Compiler:Joyce Takamine
Date: January 2, 2013
email: rba AT cfobirds.org
phone:303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, January 2, 2013,
sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory. If you are phoning in
Hello, Birders.
As Norm Lewis has noted, yesterday, January 1st, was a great day to be birding
the South Platte drainage in the Denver area. Eight of us, participants in the
Denver Urban CBC, worked the South Platte River from 74th Street upstream for
several miles, plus the lowest stretches
Cobirders,
Early this morning I had a Snowy Owl glide across the road in front of my
car. I was driving northbound on I-225 between the Yosemite and Parker
Road exits. The owl was flying from the north side of the road to the
south side to the fields below the Cherry Creek dam.
Good
This particular hawk has been hanging around that area for at least 2 weeks
now, hunting from there down into Superior. Please, please use caution if
you go out there to view it, not only for your own sake but for the bird's
as well. The intersection of 104th and Dillon can be very heavy with
Greetings
My brother Greg and I also strolled the S. Platte River between 88th and
68th yesterday midday in 25 degree weather (sorry for the late post but was
busy today) and saw most of the birds reported by Steven Mlodinow on
December 29th. The Barrow's Goldeneyes were still present as were
Hi all
Good birds for us were:
Northern Goshawk (imm., private)
White-winged Dove - 2 (private)
Merlin (private)
Winter Wren (Lon Hagler)
Common Redpoll (Bonnell West neighborhood)
Area boundaries are: 1st street x Taft x LCR 14 x LCR 23
During Rawhide count we had 17+ Common Redpoll in our
Happy New Year!
I saw the continuing ACORN WOODPECKER (El Paso) this morning around 0930 in
the same location near Cheyenne Blvd and Willow Cir. It was very vocal and
flying around a lot, and was quite easy to find. It visited briefly a
feeder in the aforementioned yard with the Grinch
I went out to the Poudre River over my lunch hour today and encountered a
Greater White-fronted Goose in among the throngs of geese (800-1000) that
were at the first pond along Sharp Point Drive towards Prospect Road
(farmers pond). There were both Canada and Cackling Geese in the group
also.
Greetings
Went for a hike on New Year's Day up Goose Creek in the South Platte area
and observed a Flycatcher in open ponderosa forest near a frozen stream.
The white eye ring observed
puts this bird into the Empidonax group, and the environment would
indicate a Dusky Flycatcher. However, my
Hi Norm,
My guess would be midges (family Chironomidae) which can occur anywhere, any
time there is open water. It is my understanding their body fluids are spiked
with compounds that suppress their freezing point below 32 degrees F. Normal
places for open water at this time of year when it
The Loveland CBC was held on Jan 1 with more than 50 participants. We recorded
91 species, with 6 more for Count Week so far. Photos for some of these are
posted at http://www.pbase.com/quetzal/lovelandcbc. Six species comprised more
than half of all birds, with over 1000 each: Cackling Goose,
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