[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, August 24

2019-08-24 Thread Gregg Goodrich
Date: Saturday, August 24, 2019 E-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org Compiler: Gregg Goodrich, Highlands Ranch email: gregggoodrich AT gmail.com phone: 303 655-9135 Birders have been helpful by reporting updates to COBirds. Thanks! CAPITAL LETTERS denote very rare species, as listed by the Colorado Bi

[cobirds] Baird’s Sparrows - Logan Co

2019-08-24 Thread John Vanderpoel
Bill Kaempfer and I are looking at three Baird’s Sparrows on CR 93 about three miles south of I-76. Details will follow in eBird. John Vanderpoel Sent from my iPhone -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this

[cobirds] Piping & Semipalmated Plover, Douglas County

2019-08-24 Thread Joey
Both feeding together on the Plum Creek delta. Joey Kellner Littleton, Colorado -- 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+unsubscr...@googlegrou

[cobirds] Possible Old Pileated Woodpecker Tree in CO?

2019-08-24 Thread joe...@betterbirdwatching.com
While hiking yesterday near Leadville I found a very large stump with very large drill holes I posted a report with photos on my website at: betterbirdwatching.com/pileated-woodpecker-tree-in.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" grou

[cobirds] Pileated link

2019-08-24 Thread joe...@betterbirdwatching.com
The link to webpage does not appear to work so from homepage betterbirdwatching.com just click on text at top "pileated woodpecker tree in CO?" Joe LaFleur Woodland Park -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from th

Re: [cobirds] Pileated link

2019-08-24 Thread Dick Filby
Hi Joe Many thks for your post Interesting, for sure, but for me the holes do not strongly remind me of Pileated holes which are typically much more rectangular in shape, the long side being vertical. Just my opinion. Best wishes DickFilby Carbondale, CO Norwich UK (currently) Sent from

Re: [cobirds] Pileated link

2019-08-24 Thread Karl Stecher Jr.
Agree. And wood often splits vertical from pil's holes. Have seen many growing up in Maryland (near DC) and camping and scout counselor in Appalachians in Virginia. Even had them in my back yard growing up there. Once at camp I was chopping wood and a pil came down to see what was going on.

Re: [cobirds] Possible Old Pileated Woodpecker Tree in CO?

2019-08-24 Thread DAVID A LEATHERMAN
Both Hairy and American Three-toed Woodpeckers often excavate circular patches of bark the size of a 50-cent piece or even bigger at the base of dead conifers in the act of extracting larvae of large wood-boring beetles and also nests of carpenter ants. I would say this much more likely than an

Re: [cobirds] Pileated link

2019-08-24 Thread joe...@betterbirdwatching.com
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Re: [cobirds] Possible Old Pileated Woodpecker Tree in CO?

2019-08-24 Thread joe...@betterbirdwatching.com
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[cobirds] Bird Conservancy Banding Report - Opening Day at Barr Station, 8/24/19

2019-08-24 Thread Meredith McBurney
We had a very nice, if somewhat warm, opening morning at Barr. We started opening nets at 6:40, and within 10 minutes had our first birds (a Western Wood-pewee and a Northern Waterthrush, side by side in the net) and our first visitors (a mom with her two young daughters from Thornton). LOTS o

Re: [cobirds] Possible Old Pileated Woodpecker Tree in CO?

2019-08-24 Thread Mail.indra.com
Agreed with the other borders; Joe, PIWO holes are often very rectangular and it seems doubtful that they make it here. I am in California right now and seeing them, and grew up with them in New England, and it would be great to have them in CO but, alas, they are pretty far and don’t seem to mi

[cobirds] News about the Pueblo rehabbed Chimney Swifts

2019-08-24 Thread Leon Bright
COBirders- Several days ago I posted a request from Nancy Kelley, a wildlife rehabber in Pueblo, who needed help with finding a colony of Chimney Swifts so she could release some fledglings. Mark Yaeger (artist/illustrator of the Colorado Breeding Bird Atlas II) suggested she continue to watch

[cobirds] Re: Piping & Semipalmated Plover, Douglas County

2019-08-24 Thread Gregg Goodrich
Both birds are still on the eastern end of the plum creek delta this evening. I was there close to an hour and they primarily stayed in the area where the American White Pelicans were staying. They flew together several times but stayed in the general eastern side of the delta. It is very muddy