Moisture has reinvigorated the eastern plains. Yesterday and today I ran two
Breeding Bird Surveys, one in Washingon County, the other in Yuma County. Along
with other BBS volunteers last summer, I reported that Lark Bunting numbers
were down. This year, numbers were up on both of my routes, ap
The Red-throated Loon that has been at Brush Hollow Reservoir (Fremont County)
since May 19 was seen this morning by Nick Komar and myself. I have a few
photos of the bird on my website:
http://www.pbase.com/birdingwild1/gallery/new_photos.
Cole Wild
Loveland
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We also have house wrens nesting in our box for the second year in a row. We
live on open space in western Highlands Ranch. Last year a pair had great
success with about 5 fledglings.
Lynn Ackerman
Highlands Ranch
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Cobirds:
I've had some pretty wacked out species in my backyard the
last two weeks in suburban Louisville (the weather have something to
do with this?): a singing spotted towhee, a singing hermit thrush,
and this morning (Monday) at 6 to 6:30 a.m. a singing OVENBIRD. The
bird sang for
Dear Cobirders,
I checked the start of the trail in Gregory Canyon this morning (6/8)
between 5:30 AM until just after 6 AM and did not hear or see the
Kentucky Warbler. Things were fairly quiet with only local breeders
singing.
Cheers,
Walter Szeliga
Boulder, CO
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Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date:June 8, 2009
e-mail: r...@cfo-link.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Monday, June 8, 2009 at
5 am sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory.
Highlight species include (*Denotes that there
