[cobirds] Colorado RBA, Thursday October 13, 2011

compiler:  Joyce Takamine Date:   October 13, 2011 e-mail: rba@cfo-link phone: 303-659-8750 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, October 13, 2011 updated at 5:00 am, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.  If you are phoning in a message, yo

[cobirds] RFI on Walker Ranch Boulder Co

I will be in Boulder the 22nd of this month with some non-birders, I want to look for a Three-toed Woodpecker and my only option is going to be the Walker Ranch area. I would appreciate information on a specific area that will give me the best chance to see one. I realize it will probably be a long

[cobirds] Manitou Lake, Teller County, Sage Thrasher and Field Sparrow

I went back out yesterday afternoon to attempt to get a photo of the Field Sparrow. Alas, where there was a group of 4 Spizellas (1 field, 1 brewer's and 2 chipping), now there was only 3 - just the 2 chippie's and 1 brewer's. The 4th was nowhere to be found. I did get a few photos of the 3 Spi

[cobirds] Washington co.: American Golden-plover -10/12/11

Yesterday, there was one AMGP on the W-SW side of Prewitt Reservoir. This was in the "pond" just south of the small, isolated patch of dying trees and shrubs (which had one imm. Bald Eagle...possibly 3rd cycle). Lighting was very poor, but I believe it was a juvenile. One f/1st-winter Lark Bunt

[cobirds] Gunnison's Sage-Grouse in early March?

Hello Colorado birders, I am planning a driving trip from Michigan to California next year in late February and early March. On my way back home, I'd like to try to see a Gunnison Sage-Grouse. How difficult are they to see this time of year? Are there areas to search that time of year where I coul

[cobirds] SW Loveland Rarities

This morning I was outside at my house (from 9-10) in SW Loveland when I started hearing a lot of birds migrating over. There was a lot of Yellow-rumped Warblers, bluebirds, even head the distinct call of a SPRAGUE'S PIPIT, and a handful of calls that I wasn't able to ID. So, I grabbed my binocu

[cobirds] Pueblo county --- LONG-TAILED JAEGER (juvenile)

COBirders, Brandon Percival found a juvenile LONG-TAILED JAEGER in the State Wildlife Area of Pueblo Reservoir.  It is currently between the SWA and Turkey Creek which is west of the SWA.   - Mark Peterson Colorado Springs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

[cobirds] Sage Sparrow - BCLP -Jeffco

Along with Michael Kiessig and Mike Foster I was surprised to see and watch a Sage Sparrow (interior race) make it's way down a foot path in Bear Creek Lake Park (BCLP) this morning about 10:00 A.M. This is the only Sage Sparrow I have observed at BCLP in my 5-6 years of birding the park

[cobirds] Crow Valley, Weld Co

Tom and Mary France went out to Crow Valley today near Briggsdale, CO, in Weld CO. The gate is shut and the sing says “Closed For The Season. Tom and Mary France Fort Collins, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group

[cobirds] Pueblo Reservoir Boat Trip 10/13 -- LONG-TAILED JAEGER

Hi all, Thanks to Mark Peterson for getting the word out on the Long-tailed Jaeger. Mike Basse (the excellent boat driver and boat owner), along with Kelly Shipe and Jeannie Mitchell, did a boat trip on Pueblo Reservoir today.  It took about 3 1/2 hours to get the boat going, though it was wel

[cobirds] RMBO Barr Banding Station Update, 10/13/11

The kind of fall day that makes me wish the banding season would never end! Cool, crisp, sunny day with a great variety of birds, from a 5.4 gram Ruby-crowned Kinglet to a 94.9 gram Blue Jay. Some migrant species that I thought we wouldn't see again until spring. Enthusiastic first graders on the

[cobirds] Crow Valley Campground

I think Joe Roller is correct in saying the usual procedure at Crow Valley Campground (Weld) is for the USFS to close the campground about this time of year to vehicle traffic but allow walk-ins all winter. I think the vault toilet at the east end by the ballfield is open all winter, but the bi

[cobirds] Canyon Towhee, Pueblo Reservoir

Camping out overnight at Pueblo Reservoir, I came upon a Canyon Towhee in the Northern Plains campground. You can find a photo on my blog at http://birdsbybill.blogspot.com/2011/10/pueblo-reservoir-october-2011.html Birding was kind of slow, but also saw an Osprey working the river, and a flock o

[cobirds] Sedgwick co.: Lapland Longspurs - 10/13/11

At least two LALOs were on the SE side of Jumbo Reservoir today, mixed in w/ about four other un-identified longspurs (possibly all Laps?) and a few American Pipits. This was at the southern end of the private property there, NE of the dam. There was one (adult, I think) Greater White-fronted Go