[cobirds] Where the gulls are, Boulder County

Hello, Birders. If you're looking for rare gulls in Boulder County, Panama Reservoir is the place to be these days. Yesterday afternoon, Sunday, March 11th, in nice flat light, I saw 2 or 3 adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 2 end-of-first-cycle Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 2 adult Thayer's

[cobirds] Golden-crowned Sparrow - Red Rocks - Jeffco

Hi All, A young man named Jay and I watched the Golden-crowned Sparrow put in an appearance under the platform feeders at the Red Rocks Trading Post about 8:10 this morning. The number of juncos seems to be reduced considerably from a week ago. The PS x WW cross was there early.

[cobirds] Cassin's Finches - by the hundreds - Brown's Creek, Chaffee Co

While travelling back from San Luis Valley on Sunday, I stopped at a location where I did an RMBO transect several years back - Brown's Creek, Chaffee County. It is off Hwy 285 and CR 270. You take it back to the foot hills east of Antero Peak. I got out of my car near where the side road to

[cobirds] Small Black-Blue bird at feeder FRiday at home.

Hi Cobirders. Most birders get to come across a bird they can't identify even if they see it well at least a few times in birding. I have seen quite a few. Friday afternoon I noticed at the feeder between the Kitchen window and the Choke-cherry tree a tiny bird about 4 which was all very

[cobirds] Swans near Loveland, Larimer County

I drove west down County Road 16 from Hwy 287 until it dead-ended. From there, I had a vantage point over Bud Mielke Reservoir and saw a swan on the west side of the lake that did not appear to be a mute swan. Unfortunately, I did not have my scope so I could not tell for sure. As I was leaving,

[cobirds] American Eagle's Nest Active in Fort Collins

Yesterday we were visiting friends who live on Ptarmigan Golf Course - in Fort Collins (east of I-25 / 392) and just north of the edge of the golf course is, what has become an annual nesting of a pair of Eagles. They have returned and we watched them in their nest (cottonwood tree) just north

[cobirds] HSR: Dinosaur Ridge (12 Mar 2012) 2 Raptors

Dinosaur Ridge Colorado, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 12, 2012 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black Vulture0

[cobirds] Roaring Fork - negative data

Hi all, I looked at Coryell Ranch ponds at dusk this evening, hoping to count a record number of Barrow's Goldeneyes.. Pah.. there were none at 7.25pm, just four Ring-necked Ducks and a Muskrat ! and a backhoe, parked by a big pile of freshly dug dirt next to one of the ponds.. I headed

Re: [cobirds] Cassin's Finches - by the hundreds - Brown's Creek, Chaffee Co

Jeff et al., This sounds like a remarkable observation, and it far surpasses anything in my experience, even though I've seen Cassin's Finches in what I thought were large singing flocks at this time of year (dozens of birds, but still less than 100). However, the Birds of North America account