[cobirds] Need shorebirding suggestions/Mymm Ackley

2010-08-07 Thread Mymm Ackley
x27;s seen SOMETHING out there! Thanks, Mymm Ackley chuka...@hotmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobi...@googlegroups.com. To uns

[cobirds] Black Swift sighting/Mymm Ackley

2010-08-14 Thread Mymm Ackley
Hi Co-birders: On the evening of August 11 I saw at least two migrating Black Swifts out in Rye, shortly before sunset (About 7:30 P.M.) They circled over a small pond giving me excellent looks at fairly close range. Two individual birds flew over one at a time first. Then a little later I

[cobirds] Turkey vulture ritual and Sharpies/Magpies/Mymm Ackley

2010-09-19 Thread Mymm Ackley
Co-birders: First off, I too have witnessed a couple of Sharp-shinned/Magpie confrontations which I thought remarkable enough at the time to record. The one I remember best was a Sharp-shinned I came across one time sitting on the ground in a Russian Olive thicket, wings spread out submissi

[cobirds] Need e-mail address for reporting ABA-area Milestone/Mymm Ackley

2010-10-19 Thread Mymm Ackley
Hi Co-birders: I'm hoping somebody can help me. I need the ABA's e-mail address so I can report my final Milestone to them for their monthly column. I've clicked around but can't seem to go directly TO it. I'd greatly appreciate hearing from someone who knows

[cobirds] White-winged Scoter/Pueblo Res/Mymm Ackley

2009-01-21 Thread Mymm Ackley
moving and frequently diving..I don't know what else it could have been, other than a Muscovy Duck! (No such luck!) I passed on the gulls. Mymm Ackley P.S. (I'm talking about the Pueblo Reservoir for people not from here.) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You r

[cobirds] Mute Swan in Pueblo/Mymm Ackley

2009-03-05 Thread Mymm Ackley
iable population. I don't suppose this one is good for much.but somebody might be keeping tabs on 'em. Mymm Ackley _ Windows Liveā„¢ Contacts: Organize your contact list. http://windowslive.c

[cobirds] Breeding plumage Horned Grebe/Mymm Ackley

2009-04-10 Thread Mymm Ackley
inge along the sides, close to the water.) I'm sure I'll never see THAT again! Mymm Ackley --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

[cobirds] Breeding Plumage Horned Grebe/Mymm Ackley

2009-05-16 Thread Mymm Ackley
gy to describe the bird all over again. Perhaps it wasn't such a big deal. But it sure was to me-since the only other place I've seen a Horned Grebe in breeding plumage was Alaska! Only its neck still had some white on it-the rest of the bird was WOW! Mymm Ackley (If THIS message doesn

[cobirds] Agree Eastern WW Fountain Creek/Mymm Ackley

2009-12-20 Thread Mymm Ackley
Cobirds: I agree with Cecile Lee that the winter wren that's recently been hanging around the dry irrigation ditch at Fountain Creek Nature Center is the eastern subspecies. I also had excellent looks at it on December 17th and heard it call briefly. It's quite light from under the chin, d

[cobirds] Bird Brains/Mymm Ackley

2010-03-21 Thread Mymm Ackley
conditions change, the bird keeps using the same mechanism...so there's something innate that's driving it, rather than the current environmental cues it's getting as to the location of the sun, etc. I don't understand the pheonomenon very well a

[cobirds] Cassin's question/Mymm Ackley

2010-07-11 Thread Mymm Ackley
's in Arizona--get a second lease on life with the coming of the July monsoons? (Which Pueblo has had a lot of lately) Seemed odd for him to be singing so late...or even here! But perhaps the Cassin's/Botteri's July breeding thing is going on in Colorado too, now? N

[cobirds] Thanks Cassin's input/Mymm Ackley

2010-07-11 Thread Mymm Ackley
est and trying again!Since Margie's Pueblo county birds were both seen to the east of mine, that would make sense! I am wondering though, where you heard a Harris' Sparrow singing in Colorado Bill?! I've only hea