Thanks for continuing to share interesting back yard bird stories. Its a nice effort to combine all the results! My birds may not help lengthen the species count effort, but I persist!
My own Longmont yard is rather ordinary, the same ten main birds with a total list of about 48. But why do I persist in these little eBird lists for my yard? Of course I AM obsessed, we feed the birds, and I love seeing what the birds are doing today. So today, it was my flicker hitting a metal vent on my roof, to out perform the other flicker across the back fence. The goldfinches are back, and the robins are coursing through the big trees! I have been able to figure out ID marks for my yard juvenile Sharp-shinned Hawk with help from my friendly eBird reviewer, and now can focus on their pencil thin LEGS to be helpful to figure out Coopers versus Sharpie. I do get nice flyovers headed to Lagerman, but I am most interested in what the nuthatches and HOFI are up to today, what they sound like and look like, and I even enjoy my pair of starlings as they are my relatively rare bird! One year I had a Brown Creeper live here all winter, and I have even had a one week visit from a Hermit Thrush in Nov. 2020, and an occasional warbler in the fall. There is always hope, as the 2018 Blackburnian Warbler stake-out eBird hot spot is only a block or two from my yard! Pat Cullen Longmont, CO On Monday, March 18, 2024 at 11:30:17 AM UTC-6 Thomas Heinrich wrote: > Excellent--thanks Doug! No statute of limitations on this list :-) > Thanks for sharing! > --Thomas > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 11:00 AM Doug Ward <doug...@frontier.com> wrote: > >> Tom, >> >> >> >> Just back into cell/internet range and getting caught up on your “little” >> yard list project. It’s been fun reading folks encounters and amazing >> finds in their respective yards. Figured I wouldn’t have anything to add >> to the master list, but thanks to your needs list, I was wrong! Depending >> on your statute of limitations, you can add GREATER SAGE-GROUSE which used >> to come and feed under our feeder in the winter when we lived on a ranch in >> Axial Basin (south central Moffat Co.) in the late ‘70s. So now you are up >> to 386, truly an incredible number! >> >> >> >> Good Birding, >> >> Doug >> >> >> >> *From:* cob...@googlegroups.com <cob...@googlegroups.com> *On Behalf Of >> *Thomas >> Heinrich >> *Sent:* Monday, March 18, 2024 9:15 AM >> *To:* Colorado Birds <cob...@googlegroups.com> >> *Subject:* [cobirds] Colorado Combined Yard List update >> >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> Just a quick update: >> >> >> >> Total species now: 385 >> >> >> >> Total number of contributors: 60, make that 61 with Larry M >> >> >> >> Needs list total (see below): 135 species >> >> >> >> Still working on getting all who have contributed represented in the >> list. If you have any new species to add to the list, I'm happy to include >> them. I'll try to include those submitting species already listed from now >> forward, if I have time. Definitely have my hands full. But please keep >> posting--it's been really interesting and a lot of fun to read about >> everyone's experiences and to connect with others across the state (and out >> of state, as well). >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> Thomas >> >> >> >> >> >> Black-bellied Whistling-Duck >> >> Fulvous Whistling-Duck >> >> Pink-footed Goose >> >> Barnacle Goose >> >> Garganey >> >> Eurasian Wigeon >> >> Mexican Duck >> >> American Black Duck >> >> Mottled Duck >> >> Tufted Duck >> >> Harlequin Duck >> >> White-winged Scoter >> >> California Quail >> >> Ruffed Grouse >> >> White-tailed Ptarmigan >> >> Greater Sage-Grouse >> >> Gunnison Sage-Grouse >> >> Sharp-tailed Grouse >> >> Greater Prairie-Chicken >> >> Red-necked Grebe >> >> Groove-billed Ani >> >> Eastern Whip-poor-will >> >> Mexican Whip-poor-will >> >> Vaux's Swift >> >> King Rail >> >> Common Gallinule >> >> Purple Gallinule >> >> Yellow Rail >> >> Black Rail >> >> Limpkin >> >> Whooping Crane >> >> Black-bellied Plover >> >> American Golden-Plover >> >> Piping Plover >> >> Snowy Plover >> >> Eskimo Curlew >> >> Hudsonian Godwit >> >> Marbled Godwit >> >> Ruddy Turnstone >> >> Red Knot >> >> Ruff >> >> Sharp-tailed Sandpiper >> >> Curlew Sandpiper >> >> Dunlin >> >> Purple Sandpiper >> >> White-rumped Sandpiper >> >> Buff-breasted Sandpiper >> >> Semipalmated Sandpiper >> >> Short-billed Dowitcher >> >> Willet >> >> Red Phalarope >> >> Pomarine Jaeger >> >> Parasitic Jaeger >> >> Long-tailed Jaeger >> >> Long-billed Murrelet >> >> Ancient Murrelet >> >> Black-legged Kittiwake >> >> Ivory Gull >> >> Sabine's Gull >> >> Black-headed Gull >> >> Little Gull >> >> Ross's Gull >> >> Laughing Gull >> >> Short-billed Gull >> >> Western Gull >> >> Slaty-backed Gull >> >> Glaucous-winged Gull >> >> Kelp Gull >> >> Sooty Tern >> >> Least Tern >> >> Arctic Tern >> >> Royal Tern >> >> Sandwich Tern >> >> Black Skimmer >> >> Red-throated Loon >> >> Arctic Loon >> >> Pacific Loon >> >> Yellow-billed Loon >> >> Wood Stork >> >> Magnificent Frigatebird >> >> Brown Booby >> >> Neotropic Cormorant >> >> Brown Pelican >> >> Least Bittern >> >> Tricolored Heron >> >> Reddish Egret >> >> White Ibis >> >> Glossy Ibis >> >> Roseate Spoonbill >> >> Black Vulture >> >> White-tailed Kite >> >> Common Black Hawk >> >> Harris's Hawk >> >> Variable Hawk >> >> Red-shouldered Hawk >> >> Zone-tailed Hawk >> >> Snowy Owl >> >> Spotted Owl >> >> Barred Owl >> >> Red-breasted Sapsucker >> >> Crested Caracara >> >> Gyrfalcon >> >> Dusky-capped Flycatcher >> >> Brown-crested Flycatcher >> >> Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher >> >> Tropical Kingbird >> >> Couch's Kingbird >> >> Thick-billed Kingbird >> >> Fork-tailed Flycatcher >> >> Acadian Flycatcher >> >> Buff-breasted Flycatcher >> >> Gray Vireo >> >> Yellow-green Vireo >> >> Cave Swallow >> >> Cactus Wren >> >> Pacific Wren >> >> Sedge Wren >> >> Bendire's Thrasher >> >> Rufous-backed Robin >> >> Sprague's Pipit >> >> Cassia Crossbill >> >> Smith's Longspur >> >> Black-chinned Sparrow >> >> LeConte's Sparrow >> >> Nelson's Sparrow >> >> Baird's Sparrow >> >> Henslow's Sparrow >> >> Chihuahuan Meadowlark >> >> Louisiana Waterthrush >> >> Swainson's Warbler >> >> Lucy's Warbler >> >> Tropical Parula >> >> Grace's Warbler >> >> Golden-crowned Warbler >> >> Hepatic Tanager >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Thomas Heinrich >> Boulder, CO >> tehei...@gmail.com >> 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 cob...@googlegroups.com >> 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. >> Include bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate. >> * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/membership/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Colorado Birds" 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