Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: August 3, 2014
email: r...@cfobirds.org
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, August 3 sponsored by
Denver Field Ornithologists and Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species).
Little Blue Her
COBirders,
Veteran CFO members will be saddend to learn of the death last week of
Dr. John Yaeger of Pueblo. He held a membership in CFO for forty years, was
a founding board member of what is now the Nature and Raptor Center of
Pueblo, and the Field Trip Chair while serving on the board of Ar
Greetings All
Today, Smith Reservoir was filled with birds and good ones at that
Highlights included an adult Caspian Tern, an adult breeding plumage Glossy
Ibis, an apparent Glossy x WF Ibis (perhaps that Glossy had bred with WF Ibis
in the San Luis Valley this year), and a male Mexican Duck.
Birders,
Today's DFO trip to Jackson Lake SP found the lake completely FULL with NO
shoreline. The only shorebirds we found there were Killdeer and Spotty's at
the Jackson Lake SWA.
At Andrick Ponds SWA we had:
3 American Bitterns (all seen well in flight)
1 ea Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs
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Noticed a posting on the Colorado Rare Bird Alert of possible sightings of
both a Little Blue Heron and a Crested Caracara in Larimer County today and
had to investigate. Found out that it was a pair of Black-crowned
Night-Herons, one adult and one immature.
David Wade
Fort Collins CO
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You
COBirders,
I was out looking for odonata today and while walking around Jackson's Pond
(south side of Eads) I flushed a LEAST BITTERN. It was a brief look as it flew
up in front of me and over the cattails and back down. As I got around to the
otherside I flushed either the same bird or possi