compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: September 2, 2011
e-mail: rba@cfo-link
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, September 3, 2011
updated at 5:00 am, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message,
A Burrowing Owl was in the northwest corner by the footbridge this morning
standing on a Prairie Dog mound.
Also, the water level in low with a lot of shore on the north side that held
one lone shorebird that might have been the Spotted Sandpiper I saw earlier.
Todd Deininger
Longmont, CO
For almost an hour I watched a female Virginia's Warbler feeding on the
ground and in a cottonwood. She stayed near the lawn area just west of the
pond.
Stellers Jay
Pigme Nuthatch
Mountain Chickadee
Spotted Towhee
2 open ID warblers
Lesser Goldfinch
Cade Cropper-Loveland
PS. I just got back in t
Today was my best day yet this fall for migrant songbirds in Canon City.
This morning I found an all red, male Summer Tanager along the Arkansas
Riverwalk. It was about 150 yds. west of the MacKensie Ave parking lot.
Other
migrants seen today on the Riverwalk were a Northern Waterthrush,
Hi Everyone--
Today 9/3 Marcia Marvin and I drove around the Pawnee Grasslands. We found
several pockets of migrants at Crow Valley, including 3 Western Wood-Pewees,
a Willow Flycatcher, a Hammond's Flycatcher, 3 Eastern Kingbirds, a
first-year MacGillivray's Warbler, and 2 Wilson's Warblers at th
A slow banding dayVery windy for the first couple of hours. As the wind
died down, we saw and heard flocks of warblers and sparrows high up but very
few came down to net level. Today's breakdown (20 total):
Mourning Dove1
Western Wood-pewee 1
Dusky Flycatcher 1
Ho
This morning I did not hear the Least Bitterns calling at all, nor see any
sign of them in cattails where they have been seen over the past week.
Expecting that the fledglings are old enough that they moved from the nest
site like many birds I went looking for the proverbial 'needle in a
haystack'-
