[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Friday, March 8, 2013.

2013-03-08 Thread Joyce Takamine
Compiler: Joyce Takamine Date: March 8, 2013 email:rba AT cfobirds.org phone: 303-659-8750 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Friday, March 8, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are

[cobirds] Possible Eurasian teal - Arapahoe County, 3/8

2013-03-08 Thread modise
While looking at a mixed flock of ducks in a golf course water trap in the Inverness business park, I saw what I thought were two green-winged teal, when I noticed one had a strong, horizontal white bar. Immediate thought was Eurasian teal! Exit I-25 at Dry Credk and go East 1/2 mile to

[cobirds] Sandhill Cranes/Redpolls/Lee Martinez Park/Larimer

2013-03-08 Thread Rob Sparks
Yesterday while having dinner at Lee Martinez Park, Maya spotted about 90 Sandhill Cranes. Also today while riding my bike to work I stopped by the Museum of Discovery and the redpolls are still present in lower numbers. I counted about 50 individuals with one good Hoary Redpoll candidate.

[cobirds] Mountain Bluebirds JeffCo

2013-03-08 Thread Adam Jack
An awesome flock of hundreds of mountain bluebirds at the mouth of coal creek canyon. Adam Jack Coal Creek Canyon, CO Sent from my mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails

[cobirds] Cherry Creek SP, 8 gull species

2013-03-08 Thread Glenn Walbek
Original Message Subject: BirdsEye-Cherry Creek SP-2013-3-8 From: Glenn Walbek jun...@comcast.net To: Laurie Walbek jun...@comcast.net CC: Observer: Glenn Walbek 2013-03-08 07:45 Cherry Creek SP Protocol: Traveling 4 Miles 130 Minutes Observers: 1 All birds reported? Yes    

[cobirds] Golden-crowned Sparrow - Red Rocks - Jeffco

2013-03-08 Thread mike
Good Morning All, Took some friends up to Red Rocks this morning and ran into Bruce Neuman and a friend of his at the Red Rocks feeders behind the Trading Post. We all saw the Golden-crowned Sparrow and Bruce reported they had seen the pair of Prairie Falcons engaged in courtship behavior

[cobirds] March at home

2013-03-08 Thread Robert A. Spencer
Hi Cobirders.The year is marching right along! March came in like a lamb for a couple days then lambasted us with a storm that rushed on with strong winds and dumped lots of snow on the plains as it roared on to the Jersey shore. Thursday it was summer in March. Temperature here in the

[cobirds] March 2013 D.F.O. Fieldtrips -- Join Us!

2013-03-08 Thread CorvidColo
Denver Field Ornithologists March 2013 Field Trips   Saturday, March 9  Red Rocks Park Leader: Tom Bush, 303.904.4576 Time: Meet at 0800 at the Red Rocks Trading Post for a half day of foothills birding. We’ll spend some time checking out all the activity at the feeders - possible

[cobirds] Mtn. Bluebirds, Plainview, Jefferson County

2013-03-08 Thread Paula Hansley
By 11 am, Adam Jack's Mtn. Bluebird (male) flock had migrated from the entrance of Coal Creek Canyon northward to an area east of Plainview. As I sat in my car and watched, the birds gradually moved north and east while feeding from mullein and tall stalks of grass. What a sight! At this rate,

[cobirds] MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD (MALE) DILLON, SUMMIT COUNTY

2013-03-08 Thread Ed Baker
1ST OF SEASON MALE MT BB - JUST SIGHTED 10 MINUTES AGO AT A NEST SITE ON MY BB TRAIL ALONG LAKE DILLON (ON DILLON'S SIDE) TOO EARLY ROBINS ALWAYS PRECEED ARRIVAL OF MT BB'S BY A WEEK BUT NOT THIS YEAR; NO ROBINS SEEN YET. BONNIE BOEXDILLON -- You

[cobirds] Re: Mountain Bluebirds, Western Meadowlark /Jeffco

2013-03-08 Thread The Nunn Guy
Just an FYI to all--Nunn has year-round Western Meadowlarks--I call ours the Gang of 13 they usually travel together it seems. Greeley- area also has them during winter. Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn http://coloradobirder.ning.com \Mobile: http://coloradobirder.ning.com/m On Mar 7, 10:10 am, Dave

[cobirds] Horned grebe, Arapahoe/Jeff County

2013-03-08 Thread Deborah Carstensen
Claire Montour and I were at the South Platte reservoir today and saw what we believe to be a female horned grebe. According My books this seems unlikely, but she seemed to have the correct characteristics. I got a completely terrible picture of her, but you can see some of the characteristics

[cobirds] Holcim Wetlands in Fremont County, 3/8/13

2013-03-08 Thread melgoff
Hey, cobirders. For some unexplainable reason we ventured down to Holcim Wetlands in Fremont County thinking we might acutally see one of the Bohemian Waxwings reported by Brandon Percival and SeEtta Moss. It is to laugh! We ran into SeEtta when we first arrived and searched for

[cobirds] HSR: Dinosaur Ridge (08 Mar 2013) 6 Raptors

2013-03-08 Thread reports
Dinosaur Ridge Colorado, USA Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 08, 2013 --- SpeciesDay's CountMonth Total Season Total -- --- -- -- Black Vulture0

Re: [cobirds] Holcim Wetlands in Fremont County, 3/8/13

2013-03-08 Thread Robb Hinds
I wasn't able to find any Bohemian Waxwings either. I did see a Rusty Blackbird and a couple of Eastern Bluebirds while I was there. Robb Hinds Colorado Springs On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:03 PM, melg...@comcast.net wrote: Hey, cobirders. For some unexplainable reason we ventured down to