[cobirds] Re: Anyone Writing Weekly/Monthly Stories About Birds For Colorado Newspaper/Media?

2012-07-07 Thread Kathleen Sharpe
HI Gary, Several years ago, a group of ladies from Platte and Prairie Audubon provided a regular column to the Greeley Trib under the title Platte and Prairie Naturally or something like that, but even between the three of us, we just could not sustain it. Dan England of the Tribune was an en

[cobirds] Black goose identified!

2012-07-07 Thread Dave Hyde
Hi all, Yesterday I went back to Walden Ponds and took some photos of the black goose there. It is not a goose but a duck. Still, big and black, what kind of duck is that? Having eliminated all wild species I knew this had to be a barnyard duck of some sort. There's a lot of varieties in the b

[cobirds] Re: El paso Warbler ID help (pictures)

2012-07-07 Thread kickback
Thanks for all of the replies, all of which were yellow warbler. Bill On Saturday, July 7, 2012 2:42:28 PM UTC-6, kickback wrote: > What kind of warbler is this? Is it a juvenile? The coloration around the > eye is baffling. The last picture (*6849*) is the best to look at. > > http://www.av

[cobirds] Little Blue Heron Adams County

2012-07-07 Thread Chuck
This morning Gail and I viewed the Little Blue Heron first sighted by Diane Carter on June 28th and again seen by her yesterday. The location is the first pond north of 88th Avenue by the Platte River Trail. The Little Blue was standing on the far shore to the right of the beaver lodge and behind t

[cobirds] Little Blue Heron Adams County

2012-07-07 Thread Charles Lowrie
Diane, This morning Gail and I viewed the Little Blue Heron first sighted by Diane Carter on June 28th and again seen by her yesterday. The location is the first pond north of 88th Avenue by the Platte River Trail. The Little Blue was standing on the far shore to the right of the beaver lodge a

[cobirds] Red-throated Loon in Bent County

2012-07-07 Thread Duane Nelson
Birders, The first-summer Red-throated Loon I reported to cobirds on July 3rd on at John Martin Reservoir (Bent County) was present in exactly the same location on July 7th. It is on the south side of the reservoir, about one to one and one-half miles west of the dam, just offshore of the fif

[cobirds] El paso Warbler ID help (pictures)

2012-07-07 Thread kickback
What kind of warbler is this? Is it a juvenile? The coloration around the eye is baffling. The last picture (*6849*) is the best to look at. http://www.avoapples.com/birds/IMG_6847_cr.jpg http://www.avoapples.com/birds/IMG_6848_cr.jpg http://www.avoapples.com/birds/IMG_6849_cr.jpg Seen in Palm

[cobirds] Huerfano County Update: Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Dickcissels, Bobolinks, Virginia Rail, Wilson's Snipe

2012-07-07 Thread Polly Neldner
It was a lovely, cool, overcast morning in La Veta and led to some very enjoyable birding! Sitting on the side porch listening to the dawn chorus full of Spotted Towhee, Yellow Warbler, American Robin, American and Lesser Goldfinch and the partial call of a Yellow-billed Cuckoo. Next we, after bre

[cobirds] eBird reports - Denver Spring & Fall counts

2012-07-07 Thread Hugh Kingery
Folowing up on Tony's effusive email about the Denver Spring and Fall counts on eBird. For anyone interested in trying to analyze these counts (and I hope someone out there does -- that's one big reason for posting it), I have a summary memo for each of Spring & Fall. So far I've posted all the

[cobirds] unusual behavior, East Boulder County

2012-07-07 Thread R Carol Cushman
A few months ago there were several posts regarding birds using their wings to climb trees. This morning I watched a just-fledged kestrel use its wings to help it climb up a cottonwood trunk. About two weeks ago I watched a "cheater" male Bullock's oriole peck through the base of a trumpet vine