Barb and headed east to the prairie today, to find and photograph Lapland
Longspurs, as Mark and Glenn did, per Glenn’s January 6 post to CFO
Facebook. But instead of their 675,000, we managed to see ONE. But glad we
didn’t dip.
This eBird Occurrence Map seems to indicate that the best time
There's no doubt in my mind that this is an American wigeon hybrid...The
gray/pale blue bill and green mask that a drake baldpate exhibits are palpable;
what it's crossed with is more conjecture for me but I believe that it is
crossed with a mallard. Perhaps the juxtaposed true mallard present i
Hey, everybody.
This evening, Sat., Jan. 14, in fading light at Stearns Lake, southeastern
Boulder County, Andrew Floyd and I saw a hybrid duck that I'm not certain
about. In terms of gross plumage characters, it reminds me of a "Brewer's,"
or "Bemaculated," Duck, i.e., a Mallard x Gadwall hybr
This afternoon I decided to hike up Hidden Valley in RMNP.
I found 5 Three-toed Woodpeckers. They were tapping and pecking off the
bark of the the spruce and fir trees. Also, of note there were several
Golden-crowned Kinglets and Red-breasted Nuthatches.
I later walked around my neighborhoo
Walked the South Platte from 88th Avenue south this morning. Along with the
usual mix of ducks, there was one Hooded Merganser along with many Common
Mergansers. Four male Red-breasted Merganser on the Thornton Gravel Ponds made
a merganser trifecta. A dark morph Ferruginous Hawk and rufous morp
The trumpeter swan is still present and easily seen in the Chatfield pond
off Titan Rd and the Highline canal. Sunday, 11AM
Greg Pasquariello
Highlands Ranch, CO
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Date: January 14, 2017
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, January 14, sponsored by Denver
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