[cobirds] Chestnut-sided Warbler - Saguache

Spurred on by a reliable, but dated, report from a Crestone birder for Sunday 6 May of male Hooded Warbler and Am Redstart, Bayard and I made the trek south from Crestone (Liberty Road trailhead) to the Deadman's Creek riparian area where we dipped on the aforesaid but were instead rewarded for our

[cobirds] Cassin's Kingbird Denver

Bayard and I had a Cassin's Kingbird hawking insects on the south shore of Bluff Lake. The bird was silent, but overhead showed a white tail tip, absent of any white or pale tail edgings and a bright white throat contrasting against a dark grey head, nape and breast. Other misguided priorities forc

[cobirds] Saguache Dickcissels

Not wanting to be the only Colorado birders who have not seen a Dickcissel this summer, Bayard and I followed up this morning on Kathy Mihm Dunning's post and went to CR X between CR 50 and 52 and were rewarded by two fields (on the south side of CR X) full of Dickcissels. Bayard and I saw 6 differ

[cobirds] Yellow-breasted Chat - Saguache County

Bayard and I had a Yellow-breasted Chat at our cabin this afternoon in the Baca Grande at Crestone foraging in Pinyon Juniper habitat at 8100 feet - no doubt on his way north. Above the Chat in a Pinyon, making an odd pairing, was a Gray Flycatcher. Bayard and John Cobb Crestone, CO -- You rec

[cobirds] Northern Parula -- Saguache

This morning, Bayard and I had a brilliant singing male Northern Parula at 8100 ft along Willow Creek in the Baca Grande near Crestone, Saguache County. It was accompanied by a Virginia's Warbler, 5 Yellow-rumped (Audubon's) and a Warbling Vireo. John Cobb Crestone -- You received this messag

[cobirds] Crow Valley - Magnolia/Chestnut-sided Warbler

I drove to Crow Valley this morning and ran into Cole Wild (and friend Sherry) who promptly pointed me in the direction of a Magnolia Warbler they had found. Based on that showing, I decided the intelligent thing to do was to follow him around. He then flushed a Common Poorwill and came upon an

[cobirds] Am Bittern -- Walden

Thanks to Peter Burke who found them, and then Bayard who called me about the Red-necked Phalaropes. I rushed over from Louisville and was able to get good views. On our way out to the parking lot, Bayard and I had an American Bittern which flew from the boardwalk area reeds to the north side re

[cobirds] Black-billed Cuckoo - Weld

asted Chat (1) Orange-crowned Warbler (2) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (1) Western Tanager (many) Swainson's Thrush (2+) Hermit Thrush Red-naped Sapsucker Eastern Phoebe Dusky Flycatcher empid sp. Western Wood Pewee Prairie Falcon John W. Cobb Louisville

[cobirds] Prothonotary Warbler Larimer County

company of Wilson's, Orange-crowned and Yellow-rumped Warblers. A great bird in a unique location in spectacular weather! Thanks to its discoverer/reporters. John W. Cobb Louisville, CO -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" gr

[cobirds] Gregory Canyon

I stopped by the snowbound Gregory Canyon in Boulder today around 4:00 PM for 20 minutes and birded along the road where I saw: 2 McGillivrays Warblers 3 Virginia's Warblers 1 Wilson's Warbler 1 Yellow-breasted Chat 1 Least Flycatcher 1 Black-headed Grosbeak 1 Green-tailed Towhee and multiple Spot

[cobirds] Long-tailed Ducks and Barrows remain at 88th/Platte

(the latter may, or may not, have been the same individuals seen ten minutes earlier on the river). John W. Cobb Boulder

[cobirds] Erie Res Glaucous Gull

Dear Co-birders: Most of the returns (7) are in and, after reviewing the feedback and doing some further research of my own, I am convinced that the bird is an adult Glaucous Gull, most probably a female and perhaps of the race borrovianus (although there are some arguments against the latter) t

[cobirds] help with white-winged gull

I encountered late in the afternoon today an adult plumaged white-winged gull at the edge of the open water at Lake Erie which had completely white primaries, pale grey mantle, light eye, rounded head, yellow bill with small red spot at the gonys, pale eye (clear not dusky) and very pink legs. T

[cobirds] yellow-throated warbler

After about an hour spent chasing chickadees, I found the Yellow-throated Warbler at 9:20 AM north of Pine Point in the pines along Lake Estes. It then moved over to Pine Point where it foraged for about 15 minutes in the company of chickadees, 3 or more Ruby-crowned Kinglets, a hermit thrus

[cobirds] Crow Valley additions

In addition to the birds accurately detailed by Kathy Dunning in her report, Bayard and I saw an Ash-throated Flycatcher later in the morning in the NE corner in and around the farm machinery and fence line. It resisted all our efforts to turn it into a Brown-crested. The impact of the windy co

[cobirds] Glossy Ibis

I can corroborate Jack Harlan's report of a Glossy Ibis that I saw in good light (with 14 white-faced) on Thursday afternoon in the same temporary swampy location north of Prince Lake #2 -- my apologies for not reporting it earlier. John Cobb Boulder Foothills --~--~-~--~~---