Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: November 6, 2013
email: rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-6750 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, November 6, 2013
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2 days ago I had the pleasure of seeing a life bird, a Parasitic Jaeger, with
Dwayne Nelson and Janael Thompson at Adobe Creek Reservoir (Blue Lake) in Kiowa
County. The bird put on a spectacular show of kleptoparasitism going after
several Ring-billed Gulls in flight. On one occasion I
In response to Hugh's posting:
In our small, suburban, southeast Aurora yard, house finches predominate,
but we usually have some house sparrows too. We have not seen any sparrows
for a couple of months. We do have a few black capped chickadees at the
feeders and three blue jays regularly
Just now there was an adult kittiwake on n end of Lower Latham Res, viewable
from east side. Patience of essence
This morning at Jackson State Park, imm N Parula and Gray Catbird
Steve Mlodinow
Longmont
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This morning a tan-striped White-throated Sparrow visited our backyard
gleaning seed that had fallen on the ground from the deck feeder.
Ken Pals
Nestled along Spring Creek near Taft Hill Drake
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This was a very interesting email and I have also noted the lack of some
normal birds. What we do have every day for about a week now are Stellar's
Jays at our feeders near the foothills in Fort Collins. Also today on
Reservoir Ridge I saw a flock of about 6 Stellar's and this is really
unusual.
Greetings All
Today I spent the first 6 hours of the day at Jackson (State Park/Reservoir-
Weld County), which was fun as usual. At the outlet channel, at the southern
tip of the reservoir, there were 50 Least Sands, 2 Pec Sands, and 9 LB
Dowitchers.. nice for November. Also there were 4
I quickly stopped by Fort Logan Cemetery this afternoon. It is in Denver
County, off of S. Sheridan, on the east side of S. Sheridan. One Ross's
Goose[white morph], was with a lot of Cackling Geese and other Canada Geese, at
the first pond on your right as you enter the cemetery. Not much else
To continue the thread on Steller's Jays east of the foothills, there
was one at my home in SE Ft. Collins on Nov 1st and I photographed
another today at my feeders. It could have been the same bird, no way to
be sure. I live 4-5 miles east of the foothills. This is only the second
time I've
