[cobirds] Panama Rez, Boulder County, has many shorebirds

Hello, Birders. The good news is, Andrew and I saw a great throng of shorebirds at Panama Reservoir, Boulder County, late this afternoon, Sunday, September 25th. The bad news is, The shorebirds were tremendously distant, being on the southwest shore, about as far from the north-central shore (

[cobirds] Weld County: BW Hawk, Am Golden Plovers

Greetings All, This morning, at about 7 am, Rachel Hopper and I had a BROAD-WINGED HAWK at Crow Valley Campground. It apparently had roosted there, and departed quickly. Crow Valley had little else of interest, but Joey Kellner and friends had a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW at Norma's Grove first th

[cobirds] Last Chance, Washington County, this afternoon

Mid to late afternoon today, we birded Last Chance. We saw: Numerous American Robins One Townsend's Solitair One Gray Catbird (heard) One Blue-gray Gnatcatcher A pair of Blue Jays Numerous Yellow-rumped Warblers A few Wilson's Warblers One Nashville Warbler One possible female Common Yellowthro

[cobirds] RMBO Barr Banding Station Update, 9/25/11

No one found the Black-throated Blue Warbler or the Philadelphia Vireo again today, so we bandedguess what?.Chipping Sparrows. Thirty of our 46 new birds today were Chippers, bringing the season total to 261. This compares with 42 CHSPs at this time last year. On the other hand, we h

[cobirds] Five American Golden-Plovers and a Black-bellied Plover at birdy BYO Playa, Weld County

Thanks to Rudi Nuissl for posting his observation of American Golden Plover at the playa that straddles Weld County Road 75 between Roads 100 and 102, all of which are a few miles north of Crow Valley Campground, north of Murphy's Pasture in Weld County. Joe Himmel told me that he has been visitin

[cobirds] More on photo sequence of Scissor-tailed Flycatcher showing it casting a pellet

It was very late last night when I posted that I just wanted to get the essential info out and get to bed. I thought some might be interested in what I observed when the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher casted out the pellet. I first noticed the bird lift it's head high up at least at a 90 degree angle

[cobirds] Colorado RBA, Sunday September 25, 2011

compiler:  Joyce Takamine Date:   September 25, 2011 e-mail: rba@cfo-link phone: 303-659-8750 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, September 25, 2011 updated at 5:00 am, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.  If you are phoning in a message,

[cobirds] Salida area white hummingbird

This past week I found out that the white hummer that I reported on that had been seen at a feeder near Salida at the end of August was still around and coming to a neighbor's feeder. I drove up and got some good photos that I have now posted to my Birds and Blooms