Compiler: Mary Driscoll
Date: January 13, 2012
e-mail: r...@cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Friday, January 13, 2012 sponsored by
Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you
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This year, the number of robins persisting through the winter in the
foothills has become a topic non-birders of my acquaitnance are
commenting on. I too suspect the juniper berry crop is higher this
year due to summer moisture, and the Robins and Townsend's Solitaires
may be competing for this res
Does anyone have experience using Sibley's eGuide for North American Birds on
Kindle Fire? It was recently redesigned to work on IPad, but I can't determine
whether it will work on the new Kindle Fire. Any tips or info will be much
appreciated. I'm especially hoping that it can be used in the f
Woodpecker identification has never been my strong suit….I've got a daily
visitor that looks to be a Downy but there's no red cap…..is that a Male vs.
Female distinction? Have I misidentified it altogether?
Brook Watts
Longmont
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A NorthernGoshawk delighted Lynn Willcockson’s Urban Christmas
Count group when itperched on a power pole in suburban Cherry Hills – at Colo.
Blvd. &Mansfield! Doris Cruze mentioned “a Ring-billed Gullstanding in the
middle of the (South Platte) river, and the water came up only
A baker's dozen intrepid birders gathered today and bravely faced a 20+ mph
cold (41 degrees) wind
(predicted to have been on a 12 mph) and after a fuitless hour at the
roadrunner
site on Dinosaur Ridge, decided to walk away and try it another day.
Weather for
tomorrow's scheduled trip is predicted
The Golden-crowned Sparrow showed up under the lower apple tree about
7:27 A.M. this morning. If you are planning on visiting the feeders
at Red Rocks this weekend, plan on bringing some seed with you. I
will be unable to visit the feeders this weekend.
Mike Henwood
Morrison
Jefferson Cou
After visiting Red Rocks this morning, I drove to the Boat Launch area
in Bear Creek Lake Park (BCLP). Found both the adult and 1st year
Harris's Sparrows feeding in a large mixed flock of sparrows just to
the east of the parking lot. As near as I could tell, the mixed flock
included:
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