[cobirds] NE Colorado: Gulls and Geese; Whistling Swan, possible Common Ground Dove

2012-03-11 Thread Steven Mlodinow
Greetings All, Tim Smart worked from Prewitt to Jumbo and back today Today, at Prewitt Reservoir, the following gulls were present 325 Herring Gulls 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls 6 Glaucous Gulls 13 Thayer's Gulls 2 Iceland Gulls (ad and 2nd cycle) 2 Thayers/Iceland Gulls 1 Glaucous-winged Gul

[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, March 11, 2012

2012-03-11 Thread Ira Sanders
Compiler: Ira Sanders Date: March 11, 2012 e-mail: rba AT cfobirds.org phone: 303-659-8750 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, March 11, 2012, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message, you can skip the recor

[cobirds] Colo Spgs Hawkwatch, Saturday

2012-03-11 Thread Steven Brown
Hi COBirders, Not much for raptor observations this weekend. Besides the resident Red-tails (one Juv is being seen regularly scaring the pigeons and swooping through our backyards), only one migrant was seen, an female American Kestrel,(FOY) Saturday. Steve Brown Clorado Springs -- You recei

[cobirds] Roaring Fork Sunday, Rosies, Barrow's etc (Pitkin +Garfield counties)

2012-03-11 Thread Dick Filby
Hi all, Managed some birding today in the Roaring Fork valley on a glorious warm, sunny and calm day.. Snowmass ski area (Pitkin Cty) Rosy-Finches: at least 60 Browncaps and Graycrowns at the feeders at the top of Sam's Knob. No sign today of the Pine Marten at the other feeder. My rem

[cobirds] Great Blue Herons, Great Horned Owl, Boulder County, CO

2012-03-11 Thread Barry
We saw 7 Great Blue Herons at about 2:00pm at the small rookery on Crane Hollow Drive near Hygiene in Boulder County. Six were building or sitting on nests in the trees just to the north of the middle pond, one was off in a tree further east. Surprisingly (to me), there was a Great Horned Owl sitti

[cobirds] HSR: Dinosaur Ridge (11 Mar 2012) 3 Raptors

2012-03-11 Thread reports
Dinosaur Ridge Colorado, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 11, 2012 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black Vulture0 0

[cobirds] Killdeer

2012-03-11 Thread Kat Bradley-Bennett
Two Killdeer showed up this morning in the area of west Longmont's Millenium Park, currently under construction. Kat Bradley-Bennett katpbenn...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to co

[cobirds] Some Weld County Birds on 3/11

2012-03-11 Thread William H Kaempfer
I toured through southern Weld County today and found the following: Union Reservoir has very few birds on it, but the Red-necked Grebe reported a while back by Peter Plage persists. In fact there are so few birds there that the grebe really stands out. Montfort Marsh (aka Rd. 59 Marsh) had ab

[cobirds] Greater Yellowlegs/Weld and Larimer Water Tour

2012-03-11 Thread The "Nunn Guy"
Weld Route: Crom Lake, Drake Lake, WCR 31/80 Pond, Cozzens Lake, 25th Ave Gravel Pond, Fst Ponds, 35th Ave Gravel Ponds, Seeley Lake, Neuman's lake, Neff Lake, Woods Lake, Angel lake, Baldridge March and Lake, WCR 23 Severance Marsh Larimer Route: Wellington SWA, Clark Reservoir, Boxelder Res

[cobirds] Any recent sightings of Roadrunner?

2012-03-11 Thread Joan Larrabee
Has anyone seen the Roadrunner this weekend? I will be heading that way on Monday morning. If you have seen it, please give specific directions as we are from Colo. Springs and not really acquainted with that area. Thanks to the moderator if he allows this question to be published. Joan Lar

[cobirds] Golden-crowned Sparrow persists at Teller Farms

2012-03-11 Thread jharlan
The GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW continues to hang out near the parking lot at North Teller Farms off of Valmont Rd (today Mar 11, 1130AM). Each time I've seen it, it has been within 10 feet or less of a White-crowned Sparrow. I'm at this trailhead 4 times or more each week biking and I usually take a