Compiler: Mary Driscoll
Date July 13, 2013
email: rba AT cobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, July 13, 2013 sponsored by
the Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you
are phoning in a message,
COBirders,
For those of you who are looking forward to the annual Arkansas Valley
Audubon birding field trip to the Wet Mountain Valley (Westcliffe, Custer
County), mark your calendars for Saturday, August 17. We will meet at 8:00
a.m. in the large graveled parking lot on the south shore of Lak
Hi COBirders,
FOS Calliope Hummingbird male at my feeders this afternoon, in Mountain Shadows
area of NW Colorado Springs.
Other hummers are around, but in very low numbers.
Steve Brown
Colorado SPrings
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A gorgeous male Rufous Hummingbird appeared at the sugar water last evening. He
is still here this AM.
Quite early in the summer for my house. They usually only stay a couple of
days. He is sharing the water with a female Bullock's Oriole.
Norma Erickson
Weld county
at Hwy 392 and WCR 35
970 356
Rufous-necked Wood Rail was seen around 7:00 Friday evening.
Was seen again this morning at around 6:20 a.m. In addition to this
mega-rarity, three Least Bittern, one Green Heron, Virginia Rail, Black-crowned
Night Heron, Great Egret and American Avocet were seen from the boardwalk at
Bosque de
Greetings All
Loloff was packed with birds today, including a spiffy male Mexican Duck
At Glenmere Park in Greeley, the herons of mostly hatched, no sign of that
Mexican Duck, but there was a juv montane Hairy Woodpecker and a Broad-tailed
Humm. At Duck Lake in Larimer County, there was a Shovel
Among the swarms of Broad-taileds visiting the feeders/flowers of the Fawn
Brook Inn this afternoon, there were at least two brilliant male Rufous
Hummingbirds. I watched for about 20 minutes and didn't notice any obvious
Calliopes, Black-chinneds, or other goodies.
James Lamoureux
Superior,
I checked some of the lakes / remnants of lakes north of La Junta - Las
Animas - Lamar just before sunset yesterday and also this morning. Lakes
Henry and Meredith (Crowley County) are continuing to dry up, and the mud
and dead fish are good for birds, bad for birders, and upsetting in
general