[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, July 14, 2013

Compiler: Mary Driscoll Date July 14, 2013 email: rba AT cobirds.org phone: 303-659-8750 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, July 14, 2013 sponsored by the Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message,

[cobirds] Chatfield Banding Highlights, Spring 2013

Hi Cobirders, We are deep into planning for fall migration banding at Barr, so I thought I'd better do a final wrap-up on spring at Chatfield! You can learn more and view some cool photos on the RMBO blog ( http://rmbo.org/v3/Home/tabid/41/EntryId/63/Two-Birds-Recovered-at-Spring-B

[cobirds] Fountain Creek Regional Park 7/14: Red-headed Woodpecker - El Paso County

Fountain Creek Regional Park was suprisingly lively for mid-morning today. Quite a few yellowthroats out, and a couple of cedar waxwings. The highlight was a beautiful Red-headed Woodpecker foraging in an elm near the Duckwood Dr. parking lot. We watched the bird on a snag for a while before

[cobirds] Calliope Hummingbird - Douglas

This morning we picked out an active Calliope Hummingbird at one of the feeders by Rhonda Lancaster's home. She sees loads of Broad-taileds; she hears the Rufous she reported last week but hasn't seen it since. We hiked up a canyon on her ranch and Urling found two Broad-tailed nests, with

[cobirds] Hummers in southern Larimer County

After a relative paucity of hummingbirds this year (only 4-6 Broad-tails apparently breeding Near here and using the feeders), today I counted 5 male Rufous and 3 male Calliope at the feeders, Along with 10-12 Broad-tailed. Have NOT had the local pinyon jays for the last week, after they

[cobirds] Long-eared Owl and sensational fireflies, Boulder County, July 13

Hello, Birders. Last night, Saturday, July 13th, Topiltzin Martinez and Andrew Floyd and I explored the surprisingly extensive cattail marshes at the west end of Boulder Reservoir, Boulder County. The fireflies were amazing, spanning an area of many acres. I was impressed by the fireflies

[cobirds] Indigo Bunting, etc., Boulder County, July 14th

Hello, Birders. I briefly popped in this morning, Sunday, July 14th, at the Mesa Marshall trailhead (near the intersection of 93 and 170), where there was a Passerina bunting with a good match to the phenotype of the Indigo Bunting. And I stopped by Sombrero Marsh, full of baby coots. This

[cobirds] 4 hummers, Colo Spgs, El Paso Co.

Hi COBirders, At dusk this evening we had adult males of all four regularly occurring hummingbirds: Rufous, Broad-tailed, Calliope, and one I usually don't see, Black-chinned. Alas, a good-sized bear trashed a couple of my feeders this morning, so I need to go bring them in now! Good

Re: [cobirds] Calliope Hummingbird - Douglas

Male calliope hummingbird here two days ago. From all the reports, it would seem that we have a pretty solid arrival time frame for calliopes. At least, for this year! Norm Norm Lewis Lakewood, CO -Original Message- From: Hugh Kingery ouze...@aol.com To: cobirds

[cobirds] GBBC-Carol Quinn

Carol Quinn https://www.facebook.com/carol.quinn.129?hc_location=stream Lunenburg Vermont https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200885912808523set=gm.10151468050791198type=1relevant_count=9ref=nf

[cobirds] Prewitt Reservoir, Washington County, Highlights 14 July

Greetings All Today, David Dowell and I spent much of the morning at Prewitt Shorebird habitat along the south end of the reservoir is sweeet, and highlights from the mud at the s. end included: LAUGHING GULL (2nd year, worn, not unlike the Big Johnson bird) SNOWY PLOVER (beautiful adult)