Extreme southeast corner, Grandview Cemetery, west terminus of Mountain Avenue,
Fort Collins, Larimer County, CO:
The White-winged Crossbills continue their visit (Day 134) and nesting attempt.
On warm days, both parents are gone from the nest quite a bit. Leaving the
nest unattended is not w
Not the busiest day today, bird-wise, at Barr, but some highlights:
Fervent nest-building actvity by a great many Great Blue Herons and DC
Cormorants
Two gorgeous breeding-plumage Horned Grebes
8 Wood Ducks, incl 3 pairs and 2 bachelors
Possible Lesser Black-backed Gull
A very active pair of Kestr
Denver Field Ornithologists
April 2010 Field Trips
Saturday, April 10 Aurora’s Ponderosa Pine Preserve
Leader: Mary Ann Bonnell, 303-739-2428. Must register with leader for
meeting time and place. Area offers montane birding in a prairie setting.
Mary Ann will know the lat
I retraced Cole Wild's route last night. Jackson CR-21 two very distant owls.
Moose visitor center, one close calling owl in the parking lot that then moved
across the road. In Larimer I stopped at the first parking lot east of Cameron
Pass and had one calling close to the bathroom.
Todd Deini
This morning (4/4) Nick Komar and I tried to relocate some of the interesting
gulls found yesterday in Weld County.
Black Hollow Reservoir
GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL - 1 first cycle bird (Nick thought it was a different
bird than he saw yesterday)
ICELAND GULL - 2 1st cycle birds, one of them
More Mountain Plovers--by far a "banner day" for me for total plover
seen in single day -- 19 (8 from earlier post included)!!
Mountain Plover
WCR 100/37 NE - 2 (one mile from house)
WCR 114/37 SE (Burn area) - 3
1.5M S of WCR 120/Hwy 85 on E - 1 (seen one here last three years)
WCR 96 between WCR
I stopped by City Park yesterday (Saturday), looking at trees FULL of Cormorant
nests. After looking and looking, finally found the
owl nest (Great-horned) about half way up one of the trees covered with
Double-crested Cormorant nests. LOTS. She was on the nest, seemed to be
moving eggs
We invite qualified observers to participate in the Breeding Bird
Survey. Participants must have the skills to identify the likely species on
their routes by sight and by sound. We still have quite a few available routes,
including several not listed on last month's invitation.
Mountain Plover - 8
Hwy 14/WCR 51 - 6 (group that hung together whole time I was watching
them)
WCR 96/43 - 2 (individuals in a bare field on SE-half the one-mile
section is bare) -- not a traditional location.
No Burrowing Owls yet.
Thanks
Gary Lefko, Nunn/CO
http://ColoradoBirder.ning.com/ --
One of the first singing birds I heard after stepping outside this morning
was a Sage Thrasher! This is yard species #165 for my yard on the North
Fork of the Gunnison River near Poania. Sure sounded like spring out there
this morning!!
--
Jason Beason
Special Monitoring Projects Coordinator
Ro
This report came in overnight:
This morning there was a male Vermilion Flycatcher in Comanche
National Grasslands, .2 miles west of the corner of RD 21 and RD J.
The bird was hanging around the fence posts and low bushes near the
house on the north side of the road. We saw the bird aroun
Actually, the map looks a lot worse for western Nebraska and Kansas, and all
of South Dakota, compared with us...even eastern Colorado.
Reminds me of the Mormon crops being saved, prompting the Beach Boys to
write, "Wish they all could be California gulls." (Apologies to Joe Roller,
who will
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