[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 25 May 2017

2017-05-25 Thread Joyce Takamine
Compiler: Joyce Takamine e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org Date:May 25, 2017 This is the Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, May 25 sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies. Highlight species include: (* indicates new

[cobirds] buckets of evening grosbeaks - Rio Grande County

2017-05-25 Thread Sandra Laursen
I am working in Monte Vista, CO (7700' ), this week, and took a late afternoon walk along the acequia. I have never seen so many Evening Grosbeaks! Multiple flocks of multiple birds in the new-leafed trees along a mile-long stretch of the canal, with females and males in full-color plumage

[cobirds] Bird Conservancy Banding Report - Chatfield Station, 5/25/17

2017-05-25 Thread Meredith . McBurney
The warm weather and wind today resulted in fewer birds and an early closing. Banded 21 birds today: Black-capped Chickadee 2 Swainson Thrush 4 Gray Catbird 1 Yellow Warbler 4 American Redstart 1 MacGillivray's Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 1 Wilson's Warbler 1 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 Lincoln's

[cobirds] Great-tailed Grackle, Westminster, Broomfield Co

2017-05-25 Thread ROBERT RIGHTER
At 2 pm today a male Great-tailed Grackle was sitting on the roof of a Lowes store in Westminster, Broomfield Co Bob Righter Denver CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

[cobirds] Magnolia Warbler Report [Browns Canyon National Monument]

2017-05-25 Thread The "Nunn Guy"
Hi all Passing along some secondhand info from the field ...our (U. S. Forest Service) Botanist birder reports the following: " ... I did see a few species of some interest yesterday (Chaffee and Park Cos.). Actually on the BLM side of Browns Canyon National Monument, there were two

[cobirds] Yellow throated warbler, Pueblo

2017-05-25 Thread bay . wren
The singing yellow throated warbler is still present at mineral Palace park in central Pueblo. Also a singing red eyed vireo, seen and recorded just north of 17th and court. Eric DeFonso Westminster Sent from the Aether -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[cobirds] Re: 11,000 Red-necked Phalaropes

2017-05-25 Thread mvjohnski
Well Bill.its hard to do everything and with raising two very active teenaged daughters, running the San Luis Valley Bird Network, part time work as naturalist at the Zapata Ranch, keeping local bird records for the San Luis Valley, and recording all the information for seasonal reports, my

[cobirds] Re: Mineral County May 23

2017-05-25 Thread mvjohnski
On Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 8:26:13 PM UTC-6, Roger Linfield wrote: > > The Red-necked Phalarope invasion made it into the mountains in small > numbers. Today in Mineral County there were 12 on the FR 523 pond and 8 on > one of the two large ponds along state route 149 near the Hinsdale line.

[cobirds] N Waterthrush, Virginia's Warb, CSR, El Paso Co, Thurs

2017-05-25 Thread Steven Brown
Hey COBirders, VERY slow this morning. Hot, clear, windy, and almost no migrants caught today at Clear Spring Ranch banding. The majority of birds seen today were probably local breeders, and I recaptured several from previous breeding seasons. First bird caught at 6:45 this morning was a

[cobirds] Red-headed Woodpecker report, Chaffee Cty

2017-05-25 Thread Eric DeFonso
Hi folks, A nonbirding friend of mine living in Salida plausibly described seeing and photographing (poorly) what sounds to me like a Red-headed Woodpecker in Salida in Chaffee County a couple days ago. She mentioned that a friend of hers who was with her and is more familiar with birds also was