[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 28 December 2014

Compiler: Joyce Takamine Date: December 28, 2014 This is the Rare Bird Alert Sunday, December 28 sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species). White-winged Scoter (Arapahoe, Boulder)

[cobirds] A Dipper, and Canyon Wren in Lyons

Yesterday, my wife and I took a walk along St. Vrain Creek in Lyons. Old St. Vrain Rd. was quite lively in early afternoon. Our first finds were a single female Pine Grosbeak and White winged Junco at a residents feeders. Then, as we passed a section of close rock wall a quite active Canyon Wren

[cobirds] Common Crane in NM

When the Sandhill Cranes leave New Mexico, we should be checking for it in the San Luis Valley in March in the hopes that it moves north with them. Norm Erthal Arvada -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Colorado Birds group. To unsubscribe from this

[cobirds] Backyard CBC on Dec.25

Hi Cobirders. I no longer can do Christmas Bird Counts. However a lot of birds were coming to my feeders Christmas morning so off and on I checked for 3 hours between 7:30 and 10:30 AM . At least 11 species were seen. Only one observer ME! Wx Calm cold with 4snow on ground. House

[cobirds] Rosy Finches at Fawn Brook Inn , Allenspark , Boulder Cty

All 3 species of Rosy Finch were at the Fawn Brook Inn feeders this afternoon with over 100 Gray-crowned , 10 or so Brown-capped and just one Black Rosy Finch . Pine Grosbeak and Evening Grosbeaks were also present . John Drummond Colorado Springs. -- You received this message because you

[cobirds] 4 falcon commute, and some snowy yard birds (Jefferson)

Driving to work this afternoon (Dec 28) on C470 I passed a *Merlin* near Ken Caryl Ave, an *American Kestrel* flew over near Kipling, a *Prairie Falcon* was perched on a pole near Wadsworth, and a juv. *Peregrine Falcon* flew over near South Platte Reservoir! Maybe if I kept going I'd have added a

[cobirds] Yellow-billed Loon

After many people searched today the YELLOW-BILLED LOON was NOT seen on Chatfield Reservoir today. In the calm of the night last night the reservoir nearly completely flash froze. Through the course of the day the water opened up a lot and a good variety of species was present. One distant

[cobirds] White-wined Scoter at Prospect Lake, Colo Springs on 12-26

I didn't see a White-winged Scoter noted in the Rare Bird Report for Colorado Springs so making a late report as I while traveling nearby for an appointment I checked and saw one at Prospect Lake last Friday. I have a couple of reasonable photos for sexing/aging but haven't had time to upload