Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: July 28, 2012
email:rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, July 28, 2012,
sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory. If you are phoning in a
It is very hot and dry in the Lamar area, but always interesting.
Extreme conditions yield extreme biological activity. Perhaps most interesting
is a situation involving two lone honeylocust trees on Road V a few miles
northwest of Eads (Kiowa). These trees are perhaps 1 mile west of
This morning while Rob Raker and I were trying to confirm breeding for
the Indigo Bunting in Bear Creek Lake Park, we ran across what we
believe to be a young immature male Summer Tanager. The bird was
along the road (both sides) in the seep area just east of Muskrat
Meadows.
I would be
Looks like the eight upldand sandpipers reported as being present yesterday at
Thurston Reservoir by Dave Leatherman are still around. They were in a field
just north of the lake early this morning. Also looks like most of the
long-billed curlews and mountain plovers are gone. The only
This AM (July 28) there was a Short-eared Owl in the weedy area on west side of
Colorado 15, between the two MVNWR pullouts. Not rare, but infrequently seen.
Virginia Simmons, Del Norte
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