Thanks for the link, Scott. I know that will be helpful.
I am learning more of the 4 letter abbreviations but I think it's appropriate
for the person posting to state the bird's name completely once in the posting.
There are a lot of us that get tons of emails and are just trying to wade
throug
I'm about to head up to Fort Collins from Littleton to look for the Woodcock,
would love to know if anyone has seen him today…
Deb Carstensen, Littleton
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> On Jan 6, 2016, at 8:16 AM, 'Dan Stringer' via Colorado Birds
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> Ira,
> I searched thoroughly for the Americ
The woodcock was present this afternoon, found by a young couple from Fort
Collins. (Unfortunately, I didn't get their names! Drat.)
The Woodcock was found at dusk about 200 yards down the hill from the Ranger's
house. He/she was by the stream, probing the sand.
Other birders there were Claire
I think it's a sharp shinned hawk. Beautiful picture! Deb Carstensen,
Littleton, Arapahoe County
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> On Jan 27, 2016, at 10:24 PM, Ken Westlund wrote:
>
> In my previous post with similar subject, I was not aware that I could upload
> a picture, so this message contains a pi
Speaking of Says' phoebes, I have a question about whether or not they would
eat box elder bugs. I have had a terrible infestation of Box Elder bugs for the
last couple of years and, last spring, I saw hundreds of baby Box Elder bugs
running around my garden.
I had Say's phoebes nesting jus
Oh my gosh, in my post about the Say's phoebes eating ground bugs, I said that
they were box elder bugs. That's not right! They were earwigs! I had terrible
infestations of earwigs over the last few years and they're hard for me to
manage so I was glad when they didn't seem to be a problem this
I accidentally left my Sibley's on a park bench at fountain Creek nature
center. I can't make it down today and there's no one there until tomorrow. If
anyone goes there ain't looking for me the purple finch, and you see the book,
can you grab it for me? I can't remember if I had my name in it b
Part ruddy duck?
Carstensen, Littleton, arapahoe county
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> On Feb 17, 2016, at 8:27 PM, Mary Keithler wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> A group of Tuesday Birders visited the South Platte River in Adams County
> yesterday morning. Rob Raker noticed an interesting hybrid duck just sou
I'm just sending this email to retitle it so that when people respond to it, it
won't have part of my name in the response. This duck was discovered by other
great birders, I had nothing to do with it…
Thanks, Deb Carstensen, Littleton
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> On Feb 18, 2016, at 10:06 PM, Mary Kei
Yay!
Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe county
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> On Feb 28, 2016, at 3:04 PM, David Suddjian wrote:
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> Dear COBirders,
>
> The COBirds list rules are now being changed to permit inclusion of photos in
> this way: Images of birds or other subjects directly pertinent to th
There was a turkey vulture circling my place today in unincorporated Arapahoe
County, just outside of Littleton. I didn't remember seeing other posts about
vultures except those further south so I thought I'd throw this in.
I still have some of the smaller forms of geese, Richardsons and Lesser
My email was hacked! Please don't open my previous email or click on the link.
Thanks, Deb Carstensen
This email is late because AOL locked up my email until I reset my password.
Not a bad idea but it took me a while to figure that out. I hope no one had
trouble because of the email that Had
It must seem like I'm an incredible underachiever here compared to everyone
else's amazing posts but I decided to post nonetheless!
Says phoebe,nesting: I've been very excited about the phoebes nesting where
they were last year until yesterday when I saw a Coopers hawk flying away from
th
I've spent many humbling hours over the years as I birdwatched , too many to
count. My latest was just yesterday as I was trying again to identify a
chipping sound I heard only to realize it was a "chip"munk. Doh
I must say, however, that my favorite exercise in humility took place on
the Ra
I have friends in from California who would like to see some new birds! I've
decided to go to Chatfield reservoir but was wondering if anyone would be
interested in going with us on Tuesday morning to help me find some of these
great birds. I'm particularly looking for war of the songbirds rathe
Thanks to everyone who posted and gave me an opportunity see this beautiful
bird. I had seen one once before in Texas but never here and had always want to
see one again!
It was towards the center of the pond, taking a bath, checking things out and
then fishing.
An Osprey landed in the water b
I forgot to mention that the little blue heron is still where he has been
reported at Rodgers Grove Park Inn Boulder County.
Deb Carstensen, Littleton
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They are birds not of words but of actions!
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> On Jul 21, 2016, at 3:57 PM, Virginia Simmons
> wrote:
>
> For a change of pace, read the news about a Mute Swan that is attacking and
> destroying model boats in England, where model boat clubs tak
Suspicious White goose, eh? Was he seen peering into peoples windows? Was he
saying hanging out around an elementary school? (;
Deb Carstensen, Littleton
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> On Oct 7, 2016, at 7:12 AM, Joey Angstman wrote:
>
> There is an all white goose hanging out in the pond north of Ho
After sunning himself for two 10 minute sessions, a great blue heron
walked into my pond, hung out for a few minutes and then proceeded to kill and
eat a muskrat . I think the muskrat was a juvenile but was still pretty large.
As with last year, I have up to 150 cormorants roosting
I have two greater white fronted geese at my house. I live on the top of three
ponds at my complex which is Columbine Lakes townhomes. It's a private area but
I feel that it would be OK if people wanted to see the geese. The complex is on
Platte Canyon Road 1/2 mile south of Bowles. The geese we
I saw the dipper under the bridge a couple of years ago but haven't seen it
there since. I don't see any reason for him to not to go to other areas of the
river but I haven't heard of one being reported on our waterfall counts.
Good luck!
Deb Carstensen, Arapahoe County
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I don't remember seeing any reports of swamp sparrows at South platte park.
Skot Latona would be the best person to ask and he reads this list. I'll send
your question to him, anyway to make sure he gets it. I'd be interested to hear
what he had to say. There sure are a fair share of song spar
I had looked at a bird on Sunday and hadn't figured out what it was until I
saw David Suddjian's post about a juvenile northern goshawk. A goshawk didn't
occur to me at all and so I tried to make it into a juvenile Red tailed hawk
although I wasn't the least bit satisfied with my assessment.
The hybrid goose that you showed a picture of reminds me of the hybrid geese we
have at my house outside of Littleton. They showed up three years ago and I
ended up deciding they were hybrids of emden and Canada geese.
The geese we have here have white on their heads and neck, orange feet,
I am at Crom lake and there are lots of shorebirds! Please take the following
list with a grain of salt as shorebirds are not my strong point.
Stilt sandpipers – around 20
Avocets – 6
Wilson's phalaropes- 4
Rednecked phalaropes – 2
Least sandpipers
Dowitchers.
Prairie falcon
Robins
Barn swallows
At Killdeer to the list from Deb Carstensen, Littleton,
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> Subject: [cobirds] Shorebirds, Crom lake
>
Thanks to everyone's observations and directions as to finding the Sabine's
gulls, I was able to find them today without any problem. I saw three of them.
(Life bird!) They were easy to find off the sand spit near the marina. They
were so easy to identify that it makes me wonder if they could tr
After reading the posts about the doves, I remembered this wonderful video that
really makes me smile. I think that this is a African collared dove if I match
it with the description in the previous emails. These two in the video
obviously grew up together.
Deb Carstensen.
http://m.youtube.com
My phone sent the previous email before I was ready. But I pretty much just
needed to sign my name,
Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe County
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I usually have only seen about 25 cormorants come to roost on the ponds where I
live. I was stunned last night to realize that I have more than 90 roosting in
different trees around the ponds.
Today, at the height of the eclipse, the cormorants came swooping in by the
dozens into the trees. Thi
I once again have a greater white fronted goose on the ponds where I live. He
has been here off and on for a year now, even through the summer. He may be
here all the time and I just don't notice him if he's hanging out on the lower
two ponds.
This is also a great place to study the differ
The northern end of the metro South Platte River has a lot of great birds and
gets a lot of great reports but I wanted to give a shout out to South Platte
Park.
Today I wandered around the ponds at the southern end of the park. There
were so many great waterbirds, none of them unusual but th
I just got some more Songbird stamps from the post office. They're so beautiful!
The question is, which bird should use when you're sending in a bill, say to
the IRS ?
Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe County
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I am in Pueblo at this time and was wondering if somebody could give me a
little more information about where I could find this wren. I did see a comment
about it being in the west river walk area.
Thanks, Deb Carstensen, Littleton
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> On Jan 16, 2015, at 10:51 AM, Joey Kelln
Educating is helpful knowing that many people will make the right choice when
they understand the repercussions of their actions. Unfortunately, this isn't
always true.
When I reported a saw-whet owl in Littleton, I only gave the location info
to a few people after getting permission from
I'm thinking about heading up to Fort Collins to try to find the Woodcock. Has
anyone seen him in the last couple of days and where did you see him? I have
information from the earlier posts of where people or seen him but nothing
lately.
Thanks, Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe County.
Se
A small group of us were able to see short-eared owl in the same general
vicinity that they have been seen over the last few days. It was off County
Road 82 near the Rawhide plant, a few miles west of I 25. The address that
Rachel Hopper gave, 2086 Buckeye Rd. , is close to where it was sited.
I am considering going up past Fort Collins to see if the short eared owls are
still there. Has anyone seen them recently and where were they? I'd love to get
a good view of these guys!
Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe County
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I've had three pairs of common answers hanging out on the ponds where you live.
Their mating ritual is really interesting in that, after they have mated, the
female lays down on the water as if she's dead. It looks somewhat like a fish
floating on top of the water, I can't even see her head.
Th
I read my email that I sent out and realized what an awful job I did of
proofreading Siri… Geez, I thought I looked it over before I send it but
obviously I wasn't very thorough!
I wanted to mention that a neighbor of mine watched the same behavior with the
female merganser post copulation (I'm
Claire Montour and I went to Cheeseman Park as well. I saw no crossbills or
sapsuckers. I did see a red breasted nuthatches,some crows and flickers. Not
too exciting… But worth a try!
Deb Carstensen Littleton, Arapahoe County
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> On Apr 4, 2015, at 12:30 PM, Jared Del Rosso w
I love watching snowy egrets fish. It kind of looks like they have a piece of
tape stuck to the bottom of their foot and they're trying to shake it off!
I had my first snowy egrets here today, far earlier than I normally see them
which is in June.
Deborah Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe County
While looking along the Main reservoir trail, I did hear a song that fit what I
had heard on my Ibird app for a golden winged warbler. I looked up, saw
black-and-white on the face, some white underneath the chin and a heavy golden
bar on the wing. There was no yellow in the tail.
I saw the
I spent some time in the Plum Creek area at Chatfield, near the picnic tables,
and couldn't find the scissor tailed flycatcher.
I did enjoy watching a pair of Cooper's hawks . I first saw the male Coopers
hawk with a bird ( house finch?) in its talons. He was calling incessantly,
which is how I
The scissor tailed flycatcher is currently in the field opposite the area of
historical interest sign near the lake loop.
Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe County
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I was at South platte park this morning. Just 3 to 4 days ago, the river was
running at 27,000 CFS. Today, the river was running at 11,000 CFS and was
visibly much lower than it had been for the last month.
It makes me wonder if they have decreased the amount of water being released
from Chatfi
I have a very young spotted Sandpiper here on my ponds just outside of
Littleton! We finally have grasses and water plants growing up from around our
ponds after years of me trying to get them to let things grow in. I had seen a
pair of spotted Sandpipers oft and on but had no idea that they had
Oh, come on, you're not a fool! Every time people reach out for help on IDs
they're taking a risk of looking silly, but what better use of this format than
to get help with birds?
The more people ask for help with IDs, the more others, like myself, will be
willing to do the same. Then some o
There were 8 sandhill cranes over the Monte Vista wildlife refuge this morning.
Quite a few other birds, especially water fowl, none that were unexpected.
There are a lot of plays along highway 285 between Saguache and Monte Vista
but there aren't a lot of places to stop along the side of the
Elaine Klaver, Topi and I were walking the ponds behind my house and found a
solitary sandpiper. A new yard bird!
We also counted well over 160 double crested cormorants roosting in the
cottonwood trees on the ponds. Yikes.
Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe county
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I'm not really sure what county Chatfield is...
I went to Chatfield today after work to check it out. I didn't see the
comment turn that was mentioned in a previous post.
The only birds on the sandspit were pelicans, double crested Cormorants and
gulls. I'll mention now that I don't rea
I saw a squirrel eat 4 sparrow nestlings with sparrow parents unable to stop
him.
Deb Carstensen, Littleton
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> On Oct 29, 2015, at 4:03 PM, The Nunn Guy wrote:
>
> http://coloradobirder.ning.com/photo/never-have-seen-this-behavior-before
>
> We were stunned watching it ou
I was preparing to go into the Bed ,Bath and Beyond store on Bowles just east
of Wadsworth when I looked up to see a kestrel flying up to a hole in the
façade of the building where the sign is. There is a round hole, approximately
2 to 3 inches in diameter up and to the left of the main sign f
When I used to work in north Denver, the apartment building next to the
> school had a pair of American Kestrels nesting in the roof. They would enter
> through a small crack.
>
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 8:04 PM, 'Deborah Carstensen' via Colorado Birds
>> wrote
I have really appreciated the discussion on roosting birds. I've learned a lot
from it and have enjoyed hearing everybody's different experiences, especially
the wren in the patio furniture story!
It's nice to know that a certain percentage of birds have a pretty great place
to say safe in horr
Is the bill long enough For a tropical kingbird?
Deb Carstensen, Littleton
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> On Jul 29, 2018, at 5:39 PM, kickback wrote:
>
> I saw this Kingbird next to the El Paso county maintenance yard in Peyton
> and at first I thought it was just a Western kingbird (yawn) but that it
What’s the purpose of the vibration? How does that attract fish? Deb
Carstensen, Littleton
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> On Aug 31, 2018, at 8:07 AM, Rachel wrote:
>
> COBirders,
>
> Yesterday at Long Pond, Ft. Collins, Larimer County, I shot some video of a
> Snowy Egret using bill vibration to h
OK, I know this is an awful post because I don’t know the exact location and
didn’t report it promptly. I apologize for that.
I was driving north on I 25 today at around 1:30 PM when a dark hawk flew
over the highway from west to east and landed in a tree. It was very dark and
had rust wing
White pelicans! Cool.
Deb Carstensen, Littleton
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> On Nov 10, 2018, at 1:48 PM, Kyle Medina wrote:
>
> So I was hiking through Waterton Canyon when I noticed these flock. They
> image was heavily cropped so the quality is terrible but I am sure there are
> some experts th
; On Saturday, November 10, 2018 at 1:55:44 PM UTC-7, Greg Pasquariello wrote:
>>> Not enough trailing black on the back of the wing. They look like snow
>>> geese to me.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> -Greg Pasquariello
>>>
>>>
>>
A gadwall mix? Deb Carstensen, Littleton
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> On Dec 8, 2018, at 9:45 PM, Nicholas Komar wrote:
>
> Here is another hybrid duck, photographed today at Prospect Ponds Natural
> Area’s Sharp Point Pond in Fort Collins (Larimer County). It appears to be a
> drake Mallard x Nort
I’m going to go up and try again for this goose. Has anyone seen it today and
where did they find it?
Thanks so much, Deb Carstensen
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The falcon was seen by Ed Secor and me at about 330 from the gate of the Ft
Collins landfill eating prey. We had seen it flying around intermittently but
then saw him come down to the landfill and eat his prey with magpies and ravens
in attendance.
The gate to the landfill is on Taft Hill
We didn’t see him catch is prey and couldn’t tell what he was eating through
the scope . We did see pigeons fly up on occasion so it could’ve been one of
them but I was also wondering if he would go for one of the many magpies that
were there.
Who knew that staring through the scope at the la
Here are some ideas:
Bear creek in Evergreen- dipper
North entrance of White Ranch- Lazuli Bunting
Various warblers
Roxborough park- golden eagle, prairie falcon
Black headed grosbeak, blue gray gnatcatchers
I was just adding in some close areas. Pawnee national grasslands are
I’ve never seen a cinnamon teal with a crescent on its face. I would go towards
blue winged teal.
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> On Mar 24, 2019, at 9:09 PM, joe.kippe...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I agree with Michael...
> The red eye also leads me to think that Cinnamon Teal is in the mix
> somewhere. Sho
I have a nice pair of white from dickies in a mixture of cackling /Richardson’s
geese this morning. I don’t remember ever having a pair here before, usually
just one. They both seem to be first year birds to me.
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Yikes, that beak looks really thick for a yellow throat,,,I’ll look forward to
reading the wisdom of others...
Deb Carstensen, Arapahoe county
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> On May 19, 2019, at 9:56 PM, kickback wrote:
>
> I saw this bird today at Fountain Creek Nature Center. I think it is a female
Thanks to Bill and Ruth, sorry I have forgotten last name, I was able to enjoy
a kettle of 36 or more Swainsons hawk. There might of been another type of Hawk
but Swainsons was the only one identified . It was at nightfall and they flew
under the clouds on their way north. It was beautiful!
I
Two feruginous hawks and a red tailed hawk on a nest.
DebCarstensen Arapahoe county
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I would guess bobwhite as well. There are farms that raise them as game birds
and they escape on occasion.
Deb Carstensen, Littleton
PS The only bobwhite I have ever seen was roaming the driveway at the entrance
of Swedish Hospital. It took some effort to catch him and then we took him to
Bird
I saw a three toed woodpecker at Pawnee campground at Brainard lake last
evening at about 8pm. He was at campsite 31. Post late because I didn’t have
WiFi until now.
I was disappointed that I didn’t see any Canada jays or Clark’s
nutcrackers. I did hear hermit thrushes, saw crossbills a
Can anyone tell myself and Dale Peterson where the westerly creek bridge is?
Help a poor birder!
Deb Carstensen
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> On Sep 10, 2019, at 3:22 PM, David Ely wrote:
>
> 3:19 Ani is on south side in thicket 5-8 ft. Upstream from Westerly Creek
> Bridge. Across from all the ba
I would vote for the juvenile goshawk! Deb Carstensen, Arapahoe county
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> On Sep 11, 2019, at 8:59 PM, Diana Beatty wrote:
>
> Mississippi Kites to my knowledge are unlikely to take a dove as prey;
> they're not drastically larger than one to begin with, and they commonly t
Yesterday, around nine in the morning, more than 50 grackles took over the
joint for about 15 minutes and then swooped out. It was very dramatic and
noisy!
I’m down to one hummingbird here which I think is the Calliope female or
youngster.
I still have more than a hundred cormorants r
I sat in a forest west of Nederland for four hours today as I played the fiddle
for families walking through an “enchanted forest “. It was a fundraiser for a
Nederland ecology/nature center that is going to be built there.
I enjoyed the wildlife and bemoaned the fact that I hadn’t brought m
Hooded warbler was seen in the thickets across the stream at 39.577202,
-104.982320.
It is off the gravel trail that goes from Mineral to the west on Lee Gulch
trail. About 50 yards in there is a dead tree with a limb that comes straight
out then goes straight up at a 90 degree angle.
Birders
I continue to have the greater white fronted goose here on the pond that I
live on in Arapaho County just outside of Littleton (south of Bowles off Platte
Canyon.) He's become more accepted by the Canada geese here and seems to be one
of the gang.
I'm wondering if there have been other inst
I just want to add one thought to this discussion. There has been a
tremendous loss of habitat for these migrating birds and if a situation occurs
that proves extremely stressful, I think feeding them is a reasonable and
humane response.
Deb Carstensen, Littleton
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> On M
I don't know what county I'm in…, near Greeley for what that's worth.
At Loloff reservoir, there are hundreds of phalarope and at least a couple
redneck phalarope. There's nothing I think people would be real surprised that,
but I thought it would be a good place for people to catch up on their
I spent Friday and Saturday at Jackson State Park and didn't see a single
waxwing. Today, Cedar waxwing's were there in good numbers. I then went to Crow
valley and saw them there as well, I didn't see them noted in anyone's posts
before this.
I'm thinking of starting a business here at Cr
Cyndy Johnson, Doug Witt and I saw the blue winged warbler at the same area,
around the Russian olives, at 4:15.
Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colorado
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> On May 27, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Joe Roller wrote:
>
> This continuing rarity was heard and briefly seen fro
I got a call from my handyman's wife, Janet, today announcing that they
had a white eyed vireo in their yard! That was quite the surprise to me since
they're not birders and I didn't think she would have any idea what a vireo
was. As it turns out, she said that a "couple of birders came t
I spent about an hour Friday afternoon looking for the vireo unsuccessfully. I
wouldn't say that this means he has gone for certain, but I should couldn't
find him. Deb Carstensen, Littleton, arapahoe County, Colorado
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> On Jun 3, 2014, at 10:10 PM, "'
Ted, you were asking what was up with the cackling geese hanging out here for
the summer.
I have up to 800 geese on the townhouse property where I live near Littleton in
the winter time, many of them being the lesser forms. By migration time, March
or so, all of those geese leave with just the
Five ruddy ducks were seen on Tuesday, 7/8, on Cooley Lake in South Platte
Park. This is a protected (restricted) area. There were two male and three
probable female, versus juvenile, ducks in the flock.
thanks, Deb Carstensen, Arapahoe County, Colorado
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I am currently at the intersection of Route and Garfield in Pueblo and there
are seven Mississippi kites here. They are up in the trees surrounding the
intersection.
Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe County, Colorado
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When talking about the Mississippi kites, I realized that I could add more to
the post. I friend of mine lives 3 blocks from this site and, in addition to
the kites that are here, he has kites nesting across the street from his house.
In addition, at the Routt and Garfield intersection , the
I'm glad to see someone having as much trouble with Siri as I do !
I thought God had a photographic memory and didn't need to take pictures (;
Deb Carstensen, Arapahoe county
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> On Aug 29, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Gary Koehn wrote:
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>
>
> George cresswell and I saw a bear an
This may not be exactly the same, but a couple of years ago, I had a great blue
heron walk into the pond where I live, wade out and then float in the water for
15 minutes or so. His wings for outstretched over the water.
I had some concerns that this was a suicidal gesture on the heron's pa
Were they uncomfortable with the depth of the water or the sudden realization
of the company they were keeping? Deb Carstensen, Littleton
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> On Sep 9, 2014, at 9:33 PM, Nick Komar wrote:
>
> I did observe an entire flock of white-faced ibis (same order as
> night-herons: C
I have been enjoying lesser goldfinch coming to my feeder, they rarely used my
feeders in the past. They tend to hang out in my cosmos on my patio.
Yesterday I saw one of them exhibiting begging behavior and , although I know
they nest late in the season, I was so surprised to see this behavior
For anyone who wants to get their waxwings on, I know a good place to look.
There is a tree that is currently heavily laden with red berries that robins
and waxwings love.
The tree is on West Ponds Circle 1/4 mile west of Platte Canyon Dr on the
south side of the road opposite the entranc
While birding at South platte park, a bird that had been identified as a snipe
by another Birder was watched. He had the exact gate of the Woodcock with His
rump obbing up-and-down continuously. He was going using his beak probe the
soil. Do snipes also have this type of walking behavior?
W
I had heard that Kathy reopened the store. Don’t know place or name
Deb Carstensen, Arapaho county
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> On Nov 3, 2019, at 7:33 AM, Chuck Aid wrote:
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> Hey, guys!
>
> Since we lost Kathy at S&S Optika, does anyone know of a place in the metro
> area that does realignme
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> On Nov 3, 2019, at 11:37 AM, Rachel Kolokoff Hopper
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> Maybe Blue Grosbeak?
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> On Nov 3, 2019, at 11:22 AM, 'Deborah Ca
I’ve seen amazing numbers of gulls flying north to south near Littleton, Platte
Canyon and Bowles, at sunset. Going to Chatfield? South Platte reservoir?
Deb Carstensen, Arapahoe county
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> On Feb 14, 2020, at 8:57 AM, 'The Nunn Guy' via Colorado Birds
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> Hi J
I have a double crested cormorant on the upper pond of Columbine lakes
townhomes. The crests were easily seen. I can’t remember ever having cormorants
this early!
I’ve also been having 9 hooded mergansers for a week on the upper pond. 1 male
and the rest females! Quite the harem.
I had to l
I thought I saw an osprey on the osprey tower at South Platte park on 3/21. I
only had my binoculars and didn’t feel completely sure about it and thought it
might be a bit early for one to be there.
Deb Carstensen, Arapahoe county
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> On Mar 21, 2020, at 2:42 PM, Chip Clouse
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