Date:29 November 2010
e-mail: r...@cfo-link.org
phone: 303-659-8750
compiler: Joyce Takamine
This is Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Monday, November 29, 2010, at 5 am
sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory.
If you are phoning
Paul Slingsby and I visited four mountain lakes as part of Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory's Barrow's Goldeneye count Sunday. Windy Gap Reservoir was frozen.
Granby Reservoir was virtually 100% open making viewing challenging because
many waterbirds were distant in choppy water. Grand Lake was
Sunday morning we were able to find the previously reported Yellow-bellied
Sapsucker in Pueblo City Park.
The bird was in junipers south of Goodnight Ave, about 150 yards southeast of
the duck pond.
Doug Kibbe, Mackenzie Goldthwaite Littleton
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Both yesterday and today (Monday Nov 29) we have had an
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER coming to our bird bath located in
South Boulder. This seems a very late sighting for this species.
Alex Brown
south Boulder
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Hi COBirders,
My feeders are usually busy after a snowfall, but right now I have four
gorgeous Evening Grosbeaks eating safflower seeds in the windowbox.
Besides the usual winter suspects I also have the spread of Colorado juncos -
Gray-headed, Pink-sided, Oregon, Slate, Cassiar's, and one
About a week ago, I noticed a slightly different finch on a thistle
feeder, and it turned out to be a male purple finch! His beak is just
a little different shape with sort of a hook on the end, and he is
able to use it to eat at the thistle feeder. The very numerous house
finches never eat
I met Stephen Jones and Ruth Carol Cushman at The Red Rocks Trading
Post feeders this morning. They taped their monthly radio show as we
watched the Curve-billed Thrasher, Golden-crowned Sparrow, and a
Harris's Sparrow feeding on the west side amongst the other more
common species.
It is time for the 2010 Christmas Bird Counts! Below is everything I can think
of for the Delta count.
Compiler: Dennis Garrison dennisgarri...@hotmail.com
Date: 18 December 2010 (Saturday)
Time: Meet at 8 am at City Market parking lot in Delta.
Schedule: Bird until we get the circle
Hi cobirders. Sunday just before noon when I got home there was a
male Sharp-shinned hawk
looking in the Kitchen window from the Chokecherry tree nearby. It
kept opening its mouth
several times. Too small for Coopers with a few white patches on
its gray blue back. Lots of
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Hi all:
I have posted the solution to Mr. Bill Mystery Quiz #373 (the one with all the
ducks) and will get to the other two quizzes that are currently short of
solutions sometime later this week.
Sincerely,
Tony Leukering
Villas, NJ
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A lone Greater White-fronted Goose has been sighted in Parker, CO in
Douglas County. This goose was interspersed with well over 500 Canada
Geese at the 20 Mile Reservoir near the intersection of Mainstreet and
20 Mile Road near Super Target on Sunday, November 28th, 2010.
There is a video I
This morning my wife, mother (Scarborough, ME), and I braved the
elements to try to observe the Ross's gull. I figured between the
cold, wind, light snow on the ground, and white caps on Cherry Creek,
the gull would feel right at home in the near-Arctic conditions; but
to no avail.
Late from
Subject: 44th Annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count Nunn Circle
Thursday December 16th
Please join us for the 44th Annual Nunn Audubon Christmas Bird
count. Meet at the SGS/LTER buildings at 0730hrs to sign in and take
your part of the circle.
A tasty main dish will be provided by your host and
Today I found another male Williamson's Sapsucker in Canon City, this one in
a private yard only about a hundred feet from another male Williamson's I
found previously. Both were busy feeding in their respective pine trees
this morning. The closest male Williamson's I had previously found are
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