Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: September 1, 2013
email: rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, September
1, 2013, sponsored
by the Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.
If you are phoning in a message, you can skip
This weather upheaval brought in birds - caught 76 new birds today. It felt
like the old days - from years back when the birds appeared early in the
morning and Wilson's Warblers were 40-60% of the total:
Western Wood-pewee 3
Western Flycatcher 2
Warbling Vireo 1
Black-capped
Our second-ever MacGillivray's in the backyard was present yesterday
afternoon and this morning, during a very busy afternoon back there.
Also of note was what will be a new yard bird if it'll ever sit still long
enough for positive ID, but a very probable Wilson's Warbler.
Other regulars,
Getting out of the heat this past week, I have spent a delightful time
above treeline. Two days ago on the way to Mount Ida from Poudre Pass, I
saw 2 roughed-legged hawks hovering and then diving into the krumholtz.
They did this several times. On this same trip, I watched a prairie
falcon buzz
Hey Cobirders --
David Dowell and I looped through Washington, Logan, Phillips and Sedgwick
counties today. Migrants were in many places and I saw so many lifers (12)
it's almost embarrassing, considering I've been living in CO a year now.
We started off the morning with those notorious
