The young male Summer tanager is back sitting low in the serviceberry bush
in front of our house at 2268 Indian Peaks Circle in south Longmont. Best
viewing would be using your car as a blind by parking on the street in
front of our house.
The serviceberry does not yet have leaves so there is
Yesterday was a Wash for banding with the rain/thunderstorms and wind.
Today, however very windy, had the birds down low which may have helped us
capture more birds in the nets. Twenty-five bird species banded including
these new species of the season: Blackpoll Warbler, Willow Flycatcher,
Hey COBirders,
I, too, was washed out yesterday, and worked through wind today, but North
winds are not as much of a problem for me banding at Clear Spring Ranch.
138 birds netted today - 86 of which were from the ubiquitous Chipping Sparrow
flocks. (a sample of 11 were banded)
others:
FOS
Hi COBirders,
Once the clouds lifted around midday, I went out to the CU East Campus
area, from the confluence ponds to the scoreboard. There were
two Black-throated Gray Warblers feeding primarily in Boxelder along the
bikebath just north of the ponds -- a male and a female.
In the burned out
Just had a male Summer tanager in my yard in south Longmont. It had the
characteristic red, orange and yellowish feathering of a young male. It was
feeding in a serviceberry bush, in an Austrian pine and on the ground.
It flew off to the north. If birders want to look for it we live on Indian
Dinosaur Ridge - Denver Field Ornithologists
Colorado, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: May 12, 2023
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Black Vulture
Yesterday morning I found a Kentucky warbler at Prospect Ponds. The bird
continues this morning, relocated by Lauren Hatch at the same location.
>From the south parking lot, head along the bike path toward the
Environmental Learning Center, crossing a small bridge and arriving at a
stone bench on
I woke up at 6 am to a Black-headed Grosbeak singing from a neighbor’s
roof— he was so loud that I could hear him with my doors and windows
closed.
Sparrows: Lincoln’s Sparrow eating on my patio next to a White-crowned
Sparrow. A Chipping Sparrow is feeding under a bush next to a fir tree
where
