[cobirds] Black-throated Sparrows just a few miles south of Canon City

Yesterday I found Black-throated Sparrows in the same area where I found 5-6 Black-throated Sparrows (adults and juveniles) in July, 2009. Though I was unable to document breeding then, I believed this species had bred in or very near this area which is one of my Colo Breeding Bird Atlas II

[cobirds] Eastern Warbling-Vireos at Walden Ponds, Boulder County

Hello, Birders. Back on Thursday evening, June 9th, Hannah and Andrew and I saw and heard a pair of apparent Eastern Warbling-Vireos at Walden Ponds, Boulder County. For now, of course, there is officially just the one species of warbling-vireo, referred to as Warbling Vireo, Vireo gilvus.

[cobirds] Mesa Trail complex, Boulder County, June 12th

Hello, Birders. Marcel Such and Joel Such and I had a nice amble (hah!--it was a mountain marathon) around the Mesa Trail complex of southeastern Boulder County early yesterday morning, Sunday, June 12th. Here are some highlights: Owls and nightjars. Several Northern Pygmy-Owls and Northern

[cobirds] Summer Tanager - Mesa County

While doing Atlas work on the Western Slope last week, I observed an immature male Summer Tanager in the Escalante Forks area in Mesa County on June 7. It was foraging in and around an old farm house in what once had been a lawn and orchard (now reverted to a wild state). I was on

[cobirds] Colorado RBA, Monday, June 13, 2011

Date:   June 13, 2011 e-mail: rba@cfo-link. phone: 303-659-8750 compiler:  Joyce Takamine This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Monday, June 13, 2011 updated at 7AM,sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.  If you are phoning in a message, you can skip

[cobirds] Ovenbirds - Jefferson County

I did my annual Ovenbird Count in Willow Springs Open Space (WSOS) this year on June 3 4 with the help of Michael Kiessig and Audrey Boag. The survey produced 19 (maybe 20) singing Ovenbirds. Each year I have done the survey, I have had 19 - 21 singing Ovenbirds in WSOS. Mike Henwood

[cobirds] More Cassin's Sparrow/Nunn

Three Cassin's Sparrow singing in SE and NE fields of WCR 100/33 near our house this morning. The other spots to check are WCR 102/33 go east about .5 miles to Rabbitbrush collection on north. Also, along WCR 37 and WCR 41 north of WCR 100 are usual areas they can be found singing. Grasshopper

[cobirds] Western Gull roosting near South Platte inflow, sunset 12 June 2011

Hello CO-BIRDS, Liz and I, at long last, found some time to head up to Chatfield Reservoir and search for the Western Gull. With the usual wall to wall weekend recreationists, it took us a couple of hours and two visits (before and after a great dinner at the Damascus Grill in Littleton), but

[cobirds] Gregory Canyon flycatcher, 6/13

I rose early this morning to try to get recordings of the possible Pacific-slope Flycatcher in Gregory Canyon. I was hoping to get recordings of both the dawn song and the position note, and I thought I did, but upon examining the spectrograms of my recordings, it became clear that the bird

[cobirds] Black-chinned Sparrows - Mesa County - Sat 6/11

CObirders, Sorry for the late report but I did have two singing Black-chinned Sparrows at Colorado National Monument on Saturday. Both were in the vicinity of the Devil's Kitchen and No Thoroughfare Canyon trails confluence with the first about 400 meters up and the second only about 50 meters up

[cobirds] Boulder Birds

There were two Snowy Egrets at Clover Basin Reservoir this afternoon, as well as three Great Egrets. eBird shows only one other June record for Snowy Egret in Boulder County, although there are several July records. There were American Dippers at Boulder Creek and 75th again this morning, which

[cobirds] late CFO and MI bird photos

Sorry to be so late with a few photos of another great CFO convention in Grand Junction. Thanks to all who made it possible, and even brought out the sun for the final days! I just returned from visiting family in MI where we birded Kensington Metropark near Ann Arbor, thanks to a tip from

[cobirds] Strange Oriole - Louviers - Dougco

Birders, On Saturday, June 11, Tom Halverstadt lead a group into a presently closed area of the DuPont Property in Louviers that may soon be open as Dougco Open Space. We were looking for Yellow-billed Cuckoo that he had seen there fairly regularly as of late. We found them and are pretty sure

[cobirds] Broad-winged Hawk - Jeffco

Birders, The Broad-winged Hawk continues at Welchester Tree Park in Lakewood as of this morning, June 13. Ira Sanders Golden, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to this group, send email to

[cobirds] Cockatiel - Belmar Park - Jeffco

Birders, This a.m. at Belmar Park in Lakewood, there was a Cockatiel in the willows at the east end of the slough. Anybody know anyone that has lost one? Ira Sanders Golden CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To post to

[cobirds] Gregory Canyon Western Fly

Greetings Nathan, Thanks for putting in the work to record this bird. Cell phone dead yesterday, and due to alimentary ailments unable to do much of anything today. My memory (here is where the brain does weird things to what you hear and see) had this bird's call note as more bipartite,