Re: [cobirds] Lewis's Woodpecker

[Chris F]

Two weeks I was camping at Vega Lake State Park and saw 2 Lewis'
Woodpeckers. One was on a fence post maybe 10 feet from the dirt road.

Also there were a number of Violet-Green swallows, plus a family of
Mountain Bluebirds. As a recent transplant to CO, the bluebirds were a
special treat.

Chris Fleuriel
Aurora CO

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 11:25 AM Robert Righter 
wrote:

> Hi
>
> On June 30, Courtney Schultz alerted all us on Cobirds that there were
> Lewis’s Woodpeckers at Hewlett Gulch, along the Poudre River in Larimer Co.
> Today I spent a few early morning hours audio recording those woodpeckers.
> If anyone is interested in either photographing. recording or just watching
> these unusual woodpeckers, this is a great location. They are in tall bare
> trees visible from the parking lot, but by walking down the trail can get
> relatively quite close to them.
>
> Bob Righter
> Denver CO
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[cobirds] Jeffco Whimbrel, M. Godwit etc.

[Mitchell Bailey]

Joey Negreann and I also saw a handful of willets at Cherry Creek State Park 
along with two or more least sandpipers and a western sandpiper. Feels like 
just yesterday shorebirds were moving north.

Mitchell Bailey
Arapahoe County

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[cobirds] Calliope Hummingbird

[Robin Allison Jasper]

We just saw our first Calliope of the season in Allenspark👏  

Robin
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Re: [cobirds] Jeffco Whimbrel, M. Godwit etc.

[Joe Roller]

Although it's hard to be sure, my guess is that those juicy shorebirds were
moving SOUTH, having failed at nesting up north somehow. I presume they were
adults, but let us know if they were younger, please.

Joe Roller, Denver

"Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like bananas".


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> Joey Negreann and I also saw a handful of willets at Cherry Creek State
> Park along with two or more least sandpipers and a western sandpiper. Feels
> like just yesterday shorebirds were moving north.
>
> Mitchell Bailey
> Arapahoe County
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Re: [cobirds] Jeffco Whimbrel, M. Godwit etc.

[Allison Hilf]

There have been some satellite tagged shorebirds heading south for a few weeks. 
 Just on schedule.   As Joe mentioned, they are often birds that failed to nest 
  Because the time frame for nesting in much of their preferred arctic habitat 
is very short, if a first nest fails the adults often leave; sometimes they 
attempt a second brood and the female will stay and try to raise the young on 
her own.   Those males seem to take care of themselves!!  Just kidding, it is 
survival of the fittest out there in the bird world despite sex.

Allison Hilf
Aurora, CO
> On Jul 10, 2020, at 8:40 AM, Joe Roller  wrote:
> 
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Re: [cobirds] Jeffco Whimbrel, M. Godwit etc.

[Scott Somershoe]

I'll just add a couple notes on these "early" shorebirds.  They are right
on time, like others have noted.  The summer solstice is when southbound
birds start arriving (yup, June 21 or so). There are always a few birds
where you're not sure if they are going south or just didn't go to the
arctic or what their direction/status is.  Anyway, as a crazy example, I
helped with the Georgia Breeding Bird Atlas in summer 2000 and had a
Greater Yellowlegs on Cumberland Island about 24 June (can't find exact
date at the moment, but it was just after the 22nd, which I
distinctly remember for a couple reasons).

Willets, Marbled Godwits, and other prairie breeders discussed in this
thread definitely fail and bail (as I say), much like arctic breeders.
When I run my BBS routes in the prairies of north central Montana usually
between 7-13 June, I'll see groups of 60+ Marbled Godwits.  They likely all
had failed nests or didn't nest. I've still never seen a godwit chick,
which is concerning since I see young of everything else when I'm
stomping around the prairie for a week or more.  I'm sure I've been near
some as if you're anywhere near a nest or young, they circle and attack you
constantly, sometimes following you for over a mile. This does provide some
great photo opps though!

In the case of Long-billed Curlews, several satellite tagged females from
Idaho have been on their winter sites in southern Calif for nearly 3
weeks!  A couple eastern WY breeders passed through CO already and are in
far south Texas and in northern Mexico just south of Brownsville, TX.
Another WY breeder is down in the southern end of the Chihuahuan desert in
central Mexico!

LB Curlew females bolt and leave the males with parental duty! Adult
females get into little groups and head out together. However males arrive
back on breeding grounds first.

I've probably shared this page before, here's info on tagged curlews.  This
is a great organization and partnership. IBO has done a fantastic job on
curlew work and outreach in Idaho where they had a lot of tagged curlews
shot.
https://www.curlewcrew.com/

Scott Somershoe
Littleton CO
Co-Author of *Birds of Tennessee: A New Annotated Checklist
*


On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 9:32 AM Allison Hilf  wrote:

> There have been some satellite tagged shorebirds heading south for a few
> weeks.  Just on schedule.   As Joe mentioned, they are often birds that
> failed to nest   Because the time frame for nesting in much of their
> preferred arctic habitat is very short, if a first nest fails the adults
> often leave; sometimes they attempt a second brood and the female will stay
> and try to raise the young on her own.   Those males seem to take care of
> themselves!!  Just kidding, it is survival of the fittest out there in the
> bird world despite sex.
>
> Allison Hilf
> Aurora, CO
>
> On Jul 10, 2020, at 8:40 AM, Joe Roller  wrote:
>
> .
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Re: [cobirds] Jeffco Whimbrel, M. Godwit etc.

['The "Nunn Guy"' via Colorado Birds]

Hi Scott

Know of an aggregator website that has all project maps of all tagged bird 
species to view real-time various species locations?

Thanks, Gary Lefko, Nunn
http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/birds-and-more-of-the-pawnee-national-grassland


On Friday, July 10, 2020 at 12:38:46 PM UTC-6, Scott Somershoe wrote:
>
> I'll just add a couple notes on these "early" shorebirds.  They are right 
> on time, like others have noted.  The summer solstice is when southbound 
> birds start arriving (yup, June 21 or so). There are always a few birds 
> where you're not sure if they are going south or just didn't go to the 
> arctic or what their direction/status is.  Anyway, as a crazy example, I 
> helped with the Georgia Breeding Bird Atlas in summer 2000 and had a 
> Greater Yellowlegs on Cumberland Island about 24 June (can't find exact 
> date at the moment, but it was just after the 22nd, which I 
> distinctly remember for a couple reasons). 
>
> Willets, Marbled Godwits, and other prairie breeders discussed in this 
> thread definitely fail and bail (as I say), much like arctic breeders.  
> When I run my BBS routes in the prairies of north central Montana usually 
> between 7-13 June, I'll see groups of 60+ Marbled Godwits.  They likely all 
> had failed nests or didn't nest. I've still never seen a godwit chick, 
> which is concerning since I see young of everything else when I'm 
> stomping around the prairie for a week or more.  I'm sure I've been near 
> some as if you're anywhere near a nest or young, they circle and attack you 
> constantly, sometimes following you for over a mile. This does provide some 
> great photo opps though!
>
> In the case of Long-billed Curlews, several satellite tagged females from 
> Idaho have been on their winter sites in southern Calif for nearly 3 
> weeks!  A couple eastern WY breeders passed through CO already and are in 
> far south Texas and in northern Mexico just south of Brownsville, TX.  
> Another WY breeder is down in the southern end of the Chihuahuan desert in 
> central Mexico!
>
> LB Curlew females bolt and leave the males with parental duty! Adult 
> females get into little groups and head out together. However males arrive 
> back on breeding grounds first.
>
> I've probably shared this page before, here's info on tagged curlews.  
> This is a great organization and partnership. IBO has done a fantastic job 
> on curlew work and outreach in Idaho where they had a lot of tagged curlews 
> shot.
> https://www.curlewcrew.com/  
>
> Scott Somershoe
> Littleton CO
> Co-Author of *Birds of Tennessee: A New Annotated Checklist 
> *
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 9:32 AM Allison Hilf  > wrote:
>
>> There have been some satellite tagged shorebirds heading south for a few 
>> weeks.  Just on schedule.   As Joe mentioned, they are often birds that 
>> failed to nest   Because the time frame for nesting in much of their 
>> preferred arctic habitat is very short, if a first nest fails the adults 
>> often leave; sometimes they attempt a second brood and the female will stay 
>> and try to raise the young on her own.   Those males seem to take care of 
>> themselves!!  Just kidding, it is survival of the fittest out there in the 
>> bird world despite sex.
>>
>> Allison Hilf
>> Aurora, CO
>>
>> On Jul 10, 2020, at 8:40 AM, Joe Roller > 
>> wrote:
>>
>> .
>>
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Re: [cobirds] Jeffco Whimbrel, M. Godwit etc.

[Scott Somershoe]

This is not fully comprehensive but it covers a lot. There's another place
where a lot of tracking projects are collated but I can't remember what it
is at the moment.  It's Friday afternoon :)
http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/

Scott Somershoe
Littleton CO


On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 2:29 PM 'The "Nunn Guy"' via Colorado Birds <
cobirds@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> Hi Scott
>
> Know of an aggregator website that has all project maps of all tagged bird
> species to view real-time various species locations?
>
> Thanks, Gary Lefko, Nunn
> http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org
>
> https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/birds-and-more-of-the-pawnee-national-grassland
>
>
> On Friday, July 10, 2020 at 12:38:46 PM UTC-6, Scott Somershoe wrote:
>>
>> I'll just add a couple notes on these "early" shorebirds.  They are right
>> on time, like others have noted.  The summer solstice is when southbound
>> birds start arriving (yup, June 21 or so). There are always a few birds
>> where you're not sure if they are going south or just didn't go to the
>> arctic or what their direction/status is.  Anyway, as a crazy example, I
>> helped with the Georgia Breeding Bird Atlas in summer 2000 and had a
>> Greater Yellowlegs on Cumberland Island about 24 June (can't find exact
>> date at the moment, but it was just after the 22nd, which I
>> distinctly remember for a couple reasons).
>>
>> Willets, Marbled Godwits, and other prairie breeders discussed in this
>> thread definitely fail and bail (as I say), much like arctic breeders.
>> When I run my BBS routes in the prairies of north central Montana usually
>> between 7-13 June, I'll see groups of 60+ Marbled Godwits.  They likely all
>> had failed nests or didn't nest. I've still never seen a godwit chick,
>> which is concerning since I see young of everything else when I'm
>> stomping around the prairie for a week or more.  I'm sure I've been near
>> some as if you're anywhere near a nest or young, they circle and attack you
>> constantly, sometimes following you for over a mile. This does provide some
>> great photo opps though!
>>
>> In the case of Long-billed Curlews, several satellite tagged females from
>> Idaho have been on their winter sites in southern Calif for nearly 3
>> weeks!  A couple eastern WY breeders passed through CO already and are in
>> far south Texas and in northern Mexico just south of Brownsville, TX.
>> Another WY breeder is down in the southern end of the Chihuahuan desert in
>> central Mexico!
>>
>> LB Curlew females bolt and leave the males with parental duty! Adult
>> females get into little groups and head out together. However males arrive
>> back on breeding grounds first.
>>
>> I've probably shared this page before, here's info on tagged curlews.
>> This is a great organization and partnership. IBO has done a fantastic job
>> on curlew work and outreach in Idaho where they had a lot of tagged curlews
>> shot.
>> https://www.curlewcrew.com/
>>
>> Scott Somershoe
>> Littleton CO
>> Co-Author of *Birds of Tennessee: A New Annotated Checklist
>> *
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 9:32 AM Allison Hilf  wrote:
>>
>>> There have been some satellite tagged shorebirds heading south for a few
>>> weeks.  Just on schedule.   As Joe mentioned, they are often birds that
>>> failed to nest   Because the time frame for nesting in much of their
>>> preferred arctic habitat is very short, if a first nest fails the adults
>>> often leave; sometimes they attempt a second brood and the female will stay
>>> and try to raise the young on her own.   Those males seem to take care of
>>> themselves!!  Just kidding, it is survival of the fittest out there in the
>>> bird world despite sex.
>>>
>>> Allison Hilf
>>> Aurora, CO
>>>
>>> On Jul 10, 2020, at 8:40 AM, Joe Roller  wrote:
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>>
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[cobirds] The Wingate South Park (JeffCo) Black Phoebe has a FAMILY

[Patrick O'Driscoll]

For the past 15 minutes I’ve been watching either two adults and a
fledgling or an adult and two fledgling Black Phoebes (and maybe 2 adults
too) across Carr Street from the east end of the pond. I’d seen the pond
bird catching a few flies near 4 pm and the immediately flying east across
the road to a pine tree behind a cottonwood next to a red-roofed garage
directly across Carr.

There I found two perched phoebes,  one with and the other without the
white breast,  but they were obviously together (and no, it was not one of
the several Say’s Phoebes also at the park). The parent(s) would come and
go.
I’m assuming 2 young and 1-2 adults. I’ll check the photos later when I
file my list.

Good birding!

Patrick O’Driscoll
Denver

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[cobirds] Re: Jeffco Whimbrel, M. Godwit etc.

[Dave Cameron]

This raises a question about migration 'triggers,' so I'll ask it:

I've read in the past that what drives Northbound migrants to start 
migrating is not the weather, which is too variable, but the number of 
hours of daylight.  That was asserted as the birds' sense of calendar, and 
it makes perfect sense.

BUT... if the summer solstice in the Arctic is when they are due to start 
their Southbound return, how on earth do they know when it is?

Dave Cameron
Denver

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[cobirds] Official Response from CPW About Use of State Wildlife Areas

[kevygudguy via Colorado Birds]

Hello Fellow Birders,
I have received an official response from CPW concerning use of SWAs for 
birding, hiking, etc.  This came from their Communication Center in response to 
my inquiry about being allowed onto properties that do not allow fishing, if 
all I have is a fishing license.  I have pasted below what I believe to be the 
salient portion of their reply:
You are correct, a valid hunting or fishing license will be required for 
everyone 18 or older attempting to access any State Wildlife Area or State 
Trust Land leased by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, beginning July 1. This does 
not apply to State Parks. (SWA FAQ). 

Even if the property doesn't have fishing opportunities, a license is still 
required.
The rule change was adopted unanimously on April 30 by the Colorado Parks and 
Wildlife Commission.
SWAs are intended for wildlife habitat and wildlife-related recreation (hunting 
and fishing). Unlike national forests or local government parks, SWAs are not 
“public lands” that provide for multi-use recreation. Most SWAs provide 
important resting, feeding, birthing, or breeding areas for Colorado wildlife. 
In that way, year ‘round outdoor recreation may have negative impacts on the 
wildlife populations in those areas. The license requirement is an effort to 
limit multi-use recreation on these properties, not encourage it. While hikers, 
photographers, birders, and others may in fact be recreating by watching 
wildlife, only those with a hunting or fishing license are contributing to the 
purchase and maintenance of these properties.
...I'm hoping this response from CPW answers everyone's questions and concerns 
about SWA access.
Keep Smilin',Kevin Corwin, west Centennial, Arapahoe
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