Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: March 3, 2012
e-mail: rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Satuday, March 3, 2012,
sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory. If you are phoning in a message, you
A Northern Flicker has been drumming on my chimney cap for the past week.
A flock of 10 American Goldfinches hit my feeders as they moved through a
few days ago and some of the males had squarish bright yellow spots right
at their wrists, looked like of a bunch of second lieutenants.
Here is the Denver Post article http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_20092428
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Also, check out Nathan.s blog http://earbirding.com/blog/archives/3602.
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Todd Deininger
Longmont, CO
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And I saw my first one also this past week in Colorado Springs at
Mesa Fillmore.
Diana Beatty
Colorado Springs, CO
On Mar 2, 9:43 am, Nicolle Martin nicolle.h.mar...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting ... I just saw my first one as well in Lakewood at Wadsworth
285.
Nicolle Martin
Littleton,
Good Morning,
A bit on the breezy side this morning, but lots of birds at the Red
Rocks feeders this morning. The Golden-crowned Sparrow showed up
right at 6:45 A.M. under the upper apple tree. Did not see any Rosy-
Finches. My guess is we won't see any more Rosy-Finches at Red Rocks
Cobirders,
I second Todd Deininger's recommendation to check out the Denver Post article
at www.denverpost.com and Nathan Pieplow's blog at www.earbirding.com. The
Denver Post lead story was great news to us at RMBO. It was extremely well done
and accurate. Of the 616 birds that breed in
Greetings All,
First, for the positive data.
I had a lovely walk around St Vrain State Park before the wind started up.
There are a goodly number and variety of in Pelican Pond, approaching that of
Cottonwood Marsh at Walden Ponds. The only rarity was a MALLARD x GADWALL (yes,
another),
Dinosaur Ridge
Colorado, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 02, 2012
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Hi COBirders,
Observations from my unofficial, Hawkwatch on Colorado Springs Westside -
Mountain Shadows neighborhood, North of Garden of the Gods, against the Dakota
Hogback.
Wed 2/29/12 - Red-tailed Hawks-3, probably all residents at this point. Also a
distant, quick view of what might
Jeanne just spotted our first Mourning Dove since fall at our home feeder. That
gave us the trifecta today - Mourning, Collared, and White-winged.
It must be spring!
Good birding!
Mel Goff
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For those of you interested in the citation for the Black Swift paper
see below. I am happy to have been able to contribute to this paper
by conducting the analysis and GIS work.
Beason, J.P., C. Gunn, K.M. Potter, R.A. Sparks, and J.W. Fox. 2012.
The Northern Black Swift: Migration Path and
Cobirders,
Today we decided to go up to Allenspark and see if we could find some
Evening Grosbeaks.
The day then turned out to a listing day (with a total of 72) when we
were stopped by the migrating flocks of ducks at Ryan's Gulch Res.
Here are the places and birds we saw today:
Ryan's Gulch
Dinosaur Ridge
Colorado, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 03, 2012
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Hi Birders
After a miss this morning, I found one American Dipper in Clear Creek,
just downstream from the Lowell Blvd. bridge (Adams Co) at about 5
p.m. High winds and cold. Yesterday, Mar. 2, I saw two dipper in the
same location.
Bob Canter
Denver CO
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