[cobirds] Chico Days (El Paso Pueblo)
CoBirders, Permission was obtained for this post. The annual fundraiser to support education efforts on the Chico Basin Ranch is now called Chico Days and will be held Saturday, May 9. The bird-related activities will include a bird walk and a bird-banding demonstration. In addition, there will be other natural history events including looking for and identifying spiders. The bird walk will include driving to the more popular migrant traps with a stop for Burrowing Owl and Mountain Plover. Beginners and families are welcome. For specific details please visit www.chicobasinranch.com. A new ranch bird checklist with 320 species is now viewable there. Bill Maynard Colorado Springs Click for discounted saunas. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/BLSrjpTLCgfF9QhgFTik00iYNEBRnFl7iJFlDZU2SeKL3RJUhmGwZR48T9u/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] Re: Fledgling Eurasian Collared Doves, Larimer
House Sparrows ... Gary Lefko/Nunn http://coloradobirder.ning.com/ -- home of NunnCAM On Apr 10, 8:01 am, Connie Kogler zbluehe...@gmail.com wrote: For the last 3 days I've had a pair of these doves bringing in their young. They don't waste any time do they? Anyone else seeing fledglings? Connie Kogler BirdsOTheMorning.com AslansOwn.com Loveland, Colorado. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] Great-tailed Grackle/Wellington SWA
Great-tailed Grackle pair back at Wellington SWA along Nunn Road (aka Larimer CR 64 aka Weld CR 100) on strip of land between the east and west ponds. A pair was here last year. Thanks Gary Lefko/Nunn http://coloradobirder.ning.com/ -- home of NunnCAM --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] Turkey Vulture, etc., Rio Grande County
Turkey Vultures have been showing up around Del Norte this week. In past years they have roosted at the nursing home in DN (how depressing!), and one was there today. I could not see a band, on it but anyway Wing? Leg? I didn't record the info. about banding that someone sent recently. Please send it to me, and I will try to keep an eye out. At the Monte Vista NWR I saw no cranes. Waterfowl are plentiful but appear to me to be the late end of the early species. Some Canvasbacks, which I had missed for the last few years.. No Marsh Wrens yet . Large flock of Yellow-headed Blackbirds. One porcupine. Virginia Simmons, Del Norte --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] Raptors, Colorado Springs, Friday
Hi COBirders, Being inspired by the Dinosaur Ridge Hawkwatch, Wednesday, I thought I'd try my luck down here. I found access to the ridge just above the end of Garden of the Gods Road by walking in from the neighborhood behind. The high point there gives unobstructed views down the Dakota Hogback to the South, all the way to Cheyenne Mountain; across the bluffs to the East, and along the ridgeline of the scar and peaks to the West. You are actually above the high points on the Kissing Camels a mile to the South. Also, it is about a 20 minute hike from my house! I didn't see as many hawks as I would have liked, but... Another bonus at this sight (besides having no one else around) was watching 30+ Bighorn Sheep at the base of the scar. Friday was hazy-overcast from upslope, and maybe that's why most of the birds I saw were along the line of the scar. I was at the viewpoint for about 3 hours - 9:30-12:30, with most activity in the first hour or so. No real evidence of thermals, just steady E, and SE winds and clouds. Observed: Turkey Vulture -4 (some locals, some moving N) Com Raven - 6 Am Crow - 5 Cooper's Hawk -1 Sharp-shinned Hawk -1 (local?) Prairie Falcon - 1 (local? it was heading N, but low) Golden Eagle - 1 (local?) Red-tailed Hawk - 6 (some locals) Ferruginous Hawk -1 White-throated Swift - 6 Ring-billed Gull - 2 Plus oak-foothills species nearby - Spotted Towhee, RS Flicker, Mtn Chickadee, WB Nuthatch, DE Junco, Blue Jay, W Scrub Jay, BB Magpie. If interested in directions to this spot, let me know. Happy Migration, Steve Brown Colorado Springs --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] Pueblo and El Paso birding
Birded Valco Ponds west of the parking lot this morning. Not a lot of birds, but there were two black phoebes by the bridge near the construction site where they nested last year. Other highlights were Lincoln's sparrow and hairy woodpecker. There were a lot of swallows, including cliff, barn, tree, violet-green and northern rough-winged. Looked hard for a bank, but couldn't find one. At Big Johnson Reservoir in El Paso County, there were a lot of ducks, but not a lot of variety. There were many northern shovelers, ruddy ducks and bufflehead, along with a number of western grebes. David Chartier Colorado Springs, CO --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] Snowy egrets, El Paso County
This morning I briefly saw an egret species at the drainage pond behind Safeway in Falcon, El Paso County; I relayed the info to Jeannie Mitchell who saw 3 Snowy Egrets there this afternoon (she took photos). Cecile Lee Elbert, CO --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] Weld County on 4/10
Joe Mammoser and I birded Weld County today. Highlights: SR14/CR51 east of Ault (pasture to the east of this intersection): Mountain Plover (4) CR90 east of CR 51: Golden Eagle (has been sitting on the silo (the other day with a second bird) on the south side of CR90 for the last week - there are nests in the Siberian elm at this locale but they look too small for use by eagles) Crow Valley Campground: Lincoln's Sparrow (1) west of the main picnic shelter in the willow thicket Red-naped Sapsucker (1 adult m) northwest corner Great Horned Owl (female on nest) right over the group shelter in a tree (elm?, forgot to check) in the northwest corner Ruby-crowned Kinglet (heard) Say's Phoebe (2) out in the north part (Mourning Dove Trail) McCown's Longspur (1 flyover) [The gate is now open and you can drive into the campground. Things are dry and the cottonwoods seem behind in their development, compared to Fort Collins.] GR96 (Murphy's Pasture): McCown's Longspur (several, but not a zillion) almost had a great photo of one but a birding tour van tried to pass us on the right, believe it or not, and scared it off! Chestnut-collared Longspur (1) [Just east of the intersection of GR96 and GR69 there are a few places along the north side of 96 with standing water. In the next day or so until this dries up, these waterholes would be good places to watch, from a distance, for longspurs, etc.] Crom Lake (west of Pierce on CR31 s of CR90: Lesser Yellowlegs (1) FOS American Avocet (10+) FOS Baird's Sandpiper (1) FOS Cackling Geese (hundreds) Unnamed lake on the east side of CR31 about 1 mile south of SR14: Few thousand geese, most of which looked like Cackling and a few (3-4) white geese that looked small enough to be Ross's Woods Lake (on the south side of CR74 between Rd 27 and Rd 29: Clark's Grebe (at least 2) FOS Western Grebe (several) Great-tailed Grackle (heard) Yellow-headed Blackbird (heard) lots of other common waterfowl Still conspicuous numbers of kestrels on the grasslands, as well as a mini-plague of Redshank grasshoppers (Xanthippus corallipes). This big, yellow-winged grasshopper with red hind thighs is a common prey item for Loggerhead Shrikes and Swainson's Hawks. One of these days soon, both bird species will arrive and be elated to see the table set with a favorite entree. Unless it rains a little bit soon, not sure what the grasshoppers will have to eat, however. Dave Leatherman Fort Collins --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] info on reporting wing-tagged TVs
Hi All, Hawk Mountain PA is coordinating the turkey vulture study, on a western population of TVs. Tonight we watched a very light male red-tail hawk escorting a group of four migrant vultures away from its territory. They took off immediately when he made a B-line toward them. Interestingly three pairs of r-t hawks are nesting less than a mile from each other. Best, Scott Severs Longmont The web link on the vultures is here: http://hawkmountain.org/media/turkey_vulture_wanted_09.pdf Here are the details: Working with colleagues in Venezuela, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary color- marked more than 350 Turkey Vultures over-wintering in northwestern Venezuela in 2006-2007 and 2008-2009. The tagged birds are members of the meridionalis, or western North American, subspecies and were tagged to study long-distance migration in the species. The birds are expected to begin migrating back toward their breeding areas in February. Their movements should take them through Central America and Mexico and into the western United States and Canada. Reports of birds will help Hawk Mountain determine the timing and geography of migration in Turkey Vultures, as well as the breeding areas of the tagged birds. Some of the birds have red tags with white numbers, others have light-blue tags with black numbers. Please report the date and specific location of your sighting, color and number of the tag, the wing (right or left) to which the tag is attached, and the circumstances of the sighting, including whether or not the bird was alone or in a group of vultures, flying or perched, feeding or roosting, etc. Dead birds also should be reported. Report sightings to Keith Bildstein, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Acopian Center for Conservation Learning, 410 Summer Valley Road, Orwigsburg, PA 17961; bildst...@hawkmtn.org; 1-570- 943-3411 ext. 108. All reports will be recognized, and individuals reporting tagged birds will receive summary information about the study. Thank you. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] Bird courtship and breeding
Good morning, For the past few days a greater white-fronted goose and a Canada goose have been wandering or sitting together along the lake near our condo building. The first bird has been here since early February, always among the flocks of Canada's that arrived in late fall, and recently disappeared. Do greater white-fronted and Canada's pair off and breed? Ten days ago a pair of widgeon, apparently from the large flocks here all winter, were bobbing and weaving their heads as they swam side by side across the lake. Is this a courting scenario? Nancy Hatch Denver **Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make dinner for $10 or less. (http://food.aol.com/frugal-feasts?ncid=emlcntusfood0001) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] Turkey Vulture kettle, so. Boulder Co.
While hiking up the Towhee trail near the south end of the Mesa trail about noon today, I saw a kettle of at least six Turkey Vultures riding a thermal and slowly heading north over the Flatirons. I did not see any wing tags. Also notable along the trail were several singing Ruby-crowned Kinglets-- finally, a sign of land bird migration! Paula Hansley Louisville --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[cobirds] Breeding plumage Horned Grebe/Mymm Ackley
Dear Co-birders: On Thursday, April 9th, I saw a Horned Grebe in almost full breeding plumage, along the Arkansas at Runyon Lake here in Pueblo. It seemed so tiny among the coots it was keeping company with! Rather striking, that-and strange-since the only one I'd seen in breeding plumage before had been in Alaska! Usually when they're out at the reservoir in the winter I have to peer through my scope, trying to ID them half way to - - - - and gone. But this gorgeous little fellow was diving right in front of me! His neck and upper chest-in the front-was the only place that still had some white on it. The rest of him was-WOW! (Brilliant yellow horns surrounded by black, with two slender white stripes on the back of his neck going up to his head-plus his baleful red eye. His back was kind of off-grayish, with a reddish tinge along the sides, close to the water.) I'm sure I'll never see THAT again! Mymm Ackley --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
