Hi All,
Kathy Mihm-Dunning, Steve Larson, Dick Schottler and I birded a number of
locations in NE Colorado Sunday. Numbers of birds were fairly low in most
places (except Jumbo Reservoir where there are 10's of thousands of ducks
(almost exclusively dabblers) and geese (Canada, Cackling, Ross's
Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: November 26, 2012
email: rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Monday, November 26, 2012,
sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Clarification- my specific target list is as follows:
Rough-legged Hawk
Most of the owls (except Great Horned and Barn)
Northern Shrike
American Tree Sparrow
Snow Bunting (possible?)
Rosy-finches
Evening Grosbeak
Common Redpoll
And any rarity that might show up :)
Thanks and good birding!
Caleb
Here is the response to inquiries Tom Wilberding and I made to the Bear
Creek Lake Park Supervisor:
Tom and Joe,
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Thank for your interest in this wonderful birding opportunity and for
expressing your concerns. Unfortunately some confusion among staff caused
the no feeding of wildlife
I had a brown creeper in my little townhouse yard in west Centennial
yesterday, near Holly St Arapahoe Rd. It was working one of those
long-needled ornamental pine trees they plant in these communities.
Keep Smilin',
Kevin Corwin
west Centennial
Arapahoe County
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Both birds in the SWA looking west. NW side of Pueblo Reservoir. Adult male
Black Scoter.
Brandon K. Percival -- Pueblo West, CO -- sent from my phone.
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I am unsure when the kittiwake went. I cant find it again. It was flying
toward Turkey creek. I went to turkey creek where I got nice photos of black
scoter! I wasnt able to find the kittiwake. Maybe if it left it is heading
west toward Fremont County. Hopefully it is still at pueblo
While a finch irruption is taking place in the East, it seems like we are
witnessing a finch exodus, at least here in the Larimer County foothills. At
this time of year, our most numerous feeder birds are usually Cassin's Finches
and Pine Siskins (at 8000 feet in mixed Ponderosa/Douglas
In the SWA near the boat ramp there is a Red necked Grebe and Pacific Loon. I
guess I should go to main part of the lake now, since the west end is quite
good. I also saw a Long tailed Duck earlier that I guess flew somewhere since
I havent seen it again.
Brandon K. Percival -- Pueblo
Nice work guys. Now if Mike can just refind the bird
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:53:33 -0700
Subject: [cobirds] Explanation from Lakewood Regional Parks Supervisor about
how to use bird seed at the Park
From: jroll...@gmail.com
To: cobirds@googlegroups.com
CC: twilberd...@comcast.net
Cobirders,
I have really enjoyed this fall's migration.vicariously..by reading
Cobirds:) (I have spent the past 7 weeks mostly at home recovering from
surgery and a prior unrelated injury.) It is truly fun, though, reading and
imagining the great experiences being had in the field. One
I must say that I had a similar thought, as up here in Evergreen West, Clear
Creek Cty., my Evening Grosbeaks are way down. Probably six are still coming
to the feeders. In the past three years I have seen up to 200 in the trees at
one time. When I read the east had a resurgence, I wondered
We had 4 Spotted Towhees at the feeder this morning along with 25-30
Evening Grosbeaks, a White-throated Sparrow, Song Sparrow, White-crowned
Sparrows and our Harris's Sparrows. While we quite often will have a
single Harris's Sparrow come in occasionally, with 3 consistently in the
yard and
Margie Joy and I had close looks at the adult male Black Scoter (mostly with
Common Goldeneyes) from the Turkey Creek area, in the extreme north west part
of Pueblo Reservoir this afternoon. My photos from earlier today are on my
flickr site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brandonsbirdphotos/
Hi Folks,
The Golden-crowned Sparrow showed up around 8 this morning shortly
after Chuck Aid, Michael Kiessig and myself threw some seed out. We
then went to Bear Creek Lake Park (BCLP), where we searched in vain
for the Brambling, Common Redpoll, and Harris's Sparrow. We did see a
Hi Folks,
Late this morning Chuck Aid, Celia Greenman, Michael Kiessig and
myself observed a Lesser Black-backed Gull on the west end of Kendrick
Lake (W. Jewell Ave. S. Kipling Street). The Lesser Black-backed
was with a large flock of gulls - mostly Ring-billed but with several
Hi Folks,
Michael Kiessig and I were able to locate the previously reported
White-winged Scoter at Marston Reservoir this afternoon. We also
found 4 Common Loons in the same general area of the reservoir as the
White-winged Scoter.
We stood outside of the fence on the east side of the
For those who might be interested : the Dunlin is still present at the big
drainage ditch south of Stapleton Rd in the Falcon/Peyton area , El Paso
County. Still with the Kildeers.
Cecile Lee
Elbert, CO
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Hey all!
Nothing crazy spectacular to report here. I live very close to
Rolland Moore park between Drake and Prospect off of Shields in town.
The goose influx has been pretty astounding. I don't remember seeing
this many in the area in the past few years. There are upwards of
3000 geese
Susan Pellegrini and I birded several spots in eastern Boulder today.
Highlights included seeing the continuing flock of 40+ (guesstimate) Common
Redpolls at the SW corner of Baseline Reservoir around 10 a.m., along with 8
swans (all that showed enough of themselves for me to identify appeared
A rusty blackbird visited my backyard feeders mid-day today, 11/26/12.
Location is near Orchard and Colorado Blvd, Centennial.
Of note to me: three spotted towhees were present at various times...2
males, 1 female.
Karl Stecher
Centennial
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