Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: November 6, 2012
email: rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, November 6, 2012,
sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory. If
This morning a juvenile Northern Goshawk was perched down the street from
my house. My neighbor flushed it and it pursued a Eurasian Collared-Dove.
I watched the chase for about one mile up the river toward Paonia and then
they dived below trees, I don't know the outcome. I saw this same goshawk
From 10:30am until 12:30pm, I scanned Lake McIntosh in NW Longmont (Boulder
County). I didn't find anything great on the lake, just high numbers of birds
I haven't seen for a while and some that are lagging behind a little.
On the lake:
79 American White Pelicans
75 Bonaparte's Gulls (I
Birders,
I don't usually post yard birds, but two birds of note visited my
feeders in Las Animas today. A red Fox Sparrow arrived in my yard
yesterday, and finally found my feeders today. It was still present as
dusk approached today. When I was home this morning, a male Red-bellied
Finally finished raking leaves today-- a chore always good to have in the
rear-view.
While bagging leaves, I found many feathers, (many EC Dove feathers) a
couple of which I hung onto, and consulted the bird feather guide that
Connie Cogler was kind enough to send me last year.
One was a
Please join Audubon Society of Greater Denver for these field trips in
November and December:
For details go to www.denveraudubon.org and click on Programs.
Saturday November 10: *Bird Walk at Ponderosa Preserve*, 8:30 am - 10am
led by Mary Ann Bonnell
Sunday November 11: *Ducks in Winter at
The Tuesday birders found two Common Redpoll at Prospect Park in Wheatridge,
Jefferson County today. ID photos available. Just past the bridge approximately
200 yards on west side by the birch/alder catkins.
Jonelle Balais
Evergreen, CO
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Sounds like northern birds are on the move. In addition to the two reports of
Redpolls on Cobirds today, I was informed about a small flock of Bohemian
Waxwings (seen by Cole Wild) in a remote section of the foothills west of
Loveland in Larimer County today. Keep your eyes (and ears) open,
