[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, October 1, 2013

Compiler: Joyce Takamine Date: October 1, 2013 email: rba AT cfobirds.org phone: 303-659-8750 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, October 1, 2013 sponsored by the Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message, you can skip the

[cobirds] ABA Bird Quiz: All Common Colorado Birds

Hello, Birders. I've posted to The ABA Blog a bird quiz. 10 common birds, and they're all from Colorado. In fact, they're all from Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County, this past Wednesday morning, Sept. 25th? This should be easy, right?... :-) Well, see for yourself:

[cobirds] Birding Harriman Lake - Jefferson County, CO

Since Bear Creek Lake has been devastated by the flood, I've gone back to birding Harriman Lake. This small Denver Water reservoir was drained in 2011, dam rebuilt, and refilled with water last winter. There was a nice variety of spring water fowl, but not much in the way of fish to feed

[cobirds] DFO October 5th cancellation

The DFO trip scheduled for October 5th has been cancelled due to the indefinite closure of Boulder County trails. Hansley has encouraged everyone to attend the RMBO picnic in lieu. Chris Owens, October scheduler -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[cobirds] Denver- Marston Reservoir Common Loons

Two Common Loons were present on the NW corner of Marston Reservoir. They are most easily viewed from the levee bordering the cattail marsh east of the S. Wadsworth Blvd. Extension. Doug Kibbe Littleton -- You received this message because you

[cobirds] County list updates

Hi COBirders, Sorry for not getting this out last week.  If you have any updates for your Lifetime County Lists please send them to me by this Sunday, 10/6. You can go to the CFO Page to see the current lists and if you want to get a report form.  Just a reminder that report forms are not

[cobirds] Vireos in Bear Creek Park, Denver

While on a walk in the Denver portion of Bear Creek Park this noon, we found three coyotes and a Blue-headed and a Cassin's Vireo. From the parking lot on W. Kenyon Blvd. walk northwest along the Bear Creek Path which borders the west side of the series of small ponds. The vireos were about

[cobirds] Re: Birding Harriman Lake - Jefferson County, CO

Might try to chase the rusty blackbird! Can you post where, exactly, you saw it? Thanks! Bryan Arnold On Tuesday, October 1, 2013 12:44:14 PM UTC-6, Regina King wrote: Since Bear Creek Lake has been devastated by the flood, I've gone back to birding Harriman Lake. This small Denver Water

[cobirds] N. Parula at Grndvw. Cem., FC (Larimer) update 10/1

The Northern Parula male first reported on 9/26 at Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins was still present in the top of the same Northern Hackberry in the extreme ne corner of Section 1 over the black Jensen headstone, still feasting on adult psyllids, as of 5 this evening on 1 October. That

[cobirds] Greg Miller, a picnic, and much more

Cobirders, Do you know Greg Miller? Meethim Saturday! Featured in Mark Obmascik’s Best Seller, The Big Year, hesaw over 700 ABA birds the hard way. He worked 50-hour weeks to finance histrips, subsisting on Jif peanut butter and pretzels for days. Jack Black playedGreg in The Big Year

[cobirds] Best Bird Dancers Displaying

Cobirders, How many of our grouse family dances have you watched? Professionalphotographer Noppadol Paothong spent over a decade researching andphotographing these fascinating birds. He will present Save the Last Dance on Thursday,October 3, co-sponsored by Rocky Mountain Bird

[cobirds] RMBO Barr Banding Station Report, 10/1/13

Boy, this is not fun, continuing to post one slow day after another! Maybe I'll hold off until something exciting happens (hope that will be before spring!) Here's today's 10 birds: Ruby-crowned Kinglet 4 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Townsend's Warbler 1 Wilson's Warbler