Birders,
I drove about 25 miles south of Las Animas (Bent County) to check out
Setchfield SWA this morning. Mountain Bluebirds are abundant here this
winter, drawn by the bumper crop of berries of One-seeded Junipers. I
hoped to find other wintering species using this resource on the one
This afternoon a Northern Goshawk spent 35 minutes perched in our scrub oak,
its back to the bird feeders. The juncos, chickadees, finches, and siskins
continued using feeders & feeding on the ground without concern. However, we
did not see any jays or squirrels. One magpie dashed by,
Hi Gary,
You were very lucky. Hope your Raptor Alley day goes well. I stopped on
Trilby west of Taft at 11 and again at 1:15 and no sign of the Gyr.
Cheers,
Adrian Lakin
Mead, CO
On Friday, January 17, 2020 at 1:30:59 PM UTC-7, The "Nunn Guy" wrote:
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> Hi all
>
> Gyrfalcon (Fort Collins
I once had a white plastic bag in a willow tree that became a drive-by
Snowy Cotinga. This was in Santa Cruz County California no less, where
clearly I was Costa Rican dreamin' at the time.
But I digress from Colorado "birds" . Sorry
David Suddjian
Ken Caryl Valley
Littleton, CO
On Fri, Jan 17,
Hi all
Gyrfalcon (Fort Collins Landfill) on favorite tower (southside of dump,
west of Taft Ave; third pole) at 1230. I have seen gyr same pole now 3x in
the 1100-1300 window and once 0830-0930 last 30-40 days.
- Three photos (middle of homepage):
I once identified a floating beer bottle as a cinnamon teal. A real, honest to
goodness snowy owl, I said, was just a piece of styrofoam until Steve Jones
showed it to me in his scope!
Carol Cushman
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