Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: August 29, 2012
email: rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, August 29, 2012,
sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory. If you are phoning
It's always a good thing when you can find other people that have the same
desire to be out birding all day.
We recently had a new employee arrive at our office.
Just prior to Dr. R.M.'s arrival at our worksite, she had watched The Big
Year.
This movie, along with findout out that I enjoy birding,
Gary Mathews, Bob Schlosser, Judy Wright and I enjoyed the Scissor-
tailed Flycatcher hunting from the wire fence on the north side of the
Van Bibber trail at the top of the hill immediately east of the yellow
hydrant from about 11:00 to 11:30 this morning. Judy and Gary
certainly got their
What a crazy bird. At 8:45 am the Boulder Bird Club and I had the bird in
the same area but it flew a 1/2 mile almost to Ward Rd at about 8:50 am. We
couldn't refind it.
Shortly thereafter, I had a Sage Thrasher and a Lark Bunting just north of
52nd and Xenon in some open and weedy fields
Hi all,
Dave Leatherman just called to report he found 22 species of birds at Last
Chance including a 1st fall female Tennessee Warbler. The warbler was
feeding on aphids on the north side in the thistle patch. Dave says while
Last Chance looks bad it is coming back and definitely worth
Good morning. This is my first post. Is this the correct procedure?
Suggestions?
Jim Thompson
667-8965
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2012 4:17 PM
To: forparg...@msn.com
Subject: eBird Report - Cameron Pass--Jackson Co., Aug 23, 2012
Cameron Pass--Jackson Co., Jackson, US-CO
Aug 23, 2012 8:00 AM -
Hi CO birders :
My group of Jackie H , Jeannie M and Aaron S picked out the juvenile
Curlew Sandpiper finally around 11 AM after walking out from the west side
campground to the waters edge through sinking , stinking mud. If we hadn't been
pre alerted to look for a Dunlin type peep it
When I saw the very long and wide bill with orangish lower mandible on a
empidonax flycatcher yesterday morning I thought it might be an Acadian
Flycatcher. I shot a number of photos quickly before it flew off into an
off-limits and fenced area by the Canon City Riverwalk. I went back down
this
Nick,
The only pewee I have seen with that large of a bill is a Greater
Peweehttp://birdsandnature.blogspot.com/search?q=peweethat I
photographed in McAllen, Texas and this bird reminded me of that one
but it seemed very unlikely.
SeEtta Moss
Canon City
Blogging for Birds and Blooms magazine @
I didn't think my bird was a Western Pewee not only because of the size of
the bill but because Western Pewee's don't have all organish/yellowish
lower mandibles per *Birds of North America* online (also not in my
experience): Upper mandible is black; lower mandible is mostly black, or
Migrants continue to make it through the backyard here in Green Mtn/Lakewood.
Today, I had a immature male Rose-breasted Grosbeak, several Western Tanagers,
and a possible female Indigo Bunting. The Rose-breasted Grosbeak never visited
the platform feeder a few feet away but stayed an hour
I have a lot of photographs of Western Wood-Pewee since they are common to
the Canon City area and I photographed one this morning within 50 feet of
where I photographed the other bird. I have added that photo to a post on
my blog with one of the other bird's
SeEtta, I am with you on this one. That bill is way too big for a Wood-Pewee.
My vote is Greater Pewee. This bird is not on the Colorado list, to my
knowledge, but it is long overdue. Is it fairly common not too far away in
southeast AZ. Great find. Better share which section of the Riverwalk
Nick,
Thanks for sticking with me on this one.
As I noted in my first post, I knew this bird was very unusual and took a
lot of photos before it flew off. I have gone back through them and found
one showing more of a crest, another characteristic of a Greater Pewee, and
added it to my Birds and
Yesterday I also found a female Williamson's Sapsucker on the Canon City
Riverwalk near the location I saw the possible Greater Pewee. I saw one
today also and it about a quarter mile east of where I saw one yesterday,
may be the same bird.
In the past several days I have seen several Black
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