compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: September 13, 2011
e-mail: rba@cfo-link
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, September 13, 2011
updated at 5:00 am, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a
The Denver Fall Count at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal NationalWildlife Refuge
recorded 1748 birds of 90 species – same number of species asin the past two
years but 121 more birds than last year but 500 fewer than2009, which had lots
more sparrows.
This count included 6 Barn and 3 Burrowing
Bill Schmoker, last night, presented migration to the Denver AudubonMaster
Birder class. The most important new piece of scientific investigation came
from a class member (I'm not sure which one).
Bill: what prompts a Yellow Warbler to migrate?
Class Member: He gets a Tweet.
Hugh
Yesterday I saw, heard singing, and photographed the Colorado City White-eyed
Vireo. This bird has been around since July when Dave Silverman first found
it. The bird is at Greenhorn Meadows Park, in the west side of the park in the
area where it has been.
Brandon K Percival
Pueblo West, CO
COBirders,
The YELLLOW-THROATED WARBLER reported yesterday by John Drummond at Chico
Basin Ranch (fee area) was with a small flock of Townsend's Warblers, a
Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and a few Wilson's Warblers at Rose Pond (Pueblo)
where it was mostly feeding on unidentified insects taken from
It was an overcast morning, and we got off to a very slow start. There were
a lot of birds moving around, including a two Cooper's Hawks, but it took a
couple of hours for birds to start hitting the nets (and the hawks were gone
by then). Ultimately, things did pick up, and we caught 12 new
Hi COBirders,
Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory banding at Chico Basin Ranch, results for
Tuesday, 9/13/2001.
Slow start today, continued slow but steady - not the waves we saw yesterday.
42 new banded birds today. 19 species netted.
Sounds like the reported warblers were still at HQ on the
My friend Steve Kingswood and I were scoping a flock of some 100 Stilt
Sandpipers at the extreme southwest corner of Prewitt Reservoir today and
noticed a few phalaropes which I assumed to be Wilson's because they had
some buff and reddish on the back. But Steve was not satisfied that they
were
Of course, I meant Black-chinned Hummingbird, not Black-throated
Hummingbird
Sorry
David M Elwonger
Master Bird Bander and Naturalist
Who roosts at 8500' near Woodland Park CO
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Has anyone ever identified the chin of a hummingbird in the field?
Karl Stecher
Centennial
David Elwonger writes:
Of course, I meant Black-chinned Hummingbird, not Black-throated
Hummingbird
Sorry
David M Elwonger
Master Bird Bander and Naturalist
Who roosts at 8500' near Woodland Park
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