Thanks for the interesting fun, Thomas, I have a cabin in Empire. At 8,600’ and with just 300 residents, it’s not very rural. My total is 71 for 16 years of too-frequent visits. I’m answering now, as it’s time to get over my jetlag. My most interesting month was from Sept 19, 2020 to October 3, when I saw 4 different jays—Pinyon, Blue, Woodhouse’s Scrub, and of course Steller’s. Earlier in the year, a Lewis’s Woodpecker was # 100 for the Clear Creek County, drinking from my birdbath. Thanks for Mark Obmascik for alerting me that a Rose-breasted Grosbeak was at my feeder. A Sagebrush Sparrow, first spotted on the first of CFO’s Big Day for conservation, was close enough to spot it from the yard. Larry Modesitt
> On Mar 17, 2024, at 8:33 AM, 'Chris Petrizzo' via Colorado Birds > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Thomas and everyone, > Thanks for the fun thread. I see that I can help you "tick off" one of the > currently missing species: Tundra Swan. https://ebird.org/checklist/S61420925 > I live on the edge of the Lac Amora Open Space in Broomfield at about 5400’, > and am fortunate to have a prairie dog colony outside my backyard, and am in > close proximity to Stearns Lake in Boulder County, just to the north. > I’m a pretty dedicated yard lister, and in the 5 years I’ve been using eBird > to keep my yard list, I’ve logged 130 species, including all three species of > bluebirds, both shrikes, the four hummers, over a dozen species of sparrows, > both waxwings, and just about all the diurnal raptors that typically occur in > CO. > My most memorable yard bird was the time I looked outside to see what > appeared to be a Redtail sitting on my back lawn. This was a bit strange, and > as I stared at the bird, it became apparent it was too big to be a hawk, and > I realized there was a Golden Eagle on my lawn. I took photos from the house > at first, and then steeped outside, assuming it would fly away, but it did > not. It became apparent the bird was injured, so I captured it (I used to > volunteer for Birds of Prey Foundation), and brought it to Birds of Prey > https://ebird.org/checklist/S165144647 > > Probably my rarest bird occurred when we had just returned from Australia, > and I was sort of lamenting to my wife how in general, the birds in Colorado > are so much less colorful than the ones we’d been seeing on our trip, when I > looked out my living room window to see a male Scarlet Tanager in the yard. > That was good fun. https://ebird.org/checklist/S56817229 > Chris Petrizzo, Broomfield > > On Monday, March 11, 2024 at 10:40:41 AM UTC-6 Thomas Heinrich wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Every now and then one of us will share the excitement of adding a rarity or >> new species to a yard list, report yard list totals, or comment on local >> trends. And some of the lists, and variety of species, are really impressive >> (e.g. David Suddjian's, Gary Lefko's). >> >> Yellow Grosbeak, Pyrrhuloxia, Streak-backed Oriole, Long-billed Thrasher, >> Costa's Hummingbird, Laurence's Goldfinch, and even Anhinga come to mind as >> rarities that have shown up in or been observed from yards. (Perhaps the >> recent Brambling, too?) >> >> As a pretty obsessive yard lister (i.e. binocs always on, camera ready when >> outdoors, much of the time indoors too), I often wonder about others' >> experience with yard-listing. >> >> How long have you been keeping your list? >> What's your style of yard listing: casual, mainly feeder watching, moderate, >> dedicated, obsessed? >> How many species? >> Rarest, or favorite species? >> Most memorable experience? >> Location/habitat: urban, suburban, rural, etc? >> >> And the big question: if we tallied up all our yard lists, how close to >> Colorado's 520 species could we get? >> >> It seems likely that certain families would be less well-represented; >> shorebirds, waterfowl, and gulls, for example. But with neighborhoods lining >> bodies of water such as Boyd Lake, Lake Loveland, Marston Reservoir, Jackson >> Lake, and MacIntosh Lake (in Boulder), among many others, many of those >> species theoretically could have been counted on a yard list. Maybe some >> lucky person living on the shores of Boyd Lake has Long-tailed Jaeger, >> Slaty-backed Gull, and Garganey on their yard list! >> >> Wishing all good health, good birding, and an exciting Spring migration! >> >> --Thomas Heinrich >> >> >> My answers to the questions above: >> 15 years >> Dedicated to obsessive >> 152 species >> Wood Thrush, Yellow-throated Warbler, N Cardinal, Common Redpoll, Bohemian >> Waxwing >> Watching spring raptor migration from the roof-top, 35 Broad-winged Hawks >> among 130 raptors of 10 species on one high-flow day (4/18/2020) >> Interface between suburban and open space, base of foothills, el. 5600' >> >> -- >> Thomas Heinrich >> Boulder, CO >> [email protected] <> >> www.pbase.com/birdercellist <http://www.pbase.com/birdercellist> > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Colorado Birds" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds > * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. 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