I have a safflower seed feeder that hangs by the kitchen window, frequented
this season mostly by house finches, black-capped and sometimes mountain
chickadees, white breasted nuthatches, downy woodpeckers. Yesterday morning, a
black capped chickadee repeatedly flapped against the window,
When I arrived at the Red Rocks feeders about 7:00 a.m., there was a
flock of Rosy-Finches - my guess is 50+. They stayed around until the
sun hit the feeders, and then took off. At least we have a pretty
good idea that the Rosy's are using Red Rocks to roost. Took my dog
for a walk and
Total raptors: 66
American Kestrel - 16
Rough-legged hawk - 14
Northern Harrier - 4
Ferruginous Hawk - 2
Red-tailed Hawk - 17
Prairie Falcon - 5
Golden Eagle - 6
Bald Eagle - 2 (one at Black Hollow nest)
Lots of pix being posted below--give me a few hours. :-)
Thanks
Gary Lefko
The juvenile Yellow-bellied Sapsucker continues to hang out in the large Scots
Pine on the west side of the ditch in the northeast corner of Grandview
Cemetery, Fort Collins (Larimer). This bird can be amazingly wary and will
probably prove elusive if you park under the tree or walk right up
The highlight of an otherwise unspectacular day birding Saturday was a FOY
Great Horned Owl on the nest on the southeast side of I-76. At 65 mph it was
hard to pinpoint the location - somewhere east of the 88th St exit.
The only other surprise was a Mountain Chickadee at Barr Lake SP.
Chuck
All,
John Vanderpoel and I birded some Boulder and Denver locations today.
The Tundra Swan remains at Valmont Res seen from the south overlook.
A 2nd-cycle Lesser Black-backed Gull was on the ice at the small lake
on the east side of Lowell just south of Hwy 7 in Broomfield County.
We then
Must be that time of year. I noticed a pair of tufts on the nest
located just to the SW of the corner of 120th and Federal this afternoon.
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Charles Hundertmark cahm...@q.com wrote:
The highlight of an otherwise unspectacular day birding Saturday was a FOY
Hello, Birders.
Bill Kaempfer and I traveled from Boulder County to Grand Junction, Mesa
County, and back these past few days, Jan. 28th-30th. Here's a summary of what
we found:
Jan. 28, Silverthorne, Summit County. 32 Barrow's Goldeneyes at the sewer
treatment plant on the north side of
I went out to Pueblo lake to see the birds Brandon Percival had
reported a few days ago. It was a great trip, saw and photographed:
Greater black backed gull (by south marina)
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