compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: September 11, 2011
e-mail: rba@cfo-link
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, September 11, 2011
updated at 5:00 am, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message,
Cobirders,
The Long-tailed Jaeger remains at Cherry Creek reservoir. It is
currently being seen on the east side.
Good birding,
Steve Stachowiak
Highlands Ranch
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Cobirds:
A long summer of slogging up 14ers. Here's the most
recent:
Mt Antero, Sat Sept. 10th: White throated swift (1) at the summit.
Very cold conditions with snow. Also: white tailed ptarmigan, brown
capped rosy finches, common ravens. And lower down: gray jays,
clark's
I just saw a Mountain Chickadee on a sunflower seed head. This is the first
I have seen this season.
I saw 2 Pine Siskins in my sunflower garden today, pretty much right on time
to return from to the lowlands. This week I have watched fledgling Lesser
Goldfinch beg to be fed while perched in
I had some interesting birds at Chatfield this morning. I hiked all the way to
the west side of the creek at the second lake on the east side of the Platte to
the south of Kingfisher bridge. In the clump of trees on the east side of the
first lake, I had several Yellow Warblers and a
Cobirders,
The 20th annual Fountain Creek Regional Park Fall Bird Count took place
yesterday morning. Twenty-four birders scanned the park for about 3 hours and
found 66 species for the day and about 1381 birds. The numbers are lower than
recent previous years, especially if I
Another quiet day at the Barr Station; 17 birds banded. One flock of
Chipping Sparrows mid-morning; otherwise not much moving. We did re-catch
the Magnolia Warbler from yesterday, which made the Sunday volunteers VERY
happy! Here's the rundown of new birds:
Western Wood-pewee 1
Willow
A young male Rufous Hummingbird was (Sunday, 7:40-7:50 pm) sitting in my
Washington Hawthorne tree preening after flying back and forth through my
sprinkler!! He is the first Rufous I have seen here this summer. Another
hummer also flew through the water spray, but I did not get an id.
Paula
Greetings All,
Today, Tracy and I spent all day at Prewitt Res (well, from 7 to 4). Why? Not
sure, as the landbirding was sllow. However, at the end of the day,
we had a 5 or so minute look at a juv BB CUCKOO about 20 feet from us. The bird
was in the cottonwoods and willows
