[cobirds] Kiowa County Lesser Nighthawk, weirdness at Flagler SWA, Kit Carson

2013-06-23 Thread Steven Mlodinow
Greetings All This afternoon, on the eastside of Blue Lake (Adobe Creek Reservoir), David Dowell and I had a male LESSER NIGHTHAWK. We were taking Kiowa County Road A into the SWA, just as the road starts to curve right, there is a dirt track next to a ditch going off to the right. This road

[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, June 23, 2013

2013-06-23 Thread Joyce Takamine
Compiler: Joyce Takamine Date: June 23, 2013 email: rba AT cobirds.org phone: 303-659-8750 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, June 23, 2013 sponsored by the Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message, you can

[cobirds] Mt. Evans Summit Lake, Clear Creek County

2013-06-23 Thread JoAnn Hackos
On our Bear Creek Atlas trip yesterday to Summit Lake: American Pipits Skylarking, courtship behavior, carrying food No Rosy-finches yet based on the last two weeks Mountain Bluebirds — male/female pair on the tundra Common Ravens having fun circling the 14,200 foot peak Mt. Goliath area

[cobirds] Park County, June 22

2013-06-23 Thread Ted Floyd
Hello, Birders. First things first. There was no Pomarine Jaeger, as far as I could tell, for Hannah and Andrew and me at Antero Reservoir, Park County, yesterday, Saturday, June 22nd. We could have missed the jaeger, of course, but we spent a fair bit of time along the stretch of shore

[cobirds] New Yard Bird/Nunn

2013-06-23 Thread The Nunn Guy
Lesser Goldfinch pair (Black-backed) #116 Yard description and complete bird list here: http://coloradobirder.ning.com/notes/My_Yard_Birds Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn http://coloradobirder.ning.com/ Mobile: http://coloradobirder.ning.com/m -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[cobirds] eBird and Willet and Fox Sparrow (among others)

2013-06-23 Thread coloradodipper
Hi all: Being responsible for the filters used by eBird to determine for entries which species are regular for time and place and which are not, I decided last year to change how certain aspects of those filters are presented in relation to a few species, particularly Willet and Fox Sparrow.

Re: [cobirds] eBird and Willet and Fox Sparrow (among others)

2013-06-23 Thread Charles Hundertmark
For birders using the Birdlog smartphone app to enter observations, a somewhat different process is required. In Birdlog, selecting All at the top of the page will produce a list with the subspecies options. The procedure may be different for those using a different app. Chuck Hundertmark

[cobirds] Pawnee Grasslands - WELD County

2013-06-23 Thread John Shenot
I participated in the Fort Collins Audubon Society field trip today at Pawnee National Grasslands, led by Bill Miller. Highlights included: - a slightly too close for comfort encounter with a prairie (?) rattlesnake - Ferruginous hawks (2 - on nest) - Burrowing owls (3 - we didn't

[cobirds] Re: Peach-faced Lovebird

2013-06-23 Thread Dave Cameron
Someone told me once that an easy to catch is, since they're used to cages and comfortable there, is to put a bird cage with the door open out in your yard. If you're lucky, it might climb in. Dave Cameron Denver -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[cobirds] Bobolink, Dickcissel, Black Phoebe and probable hybrid Black X Eastern Phoebe on field trip around Canon City area today

2013-06-23 Thread SeEtta Moss
With my field trip to look for the Bobolink and Dickcissel I found last week in Canon City this morning, I was not happy to find the hay field in which they were starting to be mowed last night. When we got there this morning the hay mower was chopping down the hay. I couldn't hear the