Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: November 24, 2014
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert Monday, November 24 sponsored by
Denver Field Ornithologists and Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species).
Tundra Swan (*Douglas, El Paso, Larime
This morning in the Longmont area, I did not see a Long-tailed Duck at
McIntosh Reservoir, but I did see one at Lagerman Reservoir. Lagerman was
ice covered a week ago but is now ice free. An excited group of
Ring-billed Gulls, Herring Gulls, Common Mergansers, and Common Goldeneyes
was feedi
Excellent weather this past Saturday for a fine morning of "raptoring".
Great bunch of birders showed up for breakfast and birds. A total of 66
birds seen. Folks were impressed on the birds I "planted" along the trip
route ... :-)
- Ferruginous Hawk - 8
- Unid Buteo - 7
- Red-tailed
Chris Wood sent me a photo of lots of longspurs down at Sheridan Lake, in Kiowa
County yesterday afternoon. I guess 6100+ (maybe like 10,000) Lapland
Longspurs, 10 Chestnut-collared Longspurs, and two McCown's Longspurs.
Brandon Percival
Pueblo West, CO
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Hit a few reservoirs before the winds kicked up
Union (WELD) was still fabulously birdy, with many gulls, mergansers and
goldeneye.
Highlights there included:
3rd year (ongoing) GLAUCOUS GULL
4 Thayer's Gulls (3 adults, 1 juv)
1 PACIFIC LOON
1 Common Loon
Ish Reservoir (Boulde
Hi CoBirders
I saw a single American Dipper in Clear Creek at Lowell Blvd. (Adams Cty)
this morning about 10:15 am. It was downstream, east of the bridge, viewed
from the bike path.
Bob Canter, Denver CO
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Margie Joy called me a little bit ago, to let me know about a Greater
White-fronted and a Ross's Goose at Cattail Crossing Pond, in Pueblo West. I
went right over there, and both birds with feeding in the grass along
McCullough Blvd., across from Vectra Bank in Pueblo West, with Canada and
Cac
Birders,
I finally got down to Roxborough and though there were no swans, now there
are 5 female type Black Scoters there. I had 4 together and the other
about 50 yards away.
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Ira Sanders
Golden, CO
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On the way to the DMV today, I saw that there was a huge flock of geese on
the fairgrounds lake, including many white geese. After closer inspection,
most of the white geese were Snow Geese, including a couple of blue morphs.
I was able to find a handful of Ross's Geese, and one Greater
White
It took quite a bit of looking, but was finally able to re-locate the
Long-tailed Duck and 2 Red-necked Grebes in amongst the mass of Common
Goldeneye on Martin Lake at Lathrop State Park.
Also found a Common Loon on Horseshoe and a couple of Eastern Bluebirds between
the two lakes.
Polly Wren
With help from Mel Goff and Beth Payne,
I saw the three scoter species continuing at Prospect Lake, Memorial Park,
Colorado Springs: Black Scoter, White-winged Scoter and Surf Scoter. Surf
and white-winged were toward the north end and the Black Scoter was more
toward the south end. Lake is n
Hello,
If your objective is to observe photographers then I highly recommend this
location on the weekends if a rare bird has been plastered across the
various social sites catering to birding and rare birds. *DO NOT WASTE YOUR
TIME* if your objective is to observe and study birds. I can only
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