[cobirds] Vermillion at Walden - Boulder County

2018-10-01 Thread BCO gal
The Vermillion Flycatcher was there as of 6:00 Monday night. Still in the field east of the parking lot. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

[cobirds] Parasitic jaeger, Cherry Creek State Park

2018-10-01 Thread Karl Stecher Jr.
At about 1 PM, an adult parasitic jaeger was flying low over the marina. It circled multiple times for altitude, then drifted south I could not follow it in the clouds. Multiple looks for about 5 minutes observation time. Karl Stecher Aurora -- You received this message because

[cobirds] Bird Conservancy Banding Report Chico Basin Ranch - 10/1/18

2018-10-01 Thread Kim Geissler
Bird activity was relatively slow today. I caught the first two Northern Flickers of the season. One was a Yellow-shafted male and the other was a Red-shafted female. The totals were 30 birds banded of 9 species, plus 5 recaps from earlier in the season. Here's the summary of newly banded

[cobirds] Vermillion at Walden - Boulder County

2018-10-01 Thread Randy Siebert
Vermillion Flycatcher seen again on October 1 from around 9:00 to 10:15 by various birders. Same general area as on 9/30. Field east of parking lot. Was moving quite a bit but generally staying on the wire fences. Never came too close. Say’s Phoebe in same area for awhile. Two Pectoral

[cobirds] Cattle Egrets, Boulder County

2018-10-01 Thread Peter Burke
COBirders, A pair of Cattle Egret were hanging out with some cows just north of Boulder Reservoir, in a field at the NE corner of 55th and Monarch Rd. Good Birding, Peter Peter Burke 5590 Spine Rd. #204 Boulder, CO 80301 (973) 214-0140 Flickr

[cobirds] Weld County Birding Fun

2018-10-01 Thread 'The "Nunn Guy"' via Colorado Birds
Hi all It was quite a fun day of birding in/around the Pawnee NG yesterday highlights being: - Brown Thrasher, Mountain Bluebird [Lone Tree Creek and Weld CR 100] - Sandhill Crane - 150+ [Weld CR 116 and Hwy 77 Playa] - Peregrine and Prairie Falcon (same time!) hunting shorebirds,

[cobirds] Dusky Flycatchers, CSR, EL Paso Co, Mon

2018-10-01 Thread Steven Brown
Hey COBirders, I banded 2 late juv Dusky Flycatchers this morning at Clear Spring Ranch. You can tell it is fall. Cool, cloudy, leaves are changing, White-crowned Sparrows outnumber Chipping Sparrows, Orange-crowned Warblers and Ruby-crowned Kinglets outnumber Wilson’s Warblers, flocks of

[cobirds] Gunnison Island Pelicans Are On The Move – Help Out By Reporting Wing Tagged American White Pelicans

2018-10-01 Thread Mark Amershek
Attention - Something to keep an eye out for. This was taken from a blog posting I get daily from a photographer friend in Utah: Gunnison Island in the Great Salt Lake is the home to one of the largest breeding colonies of American White Pelicans in North America and right now those pelicans

[cobirds] Possible Eastern Wood-pewee (Boulder county: northeast Boulder)

2018-10-01 Thread Bryan Guarente
I had the good fortune of a wood-pewee showing up outside my office window this morning (3085 Center Green Drive, northeast Boulder). Took some poor digibinned photos (in linked checklist below). I found this bird to lean more towards Eastern than Western Wood-pewee. Because this is an immature

[cobirds] Possible Gray-cheeked Thrush at First Creek

2018-10-01 Thread john haycraft
Possible GCTH at Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR - First Creek. Bird was found in the cottonwoods running east of the fence corner near the pond at the end of the path (along dirt road). Distinctly different thrush from Hermit Thrush seen at trail start on east side of road ten minutes later. No

[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 1 October 2018

2018-10-01 Thread Joyce Takamine
Compiler: Joyce Takamine e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org Date: October 1, 2018 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Monday, October 1 sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies. Note that the RBA is using the new AOU checklist. Rare and out of range species