Colorado Field Ornithologists Speaker Series Presents:
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Saturday September 4th 7pm
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Another moderately paced morning. Our second adult male Blue Grosbeak, but
otherwise lots of HY birds. 22 new birds today:
Mourning Dove 1
Western Wood Pewee 1
Willow Flycatcher 1
House Wren 2 new, 1 banded 2020
Yellow Warbler 4
Wilson's Warbler 9
Chipping Sparrow 1
Clay-colored Sparrow 1
Blue
Eastern
On 8/25/2021 1:33 PM, Dave Hyde wrote:
Hello CObirders,
The attached photos show a bluebird (3 photos) and a
typical Western bluebird at my location near Storm Mountain in Larimer
Cty. on June 3, 2021. Can anyone advise me as to identification:
Western or Eastern blu
An update: last night (8/25), about 20 Common Nighthawks flew southeast
(more east than south) over my house (just north of Arapahoe and
University) in Centennial (Arapahoe). It didn't seem like a migratory
flight; they were lowish and sort of feeding. But who knows. A few
potential destination
Driving around Centennial today (County Line and Arapahoe roads, east of
University in Arapahoe County), I'll say that wherever there was one magpie
there were a dozen. On power lines, picking through yards alongside
flickers, in parking lots. Just lots and lots of magpies.
- Jared Del Rosso
Ce
What a fascinating observation. Per
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mallard/lifehistory , Mallards eat a
good deal of animal matter, mainly invertebrates, during the summer. In my
experience, it's rare to see them eat any critter that's bigger than a
half-inch or so. However, a couple years
In the shallow bay at the end of the Boulder West trailhead yesterday, our
Boulder Bird Club group observed something very strange. A mother
Pied-billed Grebe was actively hunting and feeding what looked like small
crayfish to her three young (they still had head stripes). They were being
fol
Hi
We just had a female Calliope Hummingbird come to our flowering pots on our
back porch. Quite aggressive. Came right up to my nose and began buzzing around
the face looking me in the eyes. Luckily, I survived.
Bob Righter
Denver, CO
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Thank you all for your identification of this bird as an Eastern bluebird. But
this is not any E. bluebird! It is Yard Bird #100 for my location. I was hoping
to make it to 100 species here before we moved to Longmont in August. We’re now
moved, I have 100 species in just under 5 years here, and
