[cobirds] Rosy-Finches - Golden
Birders, The Rosy-Finches are here this morning. -- Ira Sanders Golden, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CABF3siFB%3DQSXRMBYLmL8uJ7r2%2BBP_oUL04KgydAaPKU6Gfcyeg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[cobirds] Barr Lake Today (Adams)
After Alec Hopping's report I headed out to Barr Lake this morning and had a nice time. The vast majority of the water is frozen but openings remain. The number of birds around sunrise was amazing, but gull and geese numbers dropped drastically as the day warmed up. A small ice hole near the boat launch had a good number of large gulls including a first year Thayer's. This was a nice place for point blank views. The biggest hole in the ice is best viewed from the banding station. It held a Ross's x Cackling Goose, over forty Herring gulls and a Lesser Black-backed Gull. As the morning steam lifted the gull number began to drop. By the time I made the long walk to the opening in the south west corner of the res the majority of gulls had left and right before I got to look at the geese about half the flock left to leave. I still found a group of 28 Snow and 8 Ross's Goose and a single Greater White-fronted Goose. The flock of dabblers held one male Mexican Duck integrade. The first I've seen showing some of the greenish mallard head color. Overall a fun day and worth checking as good birds could easily still be hiding out there. Nick Moore Boulder CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAEfNQ5kbw702KpPZFgKut4k11G8dsphARZf%2BCwdvGU2b4jpzrw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[cobirds] West Slope Birding Network (WSBN) posts now available at ABA Birding News
Hello, Birders. As many of you know, COBirds posts can be accessed via the American Birding Association's Birding News service (http://birding.aba.org). The link for COBirds is http://birding.aba.org/maillist/CO01. Thanks to the efforts of Lynne Miller and Greg Neise, *posts to the West Slope Birding Network (WSBN) are now available via Birding News. Here is the link:* *http://birding.aba.org/maillist/CO02* If you check out the link, you'll find, um, not much at all. That's because the site needs to be populated with posts starting from the moment that this service was set up by the ABA (which happened yesterday, I believe). I hope someone on the West Slope will post something soon--just a test message would be fine--so that we can get this service up and running. Although I didn't get to see any of the following birds, I can report that Graham Etherington, visiting from Norwich, saw a bunch of nice birds this past weekend: the usual flock of Barrow's Goldeneyes in Silverthorne, Summit County, late Saturday, Jan. 17, and then a White-throated Sparrow, an American Tree Sparrow, and outlandish numbers of rosy-finches and Sharp-tailed Grouse in and around Steamboat Springs, Routt County, on Sunday morning, Jan. 18. Here are some great photos by Graham: http://birds-britishbirder.blogspot.com/2015/01/steamboat-springs-colorado-18-jan-15.html http://birds-britishbirder.blogspot.com/2015/01/rocky-mountain-national-park-colorado.html Thanks again to Lynne Miller and Greg Neise for providing WSBN posts to birders everywhere. Ted Floyd Lafayette, Boulder County, Colorado -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/065d4ac9-6557-4a1e-8e65-9a41734f9d5a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
