Dinosaur Ridge - Bird Conservancy of the Rockies
Colorado, USA
Daily Raptor Counts: Mar 10, 2020
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Black
Yeah, I don't know who could be so daft as to confuse that Great Egret
statue near 80th and Indiana with an actual bird. Oh wait, that was me!
But hey, I was just chasing someone else's report! It's not easy to get
Great Egret in Jeffco.
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Eric DeFonso
near Lyons, Boulder County, CO
On
Hi all
Three Sandhill Crane spent the night in the (west) cornfields of Wellington
State Wildlife and were seen this morning on my commute into Fort Collins.
The last few years this area seems to be a stopover place for them if
anyone is looking for them.
Directions: I25N to Wellington exit
I still have fond memories of a Christmas Bird Count when a group of us were
looking at a flock of geese on the ice of a frozen lake. We were trying to get
a good count. We were also becoming a bit suspicious of the lack of movement,
when a figure emerged from the middle of the flock and began
A couple of years ago there was a great egret being reported on a pond in north
Jeffco- maybe up on Indiana or MacIntyre? Anyway, I went by for a look, and the
egret, which was oddly immobile, proved to be a fairly convincing statue. It
was not hard to understand how it could fool an observer,
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Email: r...@cobirds.org
Compiler: Patrick O’Driscoll (patodr...@gmail.com)
303-885-6955 mobile
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