Re: [cobirds] Colorado county lines

2017-01-08 Thread Eric DeFonso
Apropos of nothing, I just wanted to add that I use the mob-rule website to track all the US counties I've ever been in. Why? Because it's fun, and I try to compete with my brother on it. I'm hopelessly far behind him in total numbers, but I at least have a couple states for which I've been in

Re: [cobirds] Colorado county lines

2017-01-08 Thread Ira Sanders
That is very cool. Ira Sanders On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Tom Wilberding wrote: > For all you COBird county listers, here is a useful website I did not know > about, just discovered. http://www.mob-rule.com/gmap. Type the location > in the box, then click on

[cobirds] Trumpeter Swan Continues @ Chatfield Lake 5 (Arapahoe County)

2017-01-08 Thread Gregg Goodrich
I also went to Joe's excellent new perch. The swan is still there today. Just a small amount of the lake is not frozen.What a wonderful view of the valley below. I did get some idable digiscope photos in the list below. Also had a distant juvenile dark morph Red-tailed Hawk with some poor

[cobirds] Love Doves, Douglas County

2017-01-08 Thread Tom Wilberding
Yesterday, on the 13th day of Christmas, Barb pointed out to me no French hens, no partridge in a tree, but she did point out seven “turtle doves” on the roof of a house at 10766 N Sunshine Dr, Littleton, south of Chatfield State Park. My guess is that they were released at a wedding or

[cobirds] Allenspark

2017-01-08 Thread 'goldenplover' via Colorado Birds
All three rosy finches still present at Fawnbrook inn-also at feeders at 126 Ski Road one Evening Grosbeak and Clarks nutcracker among usual species. Good birding...Bill Fink -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe

RE: [cobirds] Colorado county lines

2017-01-08 Thread Dick Filby
Tom Great resource, looks on-the-money many thanks Dick Filby Carbondale, Garfield Cty From: cobirds@googlegroups.com [mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tom Wilberding Sent: 08 January 2017 19:23 To: Colorado Birds Subject: [cobirds] Colorado county lines For all you COBird county

Re: [cobirds] Colorado county lines

2017-01-08 Thread 'Larry' via Colorado Birds
Hi Tom, MOB Rule, eh? That’s interesting. Was it a mob that carved out Broomfield County? I checked out your gmap, and I still don’t understand it! Larry > On Jan 8, 2017, at 12:23 PM, Tom Wilberding wrote: > > For all you COBird county listers, here is a useful

[cobirds] Rusty Blackbirds, Weld

2017-01-08 Thread Peter Gent
All, I arrived at the location where Weld CR 4 goes over Box Elder Creek, just east of Weld CR 49, at 8:30 this morning. Edie Israel arrived soon after, but we only saw a Song Sparrow for the next 30+ minutes. However, right after John Vanderpoel arrived, the 3 male Rusty Blackbirds flew in

[cobirds] Colorado county lines

2017-01-08 Thread Tom Wilberding
For all you COBird county listers, here is a useful website I did not know about, just discovered. http://www.mob-rule.com/gmap. Type the location in the box, then click on "Load" and you get a Google map showing county lines. Zoom in or out as needed. Click on the location and you see the

[cobirds] Woodcock at Bobcat Ridge (Larimer)

2017-01-08 Thread Nicholas Komar
Two American Woodcox are independently being seen right now at Bobcat ridge natural area in the creek between the parking lot in the road to Masonville. Observers are David Wade and Cole Wild Nick Komar Fort Collins Colorado Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are

[cobirds] Night at the Denver Museum...

2017-01-08 Thread maikel . wise
It was a dark and cold night. We walked through shadows of the past and entered an unmarked elevator into the dungeons of the museum. Our class entered a room filled with bird specimens. We saw, in great detail, birds long gone such as the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Passenger Pigeon and