[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, Saturday, November 3, 2012

2012-11-03 Thread Joyce Takamine
Compiler: Joyce Takamine Date: November 3, 2012 email: rba AT cfobirds.org phone: 303-659-8750 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, November 3, 2012, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If y

[cobirds] Murrelet Vagrancy Patterns

2012-11-03 Thread Steven Mlodinow
Greetings All, The occurrence (up to 15 years or so ago) of Long-billed and Ancient Murrelets with weather patterns have been carefully studied: Dr. Steven Feldstein of Pennsylvania StateUniversity's Earth System Science Center reviewed interior and easternLong-billed Murrelet sightings to s

[cobirds] Cedar Waxwings in Denver's Southeast Suburbs

2012-11-03 Thread KevyGudGuy
I had a flock of 8 - 12 cedar waxwings in my little townhouse yard in west Centennial yesterday, near Holly St & Arapahoe Rd. They were in the company of the gazillion robins that have been consuming the crabapples on the ornamental trees in the community. Have also had a couple of Townsen

[cobirds] Ruby-crowned Kinglet at home

2012-11-03 Thread Robert A. Spencer
Hi cobirders. This morning the female Ruby-crowned Kinglet checked out the Chokecherry tree at my kitchen window for a short time. It came before about a week ago. I have a small Dark-eyed Junco coming regularly near here too. Watch those birds at home (and try to get work done too)!

[cobirds] County lists updates

2012-11-03 Thread Mark Peterson
COBirders, Please have any list updates to me by Wednesday, November 7th.  I will only be updating the lifetime totals this month.   - Mark Peterson Colorado Springs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group,

[cobirds] Common Loon, Baseline Reservoir, Boulder County & other lakes

2012-11-03 Thread jharlan
There was a single Common Loon at Baseline Reservoir, at 1100 AM today. During the ~40 minutes I was there, it remained near the middle of the lake diving repeatedly. The only other waterfowl were Common Goldeneye (9), Bufflehead (5) and a single Eared Grebe. Thomas Reservoir & Stearns Lake: d

[cobirds] Birders thank Last Chance, Washington County

2012-11-03 Thread Tom Wilberding
Hello COBirders, We all enjoy seeing, hearing, and studying Colorado birds. But we also enjoy getting together with other birders—at Christmas bird counts, the annual CFO convention, and monthly bird club meetings. Thanks to Joe Roller for setting up another occasion for birders to get togeth

[cobirds] Birders thank Last Chance, Washington County

2012-11-03 Thread Tom Wilberding
Hello COBirders, We all enjoy seeing, hearing, and studying Colorado birds. But we also enjoy getting together with other birders—at Christmas bird counts, the annual CFO convention, and monthly bird club meetings. Thanks to Joe Roller for setting up another occasion for birders to get togeth

[cobirds] Some Pueblo birds 11/03

2012-11-03 Thread Brandon K. Percival
Hi all, There were a number of birders looking around Pueblo today. Here are my highlights (all of which were seen by at least one other birder, besides me) Pueblo Reservoir: Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 adults on the South Shore Marina tires (seen by many) Thayer's Gull - 1 adult well seen on

[cobirds] Pueblo Today additions

2012-11-03 Thread John D
Cobirders : To Brandon's list my group can add a Winter Wren at Pueblo City Park near the NE ravine around 8:20 am and a Loggerhead Shrike at Lake Pueblo SWA mid afternoon and a damaged Osprey ( late ) at Valco Ponds . Osprey seemed to have some gross swelling of its right cheek , althoug

[cobirds] Jumbo, Sedgwick and Phillips birding on 11/3

2012-11-03 Thread William H Kaempfer
John Vanderpoel and I headed east today to see if there was anything left in the NE corner of the state after the flurry of birds in September and October out there. There were. About the first bird we had was a Greater Yellowlegs in the South Platte at the Red Lion exit off I 76. Then we pas

[cobirds] Boulder tid-bits 11-3-12

2012-11-03 Thread Christian Nunes
Birders, Just a quick heads-up that the BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER was still at Sixmile Reservoir today. No sign of the Sabine's Gull, but there was one adult THAYER'S GULL out there with the RING-BILLEDS and a CALIFORNIA GULL. Christian NunesBoulder, CO pajaro...@hotmail.com http://www.flickr.com/ph