Today I found the first of the fall Williamson's Sapsucker, a male, in
Canon City. It was feeding in one of the pines at a private residence
where I have seen many sapsuckers over the years. Today I also found a
latish Warbling Vireo along the Arkansas River and a Black Phoebe nearby.
A few days
Six of us spent the day out birding today with small number of landbird
migrants (VERY small) and almost no shorebirds.
We DID however end up at Bonny "Reservoir" SWA and visited "Pipit Hill" (an
eBird hotspot). We found at least three Sprague's Pipits in a very short
period of time.
Below is a
While walking North Rim Trail south of Niwot Road bordering Boulder Valley
Ranch and Boulder Reservoir.
At 6:15 this evening. Heard their primeval call first.
They were flying fairly low southwardly, then to the east, then to the west,
then to the north.
I got in my car and drove around for
Ketring Lake in Littleton had few waterbirds today, but an adult *Red-naped
Sapsucker* in the trees north of the lake seems like a good bird for
Arapahoe County. The grounds of the neighboring Carmelite Monastery had one
Type 2 *Red Crossbill*, and 2 *Pine Siskins*. Six *Pine Siskins* flew over
St.
No changes at Barr today - we got into double digits only because we had
the feeder nets open most of the morning (catching House Sparrows and
White-crowneds):
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1
Hermit Thrush 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Wilson's Warbler 1
Gambel's White-crowned Sparrow 5
Dark-eyed Junco (Or
I had 50 sandhill cranes flying due south at 3:15 pm in El Paso County (south
end of Colorado Springs).
Gloria Nikolai
El Paso County
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12 just flew over headed south. Along with murmurations of red winged and yelow
headwd blackbirds there are 16 greater yellowlegs here. They called s few
times; before they called I was going to record them as greater/lessers. There
is also a great blue heron with a broken wing walking around hu
The last 15 minutes, I have watched 1 Golden Eagle, 5 Red-tail hawks and 2
unidentified Buteos moving south. There were also 9 Turkey Vultures. The
winds aloft must be perfect.
Best, Pam
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At HH road, one had at least 750 ducks - all dabblers but most too far a way
for ID though we tallied 6 dabbling species plus coot.
[We did
not see 3-4 at each playa.]
At JJ, some shorebirds and also some at the next playa: 7 species, the majority
Long-billed /Dowitchers (32) (as far as we cou
This is the right week, and the right cooling weather pattern, to have
flocks of increasing size high overhead.
Karl Stecher
Centennial
Pam Piombino writes:
moving south between St. Vrain Road and Nelson, as of 1:55.
Goodness, I love their calls in the fall!
Cheers,
Pam Piombino
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On Thursday (Oct. 2), inspired by Bill Kaempfer's enthusiastic post, Urling &
I headed north (for us) and east to Last Chance, the Anton playas, & the Bonny
Dam cottonwood nursery.
Last Chance (7:30 am & 4 p.m.) had as few species as we've ever seen there - 5
species noisy Collared-Doves, 20G
moving south between St. Vrain Road and Nelson, as of 1:55.
Goodness, I love their calls in the fall!
Cheers,
Pam Piombino
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We still have two owls hanging out along Weld CR 33 between Weld CR 100 and
98 in Nunn.
Crom Lake-Mallard, Geese
Woods Angel Lakes-Cormorant (1,000+!); "normal" gulls (100+); Pelis; ducks;
grebes
Windsor Reservoir--south shore gone; reservoir full (h20)
Windsor Lake, Hwy 392 Gravel Pits--not muc
With egg on my face, I'm going to retract my Laughing Gull sighting. I now
think it's a 1yr Franklins with a weak hood and dark underwings. I'm
reminded of s saying one of my high school coaches used to say; If your not
making mistakes, your not trying hard enough.
On Thursday, October 2, 2014
Fun to observe such a gathering of Wilson's Snipe,[32], at the first
pond. Also present were 2 Least Sandpiper, 2 Greater Yellowlegs, a Snowy
Egret, 120 American Widgeon, and a single Ring necked Duck. Further along I
had a dozen White crowned Sparrow and 2 Ruby crowned Kinglets. Good October
Bir
Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: October 2, 2014
email: r...@cfobirds.org
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert Friday, October 3 sponsored by Denver
Field Ornithologists and Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species).
Broad-winged Hawk
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