Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: June 20, 2015
E-mail: rba AT cobirds.org
This is the Rare Bird Alert, Saturday, June 20 sponsored by Denver Field
Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species).
Barrow's Goldeneye
On our morning walk today Deb and I had the pleasure of meeting up with a Sage
Thrasher midway down the Shop Creek Trail (near the middle pond) on the far
eastern edge of Cherry Creek State Park. Just west of the intersection of
Parker Road and Temple Drive. We see these characters during
This morning at Kingfisher Bridge (bridge over the flooding Platte River), a
Red-eyed Vireo was singing incessantly near the flooded restroom. One of
the Eastern Phoebes is still fly catching from the few low trees and posts
that are not submerged.
In the trees near the wildlife overlook (where
This morning, I participated in a summer solstice bird count at Rocky Mountain
National Park. The group of counters found most of the expected species. In
addition, Jeff Connor found a singing stub-tailed wren a couple miles hike
into Wild Basin (Boulder County?). Hopefully more details will be
Our Denver Audubon bird class had a very nesty morning on Genesee today.
We started by watching one nest tree with four species feeding young
(Williamson's Sapsucker, Violet-green Swallow, Pygmy Nuthatch, and Western
Bluebird) (watching that took us 30 minutes); then another that had only 3
Sorry I should have been more clear. I was in CA, in the Sierra Nevada.
Just thought some cobirders might be interested of have input.
On Saturday, June 20, 2015 at 10:31:51 PM UTC-6, ronbco wrote:
I was shocked to observe a yellowlegs at trail camp pond on the Mt Whitney
trail, at 12,000
Greetings All
Today Nick Moore and I birded around Weld County
At about 4:30 AM we flushed an apparent family group of 5 Short eared Owls just
w of intersection of Weld Co Road 100 and 21 - that is, headed towards Nunn. We
had a singleton SE Owl about a mile closer to Nunn. We failed to see
