On Thursday morning, Oct. 21, a lone juvenile sandhill crane fed in
the winter wheat field west of our home. At the same time a great
blue heron perched on a dead cottonwood not far away. They both flew
off while I was fiddling with a camera; my husband did get good pix.
We both stayed
Paula Hansley just phoned to say the crane is feeding in the stubble
wheat field just west of the road leading to south teller lake
trailhead. I can actually see it from our front window at the moment!
Carol Cushman
East Boulder County
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At 7:45 this morning the juvenile sandhill crane was feeding in his
usual spot just west of the entry road to south teller lake
trailhead. AND a brilliant morning rainbow, with a partial double,
made a complete arc across the sky. The crane has now been hanging
around here since last
The lone juvenile sandhill crane just flew in landed at its usual
feeding spot just west of the entry road to Teller Lakes South. This
road is about halfway between 75th 95th and heads north from
Arapahoe Road in East Boulder County. Since last Thursday I have
usually seen it come in
Paula Hansley just phoned asked me to post her sighting of a
possible gyrfalcon, gray adult. It was quite large with a light back
a white head and looked white when it was sitting. It was on a
light post near the Louisville P.O. on Dahlia between Cherry Dillon
Roads; then it flew east.
The pair of wintering bald eagles have returned to Stearn's Lake. A
nice couple pointed them out this morning said the eagles returned
2 days ago. Also saw a prairie falcon, red-tailed hawk, tons of
Canada geese shovelers.
One of the things I was thankful for on Thanksgiving was the
To add to the current thread on alerting the local community to the
economic clout of birders. Years ago when we visited a friend,
Pam Piombino, who lived in Texas at the time, she said always wear
your binoculars when you go into a restaurant or store. That way the
local people may
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From: Ann Bird ann_b...@earthlink.net
Date: December 7, 2010 7:12:59 PM MST
To: R Carol Cushman r.cush...@colorado.edu
Subject: Re: birder economics 101
Reply-To: ann_b...@earthlink.net
Hello Carol,
I can't post to CO birds because I am not a member so the following
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My digest box was empty this morning (Jan. 5) even though the heading said 16
messages. Couldyou please check resend?
Thanks, Carol Cushman
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Does anyone have experience using Sibley's eGuide for North American Birds on
Kindle Fire? It was recently redesigned to work on IPad, but I can't determine
whether it will work on the new Kindle Fire. Any tips or info will be much
appreciated. I'm especially hoping that it can be used in the
The white-throated swifts were back at Eldorado State Park (south of Boulder)
and easily seen from the Fowler Trail on March 28.
Carol Cushman
East Boulder County
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Yellow-headed blackbirds (FOS for me) were singing (or whatever
they do) displaying in pond near our home in East Boulder County
this morning. Also saw FOS Swainson's hawk at Sandstone Ranch with
Ellen Klaver in Longmont on Sunday.
Carol Cushman
East Boulder County
Paula Hansley just phone asked me to post that she is watching a
black phoebe on S. Boulder Road. It's about 1/2 mile east of
Cherryvale on the south side of the road near an enclosed bus stop,
and flying back forth from a chain link fence. She is also seeing
lots of mountain bluebirds
From north-central Boulder County: Linda Andes George asked me to
post the following message as she can no longer post to cobirds:
I've had a housewren in the yard, multiple tree
swallows scouting the birdhouses and being routed by a miserable but
stout
little house sparrow, and many
This afternoon just south of the Stearn's Lake on Cradleboard Trail
(Broomfield County) a great horned owl attacked an adult bald eagle
that had landed in the owl’s nest tree where another owl sat on a
nest. The eagle flew to ground near a fence stayed there for over
an hour looking
One lone male yellow-headed blackbird arrived yesterday at a pond
near our home in East Boulder County; a neighbor had called a few
hours earlier to say one was at her feeder. Blue-winged teal were at
this pond last week but I haven't seen them now for a few days.
A cinnamon teal was at
A few months ago there were several posts regarding birds using their wings to
climb trees. This morning I watched a just-fledged kestrel use its wings to
help it climb up a cottonwood trunk.
About two weeks ago I watched a cheater male Bullock's oriole peck through
the base of a trumpet vine
A flock of American white pelicans has been floating fishing at Teller Lake
(just north of Arapahoe) since November 6 when I counted 45. By Nov. 10 there
were 74. They are still there this morning though I didn't go close enough to
count. According to Holt's Birds of Colorado, most pelicans
The Northern cardinal is still in the vicinity of Hawthorne Gulch in Boulder.
Steve Jones, Shelley Schlender, I saw it this morning scrabbling under the
hawthorns as soon as we reached the usual spot by the pump house. Later it flew
overhead down the gulch. Red bird against white snow--heart
We're trying to decide whether to get an Android or an IPhone. All our birding
friends seem to use the IPhone birding apps with great success. However our
provider (Credo) doesn't provide service for IPhone, only the Androids. So, if
we choose IPhone, we'll have to switch providers. Does anyone
A huge thank-you to all of you who responded to my RFI. All that useful
information guided us to decide on an Android--Samsung Galaxy--as almost all
the cobirders seemed happy with their apps.
Carol Cushman
East Boulder County
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Paula Hansley just phoned and asked me to post that she is watching a singing
blue-winged warbler in Como, Park County, just off 285 in South Park. The
warbler is by a pink house.
Carol Cushman
East Boulder
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Yesterday my husband I watched a pair of American 3-toed woodpeckers
hammering feeding, one above the other, from about 10 feet away near upper
end of the Jean Lunning Trail above Brainard Lake. We had a clear view of the
male's golden patch of the 3 forward toes splayed against the dead
This is to answer Ted Floyd's posting on immense roosts (he wondered where the
common grackles were roosting). Most of the ten (or twenty) thousand common
grackles are roosting at Sombrero Marsh where 63rd street dead-ends, one block
south of Arapaho in Boulder. I watched them with Steve Jones,
Has anyone seen the mobs of great tailed grackles that usually appear at
Stearn's Lake, Boulder County, in winter? Or, has anyone seen any great tailed
grackles yet this winter?
Thanks,
Carol Cushman, East Boulder County
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5 green-winged teal, FOS for me, were swimming about in Cottonwood Marsh,
Walden Ponds, this afternoon along with the usual golden-eyes, wigeons,
mallard, ring-necks, & gadwalls. If the green-wings are here, can the cinnamon
be far behind? I keep checking Boulder Creek by the 75th St. bridge
Yesterday morning Scott Severs, Shelley Schlender, & I saw a flock of red
crossbills and 4 Abert's squirrels near the picnic area at Betasso Open Space
off of Sugarloaf Road, north of Boulder Canyon. One brilliant red male
crossbill perched at the tip of a ponderosa pine while his mate sat in
I was delighted to get so many helpful responses to my request for info on
returning mountain bluebirds. I had not realized that most January sightings
are probably overwintering birds. I'm also happy to now have an easy way to
access EBird.
Thank you, everyone,
Carol Cushman,
East Boulder
We are hoping to go to either the Bear River Refuge in Utah or somewhere in
Idaho to see migrating swans in November. Does anyone have any suggestions or
tips about the best places to go to see this amazing happening? Or the best
time to see it? Any advice will be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Inspired by Bill Kaempfer's & Peter Burke's great reports from Valmont Res,
Maureen Lawry and I walked up the little hill west of the Open Space offices
off 75th Street yesterday, Jan. 20. 3 tundra swans were snoozing in open water
at the southeast inlet; 11 bald eagles (both adults &
A brown thrasher has been sporadically scrabbling under our mugo pine & bird
feeders since Oct. 30. Seen almost daily but only briefly.
Carol Cushman
East Boulder County
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Elizabeth Mekkelsen’s loving heart stopped on May 23 as she sat in a chair
looking out the window looking at birds. Interested in everything in the
natural world, Elizabeth lived a rich life for 104 years and 3 months, and was
her usual lucid, cheerful self to the end. Many old-timers in the
Around 11:30 this morning a lone sandhill crane flew over East Boulder Trail
at the bridge over Boulder Creek heading west.
A brown thrasher has been hanging around and sporadically foraging under our
feeder, sheltering under a mugo pine, since October 30. Very aggressive, it
chases away the
If you enjoy Dave Leatherman’s witty, informative posts on CoBirds, you might
also enjoy his gorgeous photos in his “Hungry Birds” exhibit at the CU Museum,
open daily, 15th & Broadway, Boulder. There’s also a nice fossil exhibit on the
main floor that includes a cast of archaeopteryx and a
Hi friends,
Just a reminder that we’re meeting at noon next Tuesday (Election Day!!) at my
home, 8495 Arapahoe, half-way between 75th & 95th on North side of road. Carol
M & Pam, We’ll miss you but look forward to hearing about your wonderful
travels—would the rest of you let me know whether
My computer just went bananas & sent a message intended for a small book club
to CoBirds & to the newspaper. Sigh.
Sorry,
Carol Cushman
Not hosting a big meeting on Election Day
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Repercussions continue. Joe Roller warns that you should not reply to Cobirds
or hit "reply all” to my original message or this embarrassing thread will
continue!
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Heard & saw 5 sandhill cranes flying south (wrong way Corrigan??) over our
house in east Boulder County about 3 p.m. That makes doing garden cleanup less
of a chore. I’m posting this because I miss the messages we used to get on
Cobirds about fairly common birds like the sandhill cranes.
Carol
On Tuesday an American dipper was singing madly and blinking his white eyelid
in Boulder Creek under the 30th Street bridge in Boulder. There was some debris
I thought might be the beginning of a nest on one of the ledges, so I hope he
will stay around for awhile. The song was so loud I heard
Since I enjoy reading “firsts” from other folk, here are my First of Year
birds, butterflies, & blooms for Boulder County. Every day there seems to be
something new.
April 3, mourning dove at our home on East Arapahoe
April 5, yellowlegs (greater?) and snipe just east of our home on East
Thanks, Mary Kay, for your signs of spring. On Wednesday at our home east of
Boulder 2 meadowlarks were perched together, one singing, and magpies were
breaking twigs off our black locus and carrying them into the blue spruce.
Also, two cottontails sit a few feet apart, staring fixedly at each
I once identified a floating beer bottle as a cinnamon teal. A real, honest to
goodness snowy owl, I said, was just a piece of styrofoam until Steve Jones
showed it to me in his scope!
Carol Cushman
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Hi Alison,
I’m sort of a lurker on CoBirds and enjoy reading RBA, but mostly I like the
stories people tell and alerts to first of season birds and migration notes. So
I would miss RBA if it is discontinued, but I hope CoBirds will evolve and keep
going. Thank you for all you have done and are
I would be happy to pay for access to the SWAs, but I do balk at giving them my
social security #, thereby risking identity theft. Several years ago when I
objected, the bureaucrat I talked to insisted they needed it to track down
dead-beat dads who refused to pay child support. ? Last
It’s spring at Stearns Lake! On Saturday morning Scott Severs and I watched the
bald eagles copulating near their Stearns Lake nest. The geese were creating
their usual wonderful cacophony, and redwing blackbirds joined in with their
kongkaree songs. As I drove out along the dirt road, 6
Bluebirds everywhere: perching on yuccas, hovering in the air, foraging on the
ground! More than 20 mountain bluebirds were seen by Linda & Jean-Pierre
George, my husband Glenn, and me March 2 near the Joder Ranch parking lot off
Hwy. 36.
What an incredible birding week this is starting out to
Thanks to kind and gentle emails from Christian Nunes, Nick Komar, and Dave
Leatherman I now think that the bird I saw near Marshall Reservoir was a sage
thrasher, not a Swainson’s thrush. My impression was that the tail was too
short and the bill too straight to be a thrasher, but after
A Swainson’s thrush was perched on the fence along the spur road leading west
toward the barricade to Marshall Lake off 66th yesterday morning. I assume it
was migrating, but that open grassland area seems like the wrong place for a
woodland bird. I wonder if it got pushed down by the NCAR
Several expert birders have said that a Swainson’s thrush should still be in
Columbia. Unfortunately, I did not get a photo nor did the bird sing. When I
first saw it before putting the binoculars on it, I thought briefly of a
thrasher. However, the beak, the tail, everything was wrong for a
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