Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: November 14, 2013
email: rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-6750 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, November 14, 2013
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Dear friends--
A few years ago, we had a debate evaluation thread about the various
smartphone birding apps, and I copied all that information into a file which
I now cannot find. If anyone else has a more organized computer (or personal
brain), would you send me what info you have,
Yesterday (Wednesday) at around sunset time along North College Ave. in
Fort Collins from the parking lot of Jax looking north in the big pine tree
in the parking lot of the motel across the street from Conifer I found 2
male PINYON JAYS sitting on top. Did not expect that.
Austin Hess
Fort
No signs of the White-winged scoter at Lagerman mid-morning, however, there is
a gorgeous Blue morph Snow goose just south on 75th at Dodd Reservoir hiding in
amongst the cackling and canada geese.
Regards,
Mark Minner-Lee
Superior, CO
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This gorgeous bird is still showing in Boulder county as of late this morning.
Lisa Edwards
Palmer Lake, CO
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This afternoon at Timnath reservoir, there was a very cooperative male Barrow's
Goldeneye on the south end of the reservoir at 2 p.m. (good photos).
I was also able to re-find the White-winged Scoter at Lagerman Reservoir
(Boulder County) earlier this morning, however it (and every bird on the
COBirders,
The solid consensus is Northern Shrike. I have copied below a reply from
Susan Craig (forwarded by her friend Nancy Gobris). Susan has done a lot of
research on shrikes in Colorado and elsewhere. In her reply she attached a
photo which, to my eye, shows a pretty normal appearing
Hello, birders.
This frosty Thursday morning, Nov. 14th, I heard and sorta saw a frolicking
flock of Bushtits at Greenlee Preserve, Boulder County. There would appear to
be no pattern whatsoever to this species' presence at Greenlee. My Bushtit
records for Greenlee, per eBird:
Jan. 19, 2009Jul.
After looking at my photos, and other people's photos, I believe the warbler
seen at Pueblo City Park on Sunday, 10 November, was a BLACKPOLL WARBLER. The
photos show, a short tail, not long like Pine, and light colored legs, among
other things. The bird was very high up in the trees, and
