[cobirds] 11/28 Annual Holiday Sale and Scott Rashid on Barn Owls

[Pam Piombino]

Brought to you by *Boulder County Audubon Society* (BCAS)



*Gift and Book Sales, *

*"Interludes with Nature" Registration*


*Scott Rashid:  Barn Owls*


*Tuesday, November 28, 2017*



*Unitarian-Universalist Church *

*5001 Pennsylvania Avenue, Boulder*



*FREE* hot drinks and holiday treats!  Door prizes on the half-hour.
Silent Auction table.



*5-7 P.M., HOLIDAY SALE,* and after Scott's talk, *until 9:30*.  We will
offer a broad array of nature related gifts.  Do your holiday shopping
while helping the environment!  We will again be selling *Triple Certified
coffees from Cafe Ibis*.  Triple=Organic+Shade Grown+Fair Trade, help
preserve habitat!



*7:15 PROGRAM:  "The Life of the Barn Owl" *by*,* *Scott Rashid*, founder
of the Colorado Avian Research and Rehabilitation Institute, (CARRI).  For
the last four years, Scott has been installing  nest boxes, monitoring them
and then banding many successful broods.  He will tell of his experiences
and what he has learned about these lovely, enigmatic raptors.



*BOOK SALES: * We have had two major donations of book collections this
year and will be offering these at very reasonable prices.  The volumes
include bird and natural history topics, many collectible and out of print.



*AUTHORS:*  Scott Rashid, Cindy and Bob Maynard, Steve Jones, Scott Brown



*ARTISTS AND VENDORS:*  Anne Gifford, Christie Lovett, Judi Dressler, Nina
Davis, Ron Butler, Lisa Sobieniak, Annika Anderson, Environment for the
Americas, Pam Piombino, Marie-Juliette Bird, and Vegan Holiday Cookies by
Dale Ball.



*"INTERLUDES WITH NATURE":  *This evening will be the first opportunity to
register for these very popular, limited participation offerings.  This is
a series of fundraising outings led by the best of our local naturalists to
special places.  All monies raised support our Teen Naturalist Camp
Scholarship Program.



*Scott Rashid:  Banding Baby Barn Owls, *usually late June



*Steve Jones:  Roxborough State Park, *Mon., June 18



*Marcel Such and Carl Starace:  Gunnison Sage Grouse, *Sat/Sun Apr. 14-15



*Carron Meaney:  Beavers, Nature’s Landscape Architects, *Date, TBD



*Ted Floyd:  The Nature Conservancy's, Carpenter Ranch, *Steamboat, weekend
trip, late June or early July



*Bill Kaempfer:  Greater Prairie Chickens. *Wray, CO Sat/Sun Apr. 7-8



*Raymond Bridge:  Geology of the Front Range *Date, TBD



*Alison Holloran:  A Bird in the Hand, Wyoming Little Laramie River, *June
23-24



*Scott Severs, Jan Chu & Pam Piombino:  Arapaho Ranch Bug Safari *July or
August



*Prairie Ecosystems*

Fri.-Sun. June 8-10

*Dave Leatherman:   Birds including Loggerhead Shrikes*

*Paul Opler:   Night Butterflies (Moths)*

*Mike Weismann:Insects *

*John Spenser:  Astronomy*

*Botanist TBD*

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[cobirds] Surf Scoter; Walden Reservoir

[Tom L]

In a quick day trip to North Park, we found numerous rough-legged hawks have 
arrived. At Lake Walden, a surf scoter was present. A nice surprise was a big 
formation of sandhill cranes (105) high in the sky heading south. Tom Litteral, 
Steamboat Springs.

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[cobirds] Clement park, Jefferson Co - Greater white-fronted goose

[Scott Somershoe]

I went for a walk earlier this afternoon and while looking for a white-fronted 
goose, a lone goose got up off the water, was calling up a storm and flew a 
couple circles overhead. It was a white-fronted! I can only wonder if it's the 
same bird that spent last winter here. The bird was right by the library. 

Amongst the couple thousand cackling geese scattered around the lake were 2 
young snow geese by the library. Over 400 shovelers were feeding in their 
little groups all around the lake. I can't recall seeing this many shovelers 
here before. 

Good birding,
Scott Somershoe 
Littleton CO

Sent from my iPhone

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[cobirds] Boulder water birds

[Peter Gent]

All,

I looked at many large water bodies in Boulder County this morning.  Best
birds were 14 Snow Geese at the east end of Dodd Res, which is east of
Niwot, and Pacific Loon and 2 Bonaparte's Gulls at Boulder Res.

I looked through probably 5000 Cackling Geese at Dodd, Six-Mile and
Baseline Res, but didn't come up with anything dark, such as Brant, Scoters
or a juvenile Jaeger.

Cheers,  Peter Gent.

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Re: [cobirds] Cheery Creek Res. (Arapahoe CO)

[Juncos]

Red-necked Grebe north of lake loop.

Glenn Walbek
Castle Rock, CO

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On 10 Nov 2017 3:24 pm, ROBERT RIGHTER  wrote:
>
> Hi 
>
> At the Marina 
> 1 Greater White-fronted Goose swimming amongst  various sizes of Canada Geese 
> as well as Cackling Geese 
>
> Scattered through out 
> 25-35 Red-breasted Mergansers, mostly in female-type plumages but a few males 
> were also seen 
> 20- 30 Bonaparte’s Gull, mostly adults, but a few 1st winter individuals were 
> also spotted 
>
> Bob Righter 
> Denver CO 
>
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[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 11 November 2017

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler:   Joyce Takamine
e-mail:RBA AT cobirds.org
Date:  November 11, 2017

This is the Rare Bird Alert for Saturday,  November 11 sponsored by Denver
Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.

Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species)
NOTE:  The RBA is now using the new AOU checklist and the order of families
has changed.

Greater White-fronted Goose (*Arapahoe, Boulder, Larimer, Sedgwick)
Cackling Goose (*Arapahoe, *Boulder, *Broomfield, Kiowa, Larimer, Logan,
Montrose, Morgan, Pueblo, Sedgwick, Weld)
Trumpeter Swan (*Mesa)
Tundra Swan (*Boulder, *Mesa, Moffat, *Park)
Wood Duck (Park)
Blue-winged Teal (Boulder)
Storm Wigeon (Montezuma)
Greater Scaup (Routt)
Surf Scoter (Fremont,* Jefferson, Logan, Montezuma, Morgan, *Park, *San
Miguel, Sedgwick)
White-winged Scoter (Fremont, *Mesa, *Park, *San Miguel)
Black Scoter (*Park)
Long-tailed Duck (Boulder, Fremont, *Mesa, *Park, *Pueblo)
Barrow’s Goldeneye (Eagle, Moffat, Montrose)
Red-necked Grebe (Denver, Fremont, Otero)
Sandhill Crane (Weld)
Black-bellied Plover (Bent)
American Golden-Plover (Bent)
Sanderling (Douglas, Pueblo, Sanderling)
Long-billed Dowitcher (Weld)
Greater Yellowlegs (Jefferson, Kiowa, Larimer)
Wilson’s Phalarope (Jefferson)
PARASITIC JAEGER  (Larimer, *Weld)
Sabine’s Gull (Pueblo)
Mew Gull (Larimer)
Iceland Gull (Larimer, Morgan, *Park)
GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL (*Park)
Great Black-backed Gull (*Pueblo)
Common Tern (Boulder, Crowley, Denver)
Red-throated Loon (Kiowa, Larimer, Pueblo)
Pacific Loon (*Boulder, *Park)
Common Loon (Adams, Bent, Boulder, Denver, Garfield, Larimer, *Mesa,
Moffat, Morgan, Otero, *Ouray,*Park, *Pueblo, *San Miguel, Sedgwick)
American Bittern (Boulder)
Great Egret (Montezuma)
Snowy Egret (Boulder)
Cattle Egret (Kiowa)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Weld)
Turkey Vulture (Pueblo)
Osprey (Larimer, Montezuma)
Broad-winged Hawk (Jefferson)
Swainson’s Hawk (Mesa)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (Bent, Chaffee)
Eastern Phoebe (*Arapahoe, Morgan, Prowers)
Northern Shrike (Bent)
Pinyon Jay (Baca, Chaffee)
Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay (Kiowa)
Barn Swallow (Larimer)
Red-breasted Nuthatch (Kiowa)
Pygmy Nuthatch (*Broomfield, Morgan, Phillips)
Brown Creeper (Morgan)
Winter Wren (Baca, Larimer)
Carolina Wren (Prowers)
Bewick’s Wren (Garfield)
Eastern Bluebird (El Paso, Jefferson)
Brown Thrasher (Jefferson)
Northern Mockingbird (Boulder, Denver)
American Pipit (Park, *San Miguel)
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (Garfield)
Black Rosy-Finch (Garfield)
Brown-capped Rosy-Finch (Garfield)
Cassin’s Finch (Baca)
Common Redpoll (*Adams, *Boulder, *Denver)
Red Crossbill  (Boulder, *Broomfield, Larimer, Morgan, Sedgwick)
Lapland Longspur (Baca, Bent, Kiowa, *Park, *Pueblo, Sedgwick)
Snow Bunting (Logan, Sedgwick)
Canyon Towhee (Baca)
Chipping Sparrow (Montezuma, Sedgwick)
Fox Sparrow (*Arapahoe, Jefferson)
Lincoln’s Sparrow (El Paso, Jefferson, Otero, *Pueblo)
Swamp Sparrow (*Park)
White-throated Sparrow (La Plata, Montezuma, Montrose, Otero, *Ouray,
Prowers)
Harris’s Sparrow (Boulder, Kiowa, Larimer, Sedgwick)
Rusty Blackbird (Adams, Jefferson, *Pueblo)
Great-tailed Grackle (Montrose)
Common Yellowthroat (Boulder, Broomfield)
Yellow-throated Warbler (Boulder)
Northern Cardinal (Prowers)
Rose-breasted  Grosbeak (Prowers)
Indigo Bunting (Arapahoe)

ADAMS COUNTY:
---On November 3 at Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR, Lorraine Lanning reported
Common Loon and Rusty Blackbird in tree on east bank of Lake Ladora.
---On November 10 at First creek at Rocky Mountan Arsenal NWR, Lorraine
Lanning reported 2 Common Redpoll.

ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On November 6 at deKoevend Park in Centennial, Jared Del Rosso reported
Fox Sparrow.  On November 8 at deKoevend Park, Jared Del Rosso reported Red
Fox Sparrow.  On November 10 at deKoevend Park, Bez Bezuidenhout and Jared
Del Rosso reported Red Fox Sparrow.
---On November 9 at Westlands Parks in Greenwood Village, Jared Del Rosso
reported juv Indigo Bunting.
---On November 10 at Cherry Creek SP, Bob Righter reported Greater
White-fronted Goose at Marina and Cackling Geese.
---On November 10 at South Platte Park C470 area, Norm Lewis reported
Eastern Phoebe.

BACA COUNTY:
---On November 6 on CR M few miles W of US 287, Dave Leatherman reported
several Lapland Longspurs
---On November 6 at Carrizo Creek Picnic Area and nearby creekbed S of CR M
about 20 mi W of US 287, Dave Leatherman reported 180 Pinyon Jay and 2
Canyon Towhee.
---On November 6 at Cottonwood Canyon, Dave Leatherman reported 4 f
Cassin’s Finch and Winter Wren.

BENT COUNTY:
---On November 2 at Blue Lake (Adobe Creek Reservoir), Dave Leatherman
reported 2 Northern Shrikes, Common Loon, 2 Black-bellied Plovers, American
Golden-Plover, and 10 Lapland Longspurs.
---On November 2 on CR 14 near CR KK, a few miles N of Hwy 50, Dave
Leatherman reported Lewis’s Woodpecker.

BOULDER COUNTY:
---On November 3 at Walden Ponds, Willem Van Vliet reported 2 Snowy
Egrets.  On November 4 at Walden Ponds, Ted Floyd, Richard Trinker, and
Brandon