Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: September 18, 2012
email: rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, September 18, 2012,
sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory. If you are
September 18, 2012
Good morning to all!
I just received a call from a representative at Colorado Springs Utilities.
They have a hawk in the rafters of one of their truck bays that has been there
for a day or two. They would like to know if someone can help get it out. They
have already
This apparent first-fall female bird is confiding and was the 3rd bird I
saw after getting out of my car
just before noon today. It was moving about in the trees, about 8-20 feet
off the ground and
appeared without any pishing, but was very attracted to quiet pishing later
on.
I followed it for 20
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Hi COBirders,
Full report for today to follow.
After a really slow start this morning we had some good birds show-up about
10:00. In particular - a much discussed and analyzed hatch-year warbler we
identified as a Blackpoll Warbler, sex not determined. Soon after a hatch-year
Blue-headed
Hi COBirders,
If you are interested - here is the link to Picasa to view todays pictures for
hatch-year Blackpoll Warbler, Blue-headed Vireo and Lincoln's Sparrow.
Steve Brown
Colorado Springs
Subject: link
This is the most fun fall warbler birding I have had in a long time. I could
hardly find any reason to come home, I was having so much fun.
Thanks to Joe Roller for finding this flock.
I got over there at 3:15 today, and heard the birds as soon as I got out of the
car. I parked on the east
Okay, Charles and Joe-here is the challenge you were afraid of. What's the
tree! As Dave Leatherman preaches to us, if you know 600 bird species by call
note and secondary coverts, you can at least learn 6 tree species.
Hackberry might be the most important of them all.
This late afternoon between 5:00 and 6:00 I was birding in the Cobb Lake
Unit of the Wellington State Wildlife Area in Larimer County. This Unit is
located between East County Roads 56 and 58, and just west of North County
Road 3. Decent birds were a Townsend's Solitaire, Say's Phoebe,
