Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: May 4, 2015
This is the Rare Bird Alert, Monday, May 4 sponsored by Denver Field
Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species).
BRANT (Rio Grande)
Barrow's Goldeneye (Eagle)
Green
All:
Over the last few days of hiking and birding it's been a real
challenge on some of the trails due to wet conditions. Four days ago
Boulder Mountain Parks trails turned into a morass of mud and rivulets.
Ditto Rocky Mountain National Park - in some areas the trails turned into
Hi all
I birded/walked Poudre River Trail http://poudretrail.org/trail-tour from
Island Grove to 25th Avenue identifying 41 species between Island Grove and
25th Avenue. Highlights:
- (New) Western Kingbird
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- (New) Orange-crowned Warbler
- (New) Osprey
Hi COBirders,
Nope, sorry, no Painted Bunting seen today.
For what looked like it might be great conditions, numbers were relatively low.
I did band 13 new birds, nothing dramatic. There were a couple FOY’s, including
Gray Catbird and Dusky Flycatcher, and two more YB Chats after my FOY
On the west side of the lake in a large cottonwood with a few Yellow-rumps;
'Western' variety
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Cheers,
Dan Maynard
Denver, CO
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New arrivals:
First Common Poorwill of the year was calling Friday night (May 1),
Western Kingbirds arrived Saturday mid-morning (and went straight to their old
nest from last year to check it out).
Lazuli Buntings, both male and female are increasing in numbers and coming to
the feeders
COBirders,
While visiting our daughter and family yesterday she showed me a brooding
Blue Jay in her back yard. I imagine several of you will be interested in
the objects the parents used to weave their nest. Here is a photo I have
posted on Flickr:
Greetings All
Nick Moore and I spent the day roving around Lincoln County. Much of the day
was spent on private property, but one trend was clear. The westerly flow
before last nights storms brought western birds
We had 3 Virginia's Warblers, a Townsend's, a Plumbeous Vireo, a Hammond's
I spotted a Lazuli Bunting in my yard yesterday morning, got a pic of him
in my neighbor's tree then spotted another along the Canon City Riverwalk
where they breed. Also got pics of a male Bullock's Oriole, who was
foraging with a female in a cottonwood tree just outside of Florence. I
have
FOS male and fem Broad-tailed Hummingbirds on feeder today.
FOS black-backed Lesser Goldfinch male on thistle feeder May 1. Females
also arrived.
FOS American Goldfinches on thistle feeder April 20.
But, alas, my Say's Phoebes did not return to my box to nest after 4 yrs
raising kids here.
Well done CSUFO,
Great report!
On Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 4:39:27 PM UTC-6, Francis Commercon wrote:
This morning several members of CSU Field Ornithologists enjoyed the
organization’s last field trip of the semester. We gathered this morning at
7:30AM on campus before our drive down to
Eight this morning at Cottonwood Marsh I found a Spotted Sandpiper, Lesser
Yellowlegs and a hungry flock of a dozen Long billed Dowitcher. Two Avocets
continue and there was an abundance of Violet Green Swallows. Nice. At
Clover Basin Res. in Longmont there were 3 more LB Dowitcher, 2 Lesser
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