Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: October 5, 2013
email: rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Friday, October 4, 2013 sponsored
by the Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.
If you are phoning in a message, you can skip the
Banding numbers continued in the teens for Wed and Thurs:
Wed, 10/2, 14 banded:
Blue Jay1 (FOS)
Orange-crowned Warbler1
Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 2
MacGillivray's Warbler 1
Chipping Sparrow1
Song Sparrow1
White-crowned Sparrow,
On Wednesday, Oct. 2 at 4:50 pm, Terry Cookro and I saw a Common Nighthawk
as it flew across highway 50 in front of the car. We were about 10 miles
east of Gunnison.
This seems like a late sighting, perhaps due to the warm weather and lack
of a major cold front in September.
Paula Hansley
Dear CO-Birders,
I'm posting this for Ted Floyd, who tells me that he is, walking from one
broken car to another.
He saw a Blue-headed Vireo at the southwest corner of Greenlee Preserve,
Boulder County, from about 11 - 11:30 today, Friday, October 4.
Typical fresh-fall Blue-headed Vireo on a
Interesting mix of corvids today - Oct. 4th
11-12 Pinyon Jays
2-3 Clark's Nutcrackers
As well as
5-6 Steller's Jay
1 BB Magpie
28-30 American Crow
Also
3 Audubon's Warblers
10 House Finch
2 Spotted Towhee
1 hummingbird (probably Broad-Tailed, although I only had a poor look).
1
At 0900 today, while it was still snowing and the majority of my grass was
covered in white, a small hummingbird looked at two of my hum feeders, and
left. They were both iced over and snowed over. I removed the ice and
warmed them with water, and thought that the hummer had headed south.
We have an imm hummer at our feeder and have made some new sugar water so we
can alternate the feeders and try to have a warm one out for it. May have to
do it thru the night. I really don't know what it is. Tammy is trying to
get a picture thru the snow with the point and shoot as the Nikon is
Several people birded Chatfield from morning through mid-afternoon. More
interesting results are:
Red Phalarope - 2!
One in juv plumage seen from both the Lake View area and the Swim Beach
One molting from juv to basic seen out from the east marina sandspit
towards the dam)
Franklin's
Hi, all.
Still dealing with broken cars. (Thanks, Jeff Gordon, for posting earlier on my
behalf.)
Meanwhile, I just now on this raw Friday afternoon, October 4th, jaunted over
to the Blue-headed Vireo spot at the southwest corner of Greenlee Preserve,
Boulder County. The vireo was gone[*],
[*]I've gotta stop thinking and saying that. It wasn't necessarily gone.
Rather, I couldn't find it. Or maybe it was dead. Anyhow, it's funny how
often we say The bird has left, when two quite plausible alternatives are
I couldn't find it or It died.
Ha! I just saw at CFOBirds.org
One way to stop your feeder from freezing is to tape a pocket/hand warmer to
the bottom of the base. Adhesive neck or back warmers work too. :) Feeding
hummingbirds during the day is the best chance they have of making it through a
cold night.
Alison Kondler
Littleton, CO
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This afternoon there was a juvenile Little Gull on the lake at West
Fisherman's Point. I watched it for about an hour. It mostly stayed west of
the
point out near the island. It occasionally flew but not far. At one
point it was next to two juv. Sabine Gulls; it was noticeably smaller.
Around 2:30pm today I drove down Bow Mar Dr.[from north to south, near my
house]. It was lightly snowing. I counted at last 24 Mountain Bluebirds. They
were sitting on the Denver Water Department fence and they were feeding on the
ground beneath, Pinyon Pine trees, next to the fence. They were
I looked in the linden tree where the WOOD THRUSH I found there yesterday
and around Lakeside Cemetery in Canon City this morning for with negative
results. There were more birds there today than yesterday: mixed flock of
40-50 Yellow-rumped Warblers and Chipping Sparrows feeding together mostly
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