Compiler: Ira Sanders
Date: March 13, 2012
e-mail: rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, March 13, 2012, sponsored
by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory. If you are phoning in a message, you can skip the reco
Jeff et al.,
This sounds like a remarkable observation, and it far surpasses anything in
my experience, even though I've seen Cassin's Finches in what I thought
were large singing flocks at this time of year (dozens of birds, but still
less than 100). However, the Birds of North America account o
Hi all,
I looked at Coryell Ranch ponds at dusk this evening, hoping to count a
record number of Barrow's Goldeneyes..
Pah.. there were none at 7.25pm, just four Ring-necked Ducks and a Muskrat !
and a backhoe, parked by a big pile of freshly dug dirt next to one of the
ponds..
I headed up
Doug Kibbe and I went to NECO today, March 12:
Red Lion: Adult Peregrine Falcon
Two Tundra Swans continue
Jumbo: Great Black-backed Gull, first cycle, obligingly flew back and forth
across Logan-Sedgwick line
Lesser Black-backed Gull 2
Hedgerow S of Jumbo along County Roa
Dinosaur Ridge
Colorado, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 12, 2012
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SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total
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Black Vulture0 0
Yesterday we were visiting friends who live on Ptarmigan Golf Course - in
Fort Collins (east of I-25 / 392) and just north of the edge of the golf
course is, what has become an annual nesting of a pair of Eagles.
They have returned and we watched them in their nest (cottonwood tree) just
north
I drove west down County Road 16 from Hwy 287 until it dead-ended. From
there, I had a vantage point over Bud Mielke Reservoir and saw a swan on
the west side of the lake that did not appear to be a mute swan.
Unfortunately, I did not have my scope so I could not tell for sure. As I
was leaving,
Hi Cobirders. Most birders get to come across a bird they can't
identify even if they see it well at least a few times in birding.
I have seen quite a few. Friday afternoon I noticed at the feeder
between the Kitchen window and the Choke-cherry tree a
tiny bird about 4" which was all very dar
While travelling back from San Luis Valley on Sunday, I stopped at a
location where I did an RMBO transect several years back - Brown's Creek,
Chaffee County. It is off Hwy 285 and CR 270. You take it back to the foot
hills east of Antero Peak.
I got out of my car near where the side road to Br
Hi All,
Checked the Boat Launch area in Bear Creek Lake Park (BCLP) this
morning and found both the adult and 1st year Harris's Sparrows with
the flock of American Tree Sparrows. The flock was in the willows
just to the left of the Boat Launch near the Kiosk with the map. The
Adult Harr
Hi All,
A young man named Jay and I watched the Golden-crowned Sparrow put
in an appearance under the platform feeders at the Red Rocks Trading
Post about 8:10 this morning. The number of juncos seems to be
reduced considerably from a week ago. The PS x WW cross was there
early. Other
Hello, Birders.
If you're looking for rare gulls in Boulder County, Panama Reservoir is the
place to be these days.
Yesterday afternoon, Sunday, March 11th, in nice "flat" light, I saw 2 or 3
adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 2 end-of-first-cycle Lesser Black-backed
Gulls, 2 adult Thayer's Gul
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