Hi all,
It's that time of year again. I am going to begin my annual fall owl banding
project. The first evening will be this coming Monday evening the 22nd of
August beginning at dark with the hopes of catching Flammulated Owls. I will be
trapping after dark for a few hours each evening until t
Hi everybody,
About 10:30 this morning, the Tuesday Birders were treated to about 15-20
minutes of watching an American Three-toed Woodpecker on the Upper Maxwell
Falls hiking trail. The bird was seen pecking chunks of bark off a dead
Lodgepole Pine about half-way from the parking area to the fal
Hi all:
I recently entertained a query from a friend as to why the Colorado Bird
Records Committee (CBRC) asks for documentation of occurrences of certain
species that are regular (some are common) in parts of the state, but rare or
non-existent in other parts of the state (see
http://www.cfo-
We have added two "firsts" to our 4-year-old yard list in the past two
days. Last evening at dusk, we heard and briefly saw in the gloom a Northern
Pygmy Owl. In fact, we might have sighted a second one. While we live in its
normal habitat, we have never heard one before and assume that this
Hi cobirders. Monday at 6PM a flock of 30 or 40 Common Grackles came
in from the north and landed in the
front yard some in the small tree and most on the lawns. Calm
scattered white clouds. In another 5 minutes they
were gone south. Migration is happening.
Bob Spencer NE of Golden
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COBirders,
If the text message on my cell phone is from today, Brandon Percival saw the
Holcim Marsh, Fremont County, Least Bittern today at 0620.
Bill Maynard
Colorado Springs
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I "commuted" via Greeley to Fort Collins from Nunn ... :-)
Antelope Reservoir-dry
Crom Lake
Least Sandpiper
Ault cornfield near WCR 41
Mourning Dove - 150+
Cozzen Lake-lots of H2O
Nothing exciting
35th Ave Gravel Pond (West)-western shore exposed again
Franklin's Gull - 100+
Caspian Tern - fly
compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: August 16, 2011
e-mail: rba@cfo-link.
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, August 16, 2011
updated at 5:00 am, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message, you
Just a very quick note that I returned at 6:50 am to Holcim Wetlands where I
found Rich Miller who had been there since the crack of dawn. He was
watching a juvenile Black-crowned Night-Heron. That made me happy as it may
confirm breeding there for this species (have to look that up) which I had
