compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: October 6, 2011
e-mail: rba@cfo-link
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, October 6, 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
There was a Red-bellied Woodpecker at my home in SE Fort Collins back on
October 26, 2002. I was not yet into digital photography of birds, so I
can't provide photo confirmation of the bird. However, I am intimately
familiar with the species, having grown up birding in the East. Its
unique
Suffice it to say Red-bellied Woodpecker is rare anywhere in CO away from the
extreme eastern edge of the state (say, within 75 miles of the KA and NE
borders. But they do occur elsewhere from time to time as others have
indicated. They are somewhat expected in riparian woodlands dominated
Thursday 10/ 6/11 was another busy morning banding at Clear Springs Ranch
(CSR),*
After the hour, I had to close the nets for an hour while I caught up with
the banding!
We had 4 recaptures from earlier this Fall, plus 34 new birds of 6 different
species.
New for the season was a hatch year male
Has anyone tried to find the ruff reported yesterday by Nick Komar?
Maggie Boswell
Boulder
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Nick
What are the boundaries of the southside park? Can you walk all the
way around the reservoir on shore? If not, where are the boundaries
for us, if you know?
Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn
hhtp://coloradobirder.ning.com/
On Oct 5, 11:42 am, Nick Komar quetza...@comcast.net wrote:
At about 8:15
The wind was a problem today - we only opened the outer, most sheltered
nets, and then only until about 10 a.m., when the wind really started
gusting. Nevertheless, had some fun birds, including our likely
only-of-season White-throated Sparrow, a Cassin's Vireo and a Flicker
Integrade (orange-red
Katrina Stowasser and I went up to Gilpin County today for a morning of county
birding and everything I mention from this outing can be found on page 39 in
the CO Delorme Atlas and/or the county birding website
(http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/county/bird_a_county.php?name=Gilpin). We
got
Hi all, On 10/5, I made a quick trip out to Last Chance[ at the intersection of
highway 36 and highway 71]. It was mostly a Sparrow day with at least 28,
White-crowned Sparrows[all Gambel's except 3 being Mountain]In with the
White-crowned were 1, Harris's Sparrow, and 1, White-throated
Had to take time to attend to other business before finishing my report from
'Lamar Woods' last Fri,Sat Sun. After missing Red-bellied Woodpecker, a
resident specialty, at 'Lamar Woods' earlier last week I got to enjoy one as
he fed and stored the 'olive' fruit of Russian Olive trees that were
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