Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail:RBA AT cobirds.org
Date: August 21, 2016
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, August 21, sponsored by Denver Field
Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species)
NOTE: The R
Hi COBirders,
The sparrow/finch onslaught continues at Clear Spring Ranch, where this week
I’ve banded 175 Chipping Sparrows, 20 Back-headed Grosbeaks, 3 Blue Grosbeaks,
25 Lazuli Buntings, 2 Indigo Buntings, 4 Clay-colored Sparrows, and 5 Savannah
Sparrows.
Warblers today included another Nor
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All,
I've been doing crossbill fieldwork for a little over a week on the Grand
Mesa and thought I'd share a few notes.
While many birds are well into migration or wandering around the forest in
post-breeding, mixed foraging flocks, Red Crossbills are taking advantage
of a huge spruce cone crop
Hi All,
Just a little update about the birds here in estes. At Lake Estes I
found 2 Black-throated Gray Warblers this morning. One adult male and
one juvenile male. Also at my banding site at the YMCA we had a
Northern Waterthrush and 2 MacGillvary's Warblers on Friday.
Scott Rashid
Estes
Earlier this evening while I walked in Florence River Park on east side of
Florence I spotted a large number of birds flying in a sort of line of
birds. I thought they must be gulls but turned out they were Common
Nighthawks (presumptive, the ones I could see clearly were Common
Nighthawks and tha