[cobirds] Painted Redstart

Singing by bathroom of group campground Steve Mlodinow Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[cobirds] Around Weld County

Greetings All Seemingly everywhere had a goody today 1- Crow Valley Campground: the famed Painted Redstart, a female Townsend's Warbler, 2 Solitary Sands 2- Norma's Grove: 1 GC Kinglet 3- Private residence near Greeley: Harris's Sparrow 4- Windsor Lake: breeding plumaged RN Grebe 5- Union

[cobirds] Today in Yuma County

Greetings All Today, Sean Walters and I birded Yuma County (with a quick couple stops in Phillips and a visit to Red Lion SWA in Logan.) We had a resplendent 131 species Topping the list was a male SCARLET TANAGER in the town of Laird. Next best was a female SUMMER TANAGER at the Wray Fish

[cobirds] Crow Valley This Morning

Was hopping I spent the first 3 or so hours of the day wandering around Crow, part of which was spent in the company of Sue Riffe. Highlights included CANYON WREN Northern Parula Nashville Warbler Black-and-white Warbler Ovenbird Virginia's Warbler Plumbeous Vireo Green Heron Common Poorwill

[cobirds] Baca (and Cheraw, Otero) yesterday

Sorry for the delayed post. Yesterday, I started at Cottonwood Canyon. At the campground (2nd, as there really are two), there was a calling SUMMER TANAGER and a singing HOODED WARBLER at dawn. Then it went dead. I had 6 more warblers: one YB Chat, 3 Audubon's, 1 OC Warbler and a Wilson's.

[cobirds] Crow Valley Today

Greetings All The sum total of species at Crow alone today (not all seen by me) = 90+ Highlights in no particular order 7 Blackpoll Warblers 12 Northern Waterthrush 3 Ovenbirds 2 GC Thrush 6 Veery ~200 Swainson's Thrush 1 WT Sparrow 3 RB Grosbeak 1 Green Heron 1 RB Nut 2 WB Nut (eastern) 2 YB Chat

[cobirds] The last 48 hours: Yuma to Prowers

Greetings All Yesterday and today, Nick Moore and I prowled the eastern edge of the state from Yuma to Prowers. A detailed report would exhaust both reader and author, so highlights will be presented in more tabular form 14 May- all Yuma County Stalker Lake: Northern Waterthrush, 3 Blackpoll

[cobirds] Photo Highlights from mid-week

Greetings All My main photo highlights from mid-week are at https://www.flickr.com/photos/36088296@N08/ These start with photos of the Hairy x Downy Woodpecker male at Lamar Community College and then randomly proceed backward from Thursday to Tuesday. Included are YT Warbler, BH Vireo, 2 GC

[cobirds] Pine Warbler and Gray-cheeked Thrush at Crow Valley

These two birds lingered, instead of the party, night's south winds. PREWITT and Jackson were dead Good Birding Steve Mlodinow Longmont CO Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group

[cobirds] Nightjars

Greetings All The tail length of the Crow Valley nightjar is most difficult to ascertain in relationship to the wings as the tail was drooped straight downward. The crown (dark center, gray laterally) and to me the back pattern both look just fine for Common Poorwill and wrong for Whip. I

[cobirds] Caprimulgid Confusion

I've posted two of my pics of the Crow Valley nightjar at https://www.flickr.com/photos/36088296@N08/ To see the scap pattern of a Common Poorwill, gray with anchor shaped markings, go to http://www.utahbirds.org/birdsofutah/Profiles/CommonPoorwill.htm This photo also shows the throat and

[cobirds] NE CO today

Greetings Today Nick Moore and I birded from Wray, Yuma to Ovid, Sedgwick and Red Lion SWA, Logan The big highlights were 1) Least Tern at Lions Fishing Hole, Holyoke, Phillips 2) Alder Fly in Shelterbelt n of Wray Also of note for shorebird bereft Phillips were WR Sand, Stilt Sand, Least Sand,

[cobirds] BT Green Warbler at Chico = hybrid BT Green x Townsend's Warbler

Greetings All, Regarding Gary Koehn's superbly photographed bird at Chico... The streaked undertail coverts, relatively dark cheek, and black markings at edge of crown are all Townsen'ds traits or show Townsend's influence, whilst the yellowish patches near legs are those of a BT Green. This

[cobirds] Yuma and Phillips County Today

Greetings All Today felt like Seattle at times. Drizzly and without migrants. But there were some prime moments. At dawn, below the dam at Stalker Lake, Yuma, there was a PROTHONOTARY WARBLER and a PHILADELPHIA VIREO plus Black-and-white Warbler and American Redstart. At the Wray Fish

[cobirds] YT Warbler, Holyoke, Phillips

At cemetery singing this am. BW Hawk as well Steve Mlodinow Headed to Julesburg CO Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[cobirds] Eastern Towhee- Sedgwick

At DePooter Lake just s of Julesburg. See CFO county birding site. Bird was a female associating with a male Spotted and near a hybrid - go figure. You'll need to go over locked gate at end of road into DePooter. The birds were closeby. Not absolutely certain this is legal (ie, not

[cobirds] Eastern Wood-Pewee- Logan County

This evening at around 5 PM there was an Eastern WP at Duck Creek SWA, the Crook access (you don't have to be a thief or politician to enter) at the n end of CR 83, just e of Crook. It was along the creek near the parking area , but it flew as I aimed my camera , so I know not where it flew to.

[cobirds] Eastern Towhee and Alder Flycatcher - Logan

Eastern Towhee is with a hybrid and a Sptted Towhee at parking area 11 of Tamarack Ranch. The Alder flycatcher is singing at parking lot five. Both areas are e of road to Crook from I 76 Steve Mlodinow Longmont Colorado Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are

[cobirds] Playback

Excuse me. Please, give that holier-than-thou bit a break folks. Eastern Wood-Pewees are not rare birds, but a common species in North America. Rare in Colorado, and also likely a migrant, hardly disturbed by a couple plays of a recording. Cathy wasn't some idiot chaser trying to lure a bird

[cobirds] Navajo State Park, Archuleta County

Greetings All, I visited Navajo State Park in April and was impressed, though it was still early in season, and it was a cold and blustery day. I returned today, with a better sense of where to go, and I was most pleased (thanks to Tony L for putting this as a high priority on my SW CO trip).

[cobirds] Eastern YB Chat

Greetings All I was birding Park County today. Not the best day for that... But I digress. The bird I called an Eastern YB Chat is likely an intergrade between Eastern and Western. It had the very short white submalar that is the classic mark for Eastern. And a greenish back. Also a solid

[cobirds] eBird reporting and hotspots

Greetings COBRIDERS. Van Remsen, a former Coloradan and now one of the world's foremost ornithologists, was visiting here last week. In preparation for his visit, he used eBird to decide where to go. In the process of this, he noticed that many lists contained birds that were clearly not seen

[cobirds] Logan County; and Glenmere Heron Colony News

Greetings All Today, Sean Walters and I spent nearly 7 hours birding the semi-flooded and muddied location known as Tamarack Ranch. It was still impressively birdy, with most of the birds being in the semi-flooded riparian areas, with few birds in the shelterbelts. Note that there was

[cobirds] Yet more on... atypical BW Warbler songs

Greetings All Growing up in Chicago, where both GW and BW Warblers bred, sometimes separately, sometimes close to each other... I often heard both species give atypical songs. Indeed, we'd never ID the bird on song alone, and at that time, hybrids (phenotypic hybrids) were still rare... rare

[cobirds] BW Warbler continues in Jefferson County.

Greetings All The BW Warbler was still at the Welchester Tree Grant Park, at the far eastern end, spending most of its time right on the border of private property and the park. Its favorite tree was a Russian Olive just over the fence on private property. Its song is amazingly confusing when

[cobirds] Yuma. County and more

Today Nick Moore and I decided to see what was around Hale. The tastiest tidbits were in the woods at Hale Crossing at the NE corner of MM and 4. In those woods were a singing Summer Tanager, an imm Magnolia Warbler in rather worn plumage, and a singing Red-eyed Vireo (the vireo was

[cobirds] Latham Egret

Greetings All I truly believe the Latham egret naught but a most peculiar Snowy. I've posted photos and discussion at https://www.flickr.com/photos/36088296@N08/ Following the egret, there are also pics of the BW Warbler, a Logan County Glossy Ibis, a Eastern Kingbird devouring a Sphinx

[cobirds] Latham Egret

Greetings All I've heard back from 5 excellent birders, 4 or whom have had to deal with issues such as potential hybrid SNEG x LIEG as well as plain old Little vs Snowy Egret ID. All said, without hesitation, that the Latham bird is a Snowy. And.. when I look at the photo, I see naught that

[cobirds] Runt Cormorant and mid-week rarities

Greetings All I've posted photos of the small cormorant at Windsor Lake from yesterday. Input so far has been mixed, but I suspect the final opinion will be that it is a runt Double-crested. There is a discussion attached to the photos. Interestingly, one photo (not posted) shows a blue mouth

[cobirds] Jackson County today

Greetings All The day started with me searching for Boreal Owl, and after an hour, turning of Hwy 14 towards Rangers Lakes and hearing one singing of its own volition! I did most of what I did last year. Overall, duck numbers and grebe numbers were down substantially, perhaps due to rather

[cobirds] Yuma County YC Night Heron

Greetings All Today Sean Walters and I had a 1 yr old Yellow-crowned Night Heron at Stalker Lake on the n side. If you know Stalker, it was in the spot where shorebirds often are, tho the water level is a tad high now. Also at Stalker was an apparent Eastern YB Chat, 9 N Cardinals At the Wray

[cobirds] Sounds like....

Greetings All I've had a number of occurrences similar to Steve S's (not including actual mimids, of course) This year, I heard a Red-eyed Vireo doing splendid imitations of Eastern Wood-Pewee and Great Crested Flycatcher and back in Washington, on a couple occasions I've heard Cassin's

[cobirds] Fall Migration

Greetings All Has indeed begun, as well as dispersal of young. Two days ago I had several juv Snowy Egrets trying to convince me that they were, indeed, young Little Blue Herons. There are also juv California, RB, and Franklin's Gulls about. Shorebirds, of course, are well underway... if

[cobirds] Cheraw RT Hummungbird

Both BC and RT Hummingbirds ( non adult male. RT looks to be female) in Cheraw, Otero at corner of 3rd and Beymer. 3 feeders in yard. In sun late PM so may be better earlier. 3 feeders and two yippie dogs. May well be more than 2 humms total Steve Mlodinow Longmont CO Sent from my iPhone --

[cobirds] Smith Reservoir, Costilla County rarities

Greetings All Today, Smith Reservoir was filled with birds and good ones at that Highlights included an adult Caspian Tern, an adult breeding plumage Glossy Ibis, an apparent Glossy x WF Ibis (perhaps that Glossy had bred with WF Ibis in the San Luis Valley this year), and a male Mexican Duck.

[cobirds] NE CO Highlights

Greetings All I started today at Jackson Reservoir, then went to Prewitt, and eventually finished my day at Haxtun in Phillips County. Still fairly slow birding out there, but some nice highlights At the NE corner of Jackson Reservoir, Morgan, on a small crescent of mud, there were no

[cobirds] Jumbo Reservoir, Logan County

Greetings all Yesterday eve there was a Lesser Black-backed Gull and 2 Snow Geese at Jumbo Reservoir. Over 1000 pelicans were hounded relentlessly by two folks on jet skies and left for a period but returned later. There is shorebird habitat, but relatively few shorebirds. Finally, headed s

[cobirds] Washington County, yesterday

Greetings All Yesterday, Nick Moore, Sean Walters and I birded Prewitt Reservoir, Akron, and Last Chance The Prewitt Inlet Channel area had only one flock of birds, basically, but within that flock were 1 Cassin's Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Great Crested Flycatchers 1 Cordilleran (actually,

[cobirds] Canada Warbler and Arctic Tern at Prewitt Reservoir, Washington Co

Greetings All Today, I spend the morning at Prewitt, seeing 79 species despite only one duck species and 5 shorebirds. The water level is up, and shorebird habitat is nil. The inlet channel is still birdable, and nicely so. Mike San Miguel and I had, among other things, the following

[cobirds] Kiowa, Prowers, Bent Highlights

Greetings All Today I headed south to avoid winds. Mark Peterson told me to look at a couple reservoirs in Kiowa, long dry, but no so after recent deluges. The first sizable pond has no name... mostly a flooded farm area, just south of Eads. On west side of 287/385. I pulled over off the

[cobirds] Hale Ponds, Yuma County - Alder Flyatcher

Greetings All. I spent 5 or so hours wandering around the Hale Ponds area. Like most of NE Colorado, migrant passerines were few. I don't know what happened to our Yellow Warbler passage, that should have peaked a week ago, nor our Wilson's Warbler passage, which should be in full force right

[cobirds] Grasshopper Sparrow juvies and Hale Pond Alder Fly pics

Greetings All Juvie Grasshopper Sparrows can confound. I put a couple recent photos from the Pawnee on my Flickr site. Also, some distant but illustrative photos of the Hale Pond Alder from yesterday are there as well https://www.flickr.com/photos/36088296@N08/ Good Birding Steven Mlodinow

[cobirds] A Note about eBird Reports

Greetings All, As eBird reviewer for NE Colorado, I was obviously busy with this weekend's reports. Two major issues in reporting, not limited to this weekend, were recurrent. 1- For flagged species (based on rarity, not number), please give actual details. Notes like seen closely are not

[cobirds] Arctic Tern at Prewitt = Common Tern

Greetings All It terns out, I mean, turns out that I goofed up, to put it mildly. The tern that I ID'd as an Arctic was initially assumed (not just by me, but by several folks more expert that I consulted) to be a one-year old bird (known as Portlandica among terns). Though the head/bill

[cobirds] Baird's Sparrow

Did anyone look for the sparrow(s) today? Success? No? Thanks Steven Mlodinow Longmont CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[cobirds] Crow Valley, Weld, this morning - Eastern Wood Pewee

Greetings All On this soggy morn, I visited Crow Valley and wandered around for a couple hours. At the north end, where the group campground is, a bright Eastern Wood-Pewee was making forays until set upon by a Western Wood-Pewee. Much noise was made during the tussle, and afterwards, the

[cobirds] Kiowa and Bent Goodies

Greetings All On a whim I headed SE today. I started at Jett Res in Kiowa, which only had a few shorebirds unlike a week ago. Perhaps due to local Peregrine in attendance. Then went to Neenoshe locust grove where the scrubby locust, tamarisk and Russian Olives held 50 species of land birds.

[cobirds] Fallout

Greetings All Very interested in various reports from Front Range and elsewhere I have a bit of a theory about why the Plains have been so devoid of common migrants this fall. The mountains have been lush. Usually our mountains are arid in fall, and therefore, relatively devoid of buggy

[cobirds] Barr Lake, Adams, Today

Greetings All No spanking major highlights at Barr, but had 80 species in the morn. Water levels are low, so shorebirds are present, and I was actually a tad surprised not to find a jaeger given the number of gulls present. Highlights included 2 Sabine's Gulls (immatures) 1 LBB Gull

[cobirds] Bent Co Arctic Tern and BB Sandpiper

Greetings Today Nick Moore and I birded Kiowa and Bent Counties Jett Reservoir just s of Eads in Kiowa was filled with shorebirds but naught more interesting than 2 BB Plovers and 2 Pec Sands The Neenoshe Locust Grove was sluggish, but did have a cooperative Broad-winged Hawk and very bright

[cobirds] LT JAEGER- Boulder Res

Still present. Seen easily from n side. Also one Sanines Gull Steve Mlodinow Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[cobirds] Crow Valley, Weld, Highlights

Today I birded around Weld and bits of Larimer It seems as if shorebirds have temporarily pushed on and so have birds such as Sabines Gull Landbird movement, however, was evident at Crow, with birds flying in and out Highlights were led by an adult female YB SAPSUCKER, an adult BW HAWK, and a

[cobirds] Yellow-crowned Night Heron, Kiowa

Greetings All Nick Moore and I spent the day birding in Kiowa and Bent again. The main highlight was a first year YC Night Heron at Née So Pah Reservoir. To reach this spot, take US 287 S from Eads s to CR A ( Kiowa)/ CR WW (Bent). Turn to the west on this road that forms the county line. Go

[cobirds] Highlight Photos

Greetings All I just put on my Flickr site some bug and bird highlights from the weekend including the YC Night Heron https://www.flickr.com/photos/36088296@N08/ Cheers Steve Mlodinow -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To

[cobirds] Eastern Meadowlark - Weld, Mew Gull - Larimer

Greetings All I started the morning at CROW VALLEY. The campground was about as dead as could be except for a slew of BROAD-WINGED HAWKS - 5 1 adult light morph 3 imm light morph, 1 heavily marked, 2 lightly marked 1 dark morph, imm There was also a sapsucker along the west fence-line that is

[cobirds] Ravens

Greetings All I've just posted a number of raven pics, some known Chihuahuans, some presumed, and a bunch of Commons recently photographed at Tempel Grove (I guess presumed as well). I should also post some from the mountains for comparison. Will try to do so later. Flickr page is

[cobirds] Ravens

For greater ease, the ravens have been placed together at https://www.flickr.com/photos/36088296@N08/sets/72157648751323692/ Good Birding Steven Mlodinow Longmont, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this

[cobirds] Pac Loon Sedgwick and E Marsh Wren Yuma

Greetings all Passerine numbers were low in NE corner of CO today but Nick and I did manage to squeeze out a few birds The headliner was clearly an EASTERN MARSH WREN along the s edge of Stalker Lake before you get to the marsh. It sang and then called persistently allowing for some decent

[cobirds] Marshy Wren distribution

Greetings All The breeding distribution of Eastern Marsh Wren reaches west to cen. NE, cen. SD, and I believe, ND and Alberta. Given that we have so many records of other eastern birds with an even more easterly distribution, it seems rather unlikely that Eastern Marsh Wrens DON'T occur in

[cobirds] Weld County Today

Greetings All Today I wandered around SW Weld County The biggest highlight was an apparent YELLOW PALM WARBLER at Eaton Cemetery (which is just SE of town). The bird was hanging out deep within the cover of conifers, and eventually flew across the street to a private residence. Photos to be

[cobirds] Eastern Marsh Wren and Yellowish Palm Warbler Photos

Greetings All I've put up photos, with discussion, of the Eastern Marsh Wren. The Yellow Palm Warbler turns out to be a Yellowish Palm Warbler - either a bright Western Palm or a Yellow x Western Palm Warbler. Also up are a few other pics of interest from recent days, including an Emperor

[cobirds] Juv Mew Gull, Weld County

Along south side of Union Reservoir around 7:30 AM today. Also - late Cattle Egret at n. end of Boulder Res around 11 AM Good Birding Steven Mlodinow Longmont CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this

[cobirds] Hobby Hobby

Greetings All I've uploaded just under 20 photos from my weekend in Washington. My friend accurately predicted that a day of heavy rain and hard east winds followed by a night of 60+ mph winds from west would produce rarities on the outer coast. And, perched in the northwestern corner of the

[cobirds] Kiowa County Reservoirs and John Martin Res (Bent County) today

Greetings All A quick summary before bed Nee So Pah Reservoir had a Thayer's and a Mew Gull today, both juvs (well, actually, Mew transitioning from juv to first winter) + a tardy BW Teal Neegronda and Neenoshe were dead Jett Reservoir had a moderate amount of ducks, but nothing of true note

[cobirds] Union Resevoir

Greetings All I birded Union Reservoir before and after work. Huge numbers of birds. In AM, a female Surf Scoter and a Common Loon. In PM, a RT Loon, apparently the same Surf Scoter, an ad male WW Scoter and at least one imm/juv Mew Gull Good Birding Steven Mlodinow Longmont CO Sent from my

[cobirds] Boulder white winged crossbills

Corner of 76th and Brockway. Flew from yard ensconced in Spruce at north east corner Steven Mlodinow Longmomt Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from

[cobirds] Mag Hummingbirds

Greetings All So many thanks to Adam for his gracious hosting. As for the Magnificent visitor, outcome will never be known. However, note that Magnificent Hummingbirds are one of the most regular wintering hummingbirds at higher elevations in SE Arizona's mountains, often surviving prolonged

[cobirds] Around Longmont this morning

Greetings All Hit a few reservoirs before the winds kicked up Union (WELD) was still fabulously birdy, with many gulls, mergansers and goldeneye. Highlights there included: 3rd year (ongoing) GLAUCOUS GULL 4 Thayer's Gulls (3 adults, 1 juv) 1 PACIFIC LOON 1 Common Loon Ish Reservoir

[cobirds] Weld County today

Windsor Reservoir was astonishingly packed with birds. At least 50k Cackling Geese, maybe 100k. Nearly 10k Common Mergs. A couple thousand gulls. Due to numbers and distance, hard to sort thru. 7 LBB Gulls and 5 THAYER'S the rarest Glenmere Park was a potpourri of more montane birds, the

[cobirds] Bent and Crowley Highlights

Greetings All Today David Dowell and I started our day on the dam at John Martin Reservoir and finished at Lake Henry in Crowley County Highlights were JOHN MARTIN 2 ad male WW Scoters 1 subad LBB Gull 3 juv Thayer's Gulls 1 snappy Blue Morph Ross's Goose 1 Ross's x Cackling Goose ~120,000 Snow

[cobirds] Thanksgiving weekend highlights and Larimer County Gulls

Greetings All Photos of some of the highlights from Thanksgiving Weekend are at https://www.flickr.com/photos/36088296@N08/ This includes birds from ducks to finches, but there are a lot of gull photos including a GW Gull and a GW x Herring Gull. The gull photos are mostly from the

[cobirds] YB LOON AT BOYD LAKE

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[cobirds] From Red Rocks to Aurora

Greetings All Yesterday I started at Red Rocks, spreading seed out at twilight. For the first 30 minutes thereafter, juncos, the WT Sparrow and the ad GC Sparrow all came out to play. Then the jays took over. Dozens upon dozens of scrub jays dominated the place, causing minimal activity among

[cobirds] Red Rocks

Greetings I had the company of Michael Kessig and Dan Stringer at Red Rocks, which I failed to mention. Best find of the day. Two fun companions Steve Mlodinow Longmont Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To

[cobirds] Glenmere Park

Greetings All I spent about 3 hours birding around Glenmere Park, a neighborhood rife with coned conifers. I had, in about 3 hours 23 RB Nuts 2 Mountain Chickadees 4 Brown Creepers 12+ type 3 Red Crossbills (at intersection of 14th and 17th nne of the park) 1 male PURPLE FINCH in riparian area

[cobirds] Photos needed

Greetings All A few photos are needed for the spring North American Birds column . Rich M, do you have a photo (or does someone else) of the DeWeese reservoir Laughing Gull. Mark P, do you have any shots of the ZT Hawk to contribute? Does anyone else? Cathy S - photos of the Painted Redstart?

[cobirds] More photos

Hello Again We could also use photos of the Boulder Black Phoebe and any RL Hawk after 21 April. Date and location with all photos, please Best Wishes Steven Mlodinow Longmont, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To

[cobirds] Larimer Landfill

Greetings All This afternoon went to Larimer County Landfill with Georgia Doyle and David Wade. My apologies to Nick Komar. The bird I had called a Thayer's Gull was an adult Iceland as he'd thought. Also, there was a bird that looked excellent for a first cycle Western Gull. Will post photos

[cobirds] Western Gull - NOT

Greetings All So, being able to sit on a comfy chair and dissect marks one by one, the apparent Western Gull at Larimer Landfill is apparently not a Western Gull. Believe it or not, it is likely a LBBG. We (mostly me error) were misled by the bird's obvious secondary skirt (see Sibley for

[cobirds] Iceland Gull Boulder

The 2nd yr Iceland Gull first found by Dave Dowell is currently at Lagerman Steve Mlodinow Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[cobirds] Larimer Landfill Gulls

Greetings All Sean and Megan (sorry if I spelled your name wrong) Walters and I spent 3 fun filled hours at the Larimer County Landfill Again, upon visiting, remember to check in at the office, and stay far away from any moving vehicles, some of which could crush your car like Stalin's heel

[cobirds] Weld County Today

Greetings All Today I birded SW Weld County Union Reservoir 7 tardy Western Grebes Nearly 2000 Common Mergs Firestone Gravel Pits One tardy Western Grebe Imm KRIDERS REDTAIL Weld Co Rd 11 s of 119 Hybrid G WF Goose x Cackling Goose G WF Goose Frederick Rec Area GREEN TAILED TOWHEE GRAY HEADED

[cobirds] Stub-tailed Wrens at Canon City

Greetings All The presence of multiple stub-tailed (Winter and Pacific) Wrens at the Riverwalk would not be surprising. Indeed, Shawn and I thought we heard a Winter Wren, but could never get close enough to be sure of what we were hearing. Wrens may sing each other's songs, as such is

[cobirds] ST WREN PHOTOS and Allenspark, Boulder today

Greetings All Joey, I was referring to the Canon City photos linked to by Brandon. At Allenspark this morning, a flock of 75 rosy finches with 10 Brown cappeds and on Black appeared briefly, flying overhead for several minutes and alighting for a minute or two at Fawn Brook Inn before

[cobirds] Recent Boulder County Highlights

Greetings All Today, there was an adult KRIDER'S Red-tailed Hawk at the NW corner of County Line Rd and Hwy 119, likely the same bird that bred at Sandstone and has been seen around Union, across the street in Weld Nearby, along the railroad tracks that cross County Line Rd (also known as

[cobirds] SE Colorado Yesterday

Greetings All Yesterday, Nick Moore and I birded from Negronda/Neesopah (Kiowa) to John Martin (Bent) to Henry/Holbrook (Crowley/Otero) Negronda, Neesopah, Jett Reservoirs all were mostly frozen, but were packed with birds in the small areas of open water. Nothing of interest though beyond

[cobirds] Wandering Weld Yesterday

Greetings All Yesterday, Nick Moore and I wandered about much of western/central Weld County. The weather, was suboptimal but not too intrusive The Pawnee had, gasp!, very very little snow on the ground, so larks and such were not pushed to roadsides. We did still have a couple nice (20-50

[cobirds] Rusty Blackbird - Weld County

Greetings All This eve, just about 5pm, there were 9 male Rusty Blackbirds feeding along the St Vrain just on the Weld County side of County Line Road. Good Birding Steve Mlodinow -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To

[cobirds] Weld Today

Greetings All I spent this morning birding a few select spots in Weld Crow Valley was dead, excepting a singing male N CARDINAL at the sw corner. Lotsa water in the creek, so hope for later on. Weld Co Rd 59 has some shorebird habitat, but no shorebirds (except breeders) Loloff had no

[cobirds] Lincoln County, today

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

[cobirds] No Lucy's at Eaton today

Spent 90 minutes at birdy but Luciless Eaton Cemetery. Crow Valley very birdy but mostly Spizella sparrows and YR Warblers. Did have a GRAY CHEEKED THRUSH as main highlight. That and two Bufflehead in flooded parking area. Bring high boots if you are going to bird Crow Valley Steve Mlodinow

[cobirds] Eaton, Weld Lucy's

Hello All A key point is that the Lucy's was singing frequently around noon today. I was there yesterday around 10AM, and on several occasions, from the correct spot, thought I heard a Lucy's Warbler. Since I couldn't find the bird, I thought I was just hallucinating, but probably not In any

[cobirds] Weld County yesterday, part 2

Greetings All So, yesterday I finished with 122 species just birding Crow Valley, Eaton Cemetery and Stewarts' Pond/Latham/Beebe Draw and finishing my day at 3:30. 130 would have been pretty easy to attain. And this was with only 4 warbler and 1 vireo species. It shows what this region can

[cobirds] Leukering and Mlodinow in FL, March 2015

Greetings All For those who care, Tony Leukering and I did a whirlwind trip around central and southern Florida during late March, racking up 145 species or so of birds as well as a goodly number of Dragons and Damsels and creatures of the scaly kind. Highlights, including a series of photos

[cobirds] Neotropic Corm adult

At gravel ponds in east side of Windsor south of road in flock of 350+ mergansers. Turn south at 17th from highway east of town and park at end of road Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from

[cobirds] Neotropic Corm

Gravel pits are as you are heading WEST not EAST from town Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[cobirds] Weld County Yesterday

Greetings All. The NEOTROP CORMORANT was the only cormorant on the pond when I was there, and it was swimming amongst an enormous flock of RB Mergansers (200) and Common Mergansers (nearly 100). That which caught my eye initially, as I was busy tallying mergs, was that it was about the same

[cobirds] Last Week in NW Colorado

Greetings All Sorry for the delayed, very delayed, post. Alec Hopping had suggested a summer trip to search for California Quail in Colorado. They occur in goodly numbers close to the CO border in Moffat. Gambel's Quail that far north are scarce in CO, so any quail in Moffat or Rio Blanco

[cobirds] Migration

Greetings All A friend sagely pointed out that I misspoke in my last post. Southbound migration has begun... which was taking place, yesterday, during what humans call spring. More specifically, when I was speaking of the yellowlegs, directed migration had begun. Directed migration is taking

[cobirds] Ravens

For those of you interested in raven ID, I tweaked my Flickr album's info a bit and added some interesting pics of young Commons from Rio Blanco County https://www.flickr.com/photos/36088296@N08/sets/72157648751323692 Good Birding Steven Mlodinow Longmont CO -- You received this message

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