[cobirds] Golden-Crowned Sparrow
I'm unable to attend the Red Rocks Christmas Bird Count today. Bob just called with the report of a juvenile Golden-Crowned Sparrow at the feeders behind the Trading Post. We wanted to get the word out, as it could be a state bird for many. Lea Ann Brown Highlands Ranch 8:30 a.m. -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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] Large falcon west Longmont
Heading to Heil Ranch I had a large light colored raptor soar over Nelson Rd. By the time I could pull over and get my bins on it I could only rule out the bueteos. The location is south of Nelson and east of 36. -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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] BLACK-HEADED GULL/Probable-Larimer
COBirders, I just had a probable 1st cycle BLACK-HEADED GULL at Long Pond. The bird flew to the SW and looked like it overshot Linden Lake so could be in the Horsetooth Res. vicinity. This was a small bird with a light gray mantle, brown upperwing coverts, brown tertial centers, speckled black on the rear head and hindneck, reddish bill with a black tip and reddish legs. The one noticeable feature I did not see was the darker ear spot but the head was speckled black in this area and I was a good distance away. On my way to get a closer look the bird flew. I don't think it could have been any other gull, so folks in the Ft. Collins area should be on the lookout for it. --- Rachel Hopper Ft. Collins Check out the CFO Website: www.cfo-link.org -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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] Probable BLACK-HEADED GULL/Larimer
CObirders, I forgot to mention that this bird also had a white tail with a narrow black subterminal band that did not extend the full width of the tail. --- Rachel Hopper Ft. Collins Check out the CFO Website: www.cfo-link.org -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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] Lesser Black-backed Gull, Ferruginous Hawk, Boulder County
Dear Cobirders, I headed up to Nelson Rd. and Hwy 36 to look for Todd's large Falcon this morning, but wasn't able to find it. I swung by Lagerman Reservoir on the way back and spotted a Northern Harrier sitting on the shore apparently eating buds off of a low plant. Lagerman is totally frozen and it looks like a coyote or something took care of the previously frozen-in Goose. There were a few American Kestrels and an odd looking Ferruginous Hawk harassing a Red-tailed Hawk. The unusual hawk was, size-wise perfect for Ferruginous Hawk, and had the white along the base of the outer primaries, visible on the upper wing, (the wing-comma), however it had a white base to it's tail with a thick, dark terminal band to the tail. The underside of the wings was snow white and essentially unmarked. I guess it could have been a sub-adult bird. Given Lagerman's frozen state, I headed over to Thomas Reservoir in Erie to look at loafing Gulls. The numbers are impressive and the observation distance is ideal. There were about half-a-dozen Herring Gulls, what looked good for a juvenile Thayer's Gull, a few California and many Ring-billed Gulls. Rounding out the bunch was an adult (or very close to it) Lesser Black-backed Gull. Just before I left, something in the open lot just north of the Thomas Reservoir sounded tantalizingly like Lapland Longspurs, but I wasn't able to find a single bird. Cheers, Walter Szeliga Boulder, CO -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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] Golden-crowned Sparrow--Red Rocks/Jeffco
After finishing the Ken Caryl CBC, I ran to Red Rocks for the Golden-crowned Sparrow. The Golden-crowned was seen around 2:30 with a Chipping Sparrow. I will add photos to the gallery below tonight. Mark Chavez Lakewood-Green Mtn http://www.pbase.com/mark2929c -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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 Black-backed Gull/Larimer
COBirders, I headed up to Horsetooth Res., to see if I could find the probable Black-headed Gull. No luck, but Horsetooth has a lot of open water and a lot gulls are there. I did find an adult Great Black-backed among the more common gulls loafing on the ice. --- Rachel Hopper Ft. Collins Check out the CFO Website: www.cfo-link.org -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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] Two wrens (no pacificus), Fountain Creek Regional Park, El Paso County
Hello birders, Around 2:15 this afternoon, Bryan Patrick re-found the Winter Wren at Fountain Creek Regional Park, El Paso County; it was in the dry irrigation ditch, not very far from the waterfall; I was walking on the east side of the ditch when Bryan pointed to a bush from the ditch; I had a few obstructed, quick glimpses then it flew to the other side of the ditch, under the vegetation overhanging the bank; within a few seconds, it came out, posed on a rock and I had a great view of it : brown above, pale throat and chest, white speckles, rufous tail; it had called earlier but I don't know the difference between the eastern and the pacific subspecies's call; it seemed to have a harsher alarm call than its regular call. We came to the conclusion that this was an eastern Winter Wren. Bryan took a picture of the bird. On my way back, I went to the bridge between the Nature Center Pond and the North Pond hoping to see the Swamp Sparrow; no sparrow but there was a Marsh Wren in the cattails south of the bridge. Cecile Lee Elbert, CO -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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] Golden-crowned sparrow, Redrocks park
Hello all Thanks to Bob Brown and everyone for getting the Info out, I was able to see the sparrow from 3:00 to 4:00 pm today. I have posted a photo to my site below. Good Birding Loch Kilpatrick Parker Co www.flickr.com/photos/lochkilpatrick -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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] Goshawk, Upper Deer Creek Canyon CBC
Jim Duggan, Toni Rautus, Nina Routh, Norm Lewis joined me on today's CBC in upper Deer Creek Canyon, Jefferson County. We had the usual nuthatches and chickadees but no Cassin's Finches or crossbills this year and almost no cones on trees. Our big event was the fly-by of a Northern Goshawk. Paul Slingsby -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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] Virginia Rails, fort collins
Co-birders, A personal highlight today on my section of the Fort Collins CBC was 24 Virginia Rails we detected using call-play back along a roughly 300-m stretch of small perrenial creek flowing through cattails, just north of Ted's Place, along highway 287 north of fort collins. most of the birds were upstream from where the highway crosses over this creek. We walked along this here, stopping every 25-50 m, playing a variety of mostly Virginia Rail calls (they also responded frequently to Song Sparrow songs). At some stops we saw/heard up to three rails simultaneously, and in many instances the rails approached us within feet, running across the snow and through the brush. This is an astonighing number of rails for this area, smashing our previous record of 9 birds along this same stretch of creek. Unfortunately, this creek, and the birds, are located right where the proposed Glade Reservoir would occur. other CBC highlights for us included Northern Pygmy-Owl, 31 American Dippers (mainly along the north fork of the Poudre, below Seaman dam, and 42 other species. cheers, Arvind Panjabi 5700' feet, Larimer County, CO On the north slope of Milner Mtn Mountain mahogany shrubland and grassland -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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] N. Boulder County Chihuahuan Raven
Folks- while participating in the Longmont CBC today my group (Dick Pratt, Mike Freiberg, and John Barr) and I had a Chihuahuan Raven fly right over us fairly low, calling as it went. As it approached head- on we first thought it was another American Crow based on its size and wing cadence, but when it opened its mouth we knew that ID was out. As it went overhead the graduated tail was also distinctively different than the more even-ended tail of a crow and it had longer- looking wings. While Common Ravens' vocal repertoire can encompass the higher, thinner sound of Chihuahuan, this bird's small size and non-honking weapon of a bill ruled out it's more expected cousin. We also enjoyed the distinct pleasure of poaching first a light-morph and then a dark-morph Harlan's Hawk from the territory to our west in the Hygiene area (the light bird at its normal line of poles along 75th south of St. Vrain Road, and the dark bird just west of the St. Vrain River on Hygiene Road.) Interestingly, we missed seeing any intermediates, the most common Harlan's morph wintering around here. We also had a prolonged study of an adult light Rough-legged Hawk north of Hwy. 66 between Table Mt. Road and 75th. Gotta rest up now for the Boulder CBC tomorrow! Good luck to counters wherever you are. Enjoy- Bill __ • Bill Schmoker • __ http://schmoker.org http://brdpics.blogspot.com bill.schmo...@gmail.com 720/201-5749 __ -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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 Reservoir CBC results 12/19
The 35th Pueblo Reservoir CBC was held today. At the end of the complation party at Mark Yaeger's gallery in Pueblo, we were at 115 species, plus so far 4 Count Week species. Highlights: Surf Scoter (2nd time for the count) Long-tailed Duck Barrow's Goldeneye Mew Gull Thayer's Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull White-winged Dove Black Phoebe Say's Phoebe Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (4th time for the count) Northern Mockingbird Common Grackle Great-tailed Grackle (3rd time for the count--3 years in a row) Northern Cardinal (new for the count) Lesser Goldfinch Also, Greater White-fronted Goose, Greater Scaup, and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker were seen on Wednesday for Count Week, though weren't seen today. The big miss, was Brewer's Blackbird, a bird that hasn't been missed before. Brandon Percival Pueblo West, CO -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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] Large, large Falcon, Boulder County
Dear Cobirders, Although I didn't spot Todd's large Falcon from earlier today, I off- handedly mentioned an encounter I had with and enormous Falcon along the Eagle Trail in Boulder County on 12/12 to Nathan Pieplow this evening. I first spotted this Falcon along a north-south fence line along the Eagle Trail just north of the Mesa Reservoir on the afternoon of 12/12 (40.072441N, -105.253821E). At first, I thought the bird was a Red-tailed Hawk and I positioned myself in such a way as to block the Sun and get better light. The bird was a large Falcon with a heavily streaked chest and enormous shoulders and brown back; it's wing tips fell short of its tail, eliminating Peregrine Falcon. According to measurements made after the fact, I was about 100-120 yards away from the bird with the sun behind the ridge and perpendicular to my line of sight. I watched this Falcon for about 15-20 minutes until a horse approached it and spooked it. As it flew away, I noted that the axillaries and underwing coverts were darker than then remainder of the underwing and I assumed that this excluded all other species except Prairie Falcon. Nathan suggested I look at photographs of juvenile gray morph Gyrfalcons from Doug Backlund (http://wildphotosphotography.com/WildPhotos/index.htm ). I now have a hard time discounting juvenile Gyrfalcon based on my field notes. Furthermore, I would encourage anyone observing large Falcons along the Front Range to take detailed field notes as this identification does not appear as straightforward as most drawings and descriptions woud suggest. I would aslo suggest that folks check the corridor east of Hwy 36 and west of 55th St. north of Boulder in the coming week as it seems at least possible that a Gyrfalcon could be present. Good CBC'ing, Walter Szeliga Boulder, CO -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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
