is the Rare Bird Alert, Sunday, November 8, sponsored by Denver Field
Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species).
Tundra
Hi:
A pair of Black Scoters swimming amongst a lot of Western Grebes in the
northern half of the Res. The female is distinctive
One juvenile Pacific Loon also in the northern half. The Loon is about the
same body size as the Western Grebes, but structured differently. At just the
right
The Black-bellied Plover was still at Ramah late yesterday (Saturday)
afternoon. It was a bit closer to the parking area
in the north-east part of the reservoir.
In addition to the usual migrant ducks were 2 Common Loons, one Clark's Grebe,
and one Common Merganser.
It is still duck hunting
Just had three redpolls stop in the yard briefly while I was filling the
feeders. Didn't get a good look at them before they flew off but their calls
were distinctive, somewhat reminiscent of pine siskins. Hopefully they will
return.
Arvind Panjabi
5700', across from horsetooth mtn park,
I had a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in my Fort Collins apartment courtyard on
4November and just now heard it again on 8Nov. I believe the succinct call,
dominated by a long "eee" sound is that of the eastern subspecies. With
Kevin's Black-throated Green Warbler the other day and Mark's White-eyed
This morning there were two scoters on Cherry Creek Reservoir. One was a
BLACK SCOTER, and the other was a little trickier. I have an idea of what
it was but don't have time now to type up all the field marks I observed,
plus I am curious to what conclusion others will draw if they go look.
This morning, I had a beautiful White - eyed Vireo in the nw corner of the
campground. Later, seen in the sw corner. I will add photos later.
Mark Chavez
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Since I posted from the field, I thought I should send a follow-up post
regarding Crow Valley. The campground was fairly birdy in both the northwest
and southwest parts of the park. The first bird I saw was the continuing
Red-bellied Woodpecker. In the NW part of the park, I ran into a flock
Team BrachyRAMphus spent a good chunk of the day searching bodies of water
in eastern Larimer County in search of waterbirds today. Our first stop
was at Boulder County's version of Terry Lake, where we could not find the
Red-throated Loon that had been reported recently. The lake did have a
Visited a few of the Mountain Lakes today. Found lakes near Georgetown,
Empire, and Idaho Springs almost completely frozen. Went up to Summit
County and found lots of open water. In the Silverthorne area most of the
ponds near the Blue River were open. One one of the ponds I was able to
COBirders,
The last two days while not sitting in a meeting room, a few of us were able to
do some birding down in southeast Colorado. Today, Mike Kiessig, Mike Henwood,
David Gillilan and myself started at John Martin Reservoir. Although some of
the white geese have shown up the bulk of the
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