[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 4 June 2014

Compiler: Joyce Takamine Date: June 4, 2014 email: rba AT cfobirds.org phone: 303-659-8750 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, June 4 sponsored by the Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message, you can skip the recording

[cobirds] Stuff still on the move, evidently

Hello, Birders. Right now, this very instant, Wednesday morning, June 4, there's a Western Flycatcher going off outside my window in Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado. Western because the position-note it's giving is ambiguous, and I don't at all assume that migrant Western Flycatchers

[cobirds] Black Phoebe, 75TH St. Bridge, Boulder

Hi, The Black Phoebe continues, mainly on west side of bridge this morning. I walked the south side of creek about a hundred yds. and watched a male Indigo Bunting soloing in a tree top out in the open field. There were also several Common Yellowthroats there. I did get a look at the Eastern

[cobirds] Dry Creek White-eyed Vireo NO

I could not find any sign of the vireo between 10:00 and 11:00 AM today. Glenn Walbek stopped by and said he had not seen it much earlier in the morning and did not see the Little Blue Heron reported at Belmar. I want to thank Christian Nunes (did hear and catch a glimpse of the Grace's Warbler

[cobirds] Followup on New Species on BBS Routes in South-, Central- and North-Eastern Colo

Hello Again, Following up on my post this past Tuesday in which I asked for ID help on birds I'd seen on my BBS routes... Quite a few people reviewed the pictures I had of what I thought might be an Ash-throated Flycatcher in Baca County and what I thought might be a Hooded Oriole

[cobirds] Red-necked Grebe nesting status (Jackson Co) and request for help

This is a follow-up to the previous report of Red-necked Grebes at Lake John in Jackson County. On Friday, May 30, 2014, Paul Slingsby and I were visiting Lake John on an RMBO ColonyWatch trip to monitor colonial water birds. In a cove at the northwest corner of the lake, we spotted a pair of

[cobirds] Red-headed Woodpecker/Larimer

On May 26, a Red-headed Woodpecker appeared and began calling from a burned ridge on our property. He has consistently moved to the national forest and back to our ridge. While these birds are not a rarity, it is interesting to me that they are attracted to burn areas. It has been 2 years

[cobirds] Grace's Warbler Continues, Eldorado Mtn Open Space Park, Boulder County

First thing this morning Sondra and I spent over an hour listening to the Grace's Warbler call from trees all around the location well described by Christian Nunes. We occasionally caught glimpses of a bird stealthily fly from one calling location to the other. Sondra eventually caught the bird