[cobirds] Chico Days (El Paso Pueblo)

2009-04-10 Thread Bill Maynard
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

[cobirds] Re: Fledgling Eurasian Collared Doves, Larimer

2009-04-10 Thread Nunn Guy
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?

[cobirds] Great-tailed Grackle/Wellington SWA

2009-04-10 Thread Nunn Guy
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

[cobirds] Turkey Vulture, etc., Rio Grande County

2009-04-10 Thread Virginia Simmons
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

[cobirds] Raptors, Colorado Springs, Friday

2009-04-10 Thread Steven Brown
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

[cobirds] Pueblo and El Paso birding

2009-04-10 Thread David Chartier
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,

[cobirds] Snowy egrets, El Paso County

2009-04-10 Thread SUKE C LEE
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

[cobirds] Weld County on 4/10

2009-04-10 Thread Dave Leatherman
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

[cobirds] info on reporting wing-tagged TVs

2009-04-10 Thread rostrhamus
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

[cobirds] Bird courtship and breeding

2009-04-10 Thread HATCHFN
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

[cobirds] Turkey Vulture kettle, so. Boulder Co.

2009-04-10 Thread Paula Hansley
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

[cobirds] Breeding plumage Horned Grebe/Mymm Ackley

2009-04-10 Thread 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