[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, February 7

2013-02-07 Thread Joe Roller
February 7, 2013, updated at 6:45 AM, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message to the RBA phone, *303 659-8750*, you can skip the recording by pressing the star key (*) on your phone at any time. Please leave your name,

[cobirds] Cranes or Geese?

2013-02-07 Thread cougar
This morning as I drove just south of Alamosa, I saw a flock of birds approaching from miles away to the south. Geese or cranes? Cranes or geese? I was stopped at a stop sign on an otherwise unbusy street so I just waited as they came closer and closer. Finally I saw them close up and to my

[cobirds] Rock Wrens

2013-02-07 Thread Nadje Najar
Hello all, I'm a graduate student studying Rock Wren song at the University of Northern Colorado. I will be recording as many Rock Wrens as possible in the states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico as part of my thesis project. I've been looking at historical presence/absence data

[cobirds] Grandview Cemetery, Fort Collins (Larimer) on 6February2013

2013-02-07 Thread DAVID A LEATHERMAN
Highlights of an afternoon visit to Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins (Larimer) today (6February 2013) include: Common Redpoll (a flock of at least 15 seen eating American Elm flower buds and presumably extracting seeds from the cones of Colorado Blue Spruce in the se corner) Pine Siskin

[cobirds] Re: Rock Wrens

2013-02-07 Thread Dave Cameron
Roughly here: 39.026056,-108.632904, I believe, is where we encountered a Rock Wren this past spring, while scrounging unsuccessfully for Black- chinned Sparrow. Dave Cameron Denver On Thursday, February 7, 2013 2:03:35 PM UTC-7, Nadje Najar wrote: Hello all, I'm a graduate student

[cobirds] Winter wren, Jeffco

2013-02-07 Thread Norm Lewis
I joined Ted Cooper today for a run up to Summit County to check out the feeders on Elk Thistle, among other things. They didn't disappoint- and the birds were strangely segregated. The single feeder at the end of the cul-de-sac was populated exclusively by redpolls- not as many as Todd

[cobirds] Fwd: Elk Thistle Birds, Summit County

2013-02-07 Thread Norm Lewis
I assume that since you have assumed such an exalted position in speaking for the residents along Elk Thistle, you would probably prefer to have your comments directed to the entire readership, so that the offending parties can take note of it. I don't recall that I have done anything

[cobirds] CFO Convention Registration Coming Soon

2013-02-07 Thread William H Kaempfer
Keep an eye on your mailbox! CFO members and others on our mailing list should soon see the brochure advertising this year's convention in Cortez, May 16-19. We then hope to open on-line convention registration sometime this weekend through the CFO website http://cfobirds.org/ The website

[cobirds] Re: Rock Wrens

2013-02-07 Thread Nadje Najar
Hi everybody, Thanks for all the responses, it's very helpful (keep them coming!). I would like to add to my post that yes, I know about eBird. Thanks to everyone for suggesting it, since I didn't mention it before. I know that not everyone posts to it, however, especially when it comes to a

Re: [cobirds] Fwd: Elk Thistle Birds, Summit County

2013-02-07 Thread Fiddlenurs
Ok, so I don't know the whole scoop about what's going on but, in reading the reprimand, I see mention of birders possibly walking up a road if they can't park on it. Yikes! It seems that this is a public road and is there a situation where it isn't ok for a birder to walk up a road? I don't