In 2012, Dick Schottler and I found a leucistic RTHA during the Denver CBC.
It so happens that we found this bird in my neighborhood, which is on the
western edge of the count circle. I was fortunate enough to watch this
bird, likely a female (she was bigger than any other RTHA that tried to
Feel your pain
On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 1:20:13 AM UTC-7 fiddlenurs wrote:
> I been in the right place
> But it must have been the wrong time…
> Credit: Dr John
>
> Deb Carstensen, Arapahoe county
> Sent from my iPhone
>
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March 4, 2021. A link with further details and a Zoom link follow. All
are welcome!
Good birding,
Ed
Ed Furlong,
Education Director,
Ruddy turnstone @ mouth of Plum creek, E. Side@1:10. Also some killdeer
Pelicans, cormorants, etc.
Good Birding!
Ed Furlond
Evergreen, CO
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, cogoshawk wrote:
First, my apologies for not reporting this sooner.
Last Sunday my wife and I hiked the Silver Dollar Lake Trail, (~ 9 miles
from Georgetown) when returning to our car at the paved parking area at
Guanella Pass Road (~11,000 ft elevation) , we heard some persistent raptor
This year, the number of robins persisting through the winter in the
foothills has become a topic non-birders of my acquaitnance are
commenting on. I too suspect the juniper berry crop is higher this
year due to summer moisture, and the Robins and Townsend's Solitaires
may be competing for this
All:
I heard and saw approximately 35-40 Sandhill Cranes flying WSW over
the foothills near Conifer, CO at 5:25 pm. They were at about the
intersection of North Turkey Creek Road and Jefferson County Hwy 7,
halfway between Evergreen and Conifer. Just made my day, as they flew
towards the sun
I can confirm Virginia's estimates on numbers of sandhill cranes and
the pintails. We saw almost the same list of birds (no redtail but
did see a junco), and 4 deer. We had been at Bosque del Apache the
previous Monday and saw a few hundred cranes, so most if not all, seem
to be in migration.
This is an excellent question! According to Birds of North America
Online:
...On Baffin Island, Snowy Owls hunt in all weather and at all hours
during the continuous summer light, although they are seemingly less
active about noon and midnight (Watson 1957). On Greenland, they hunt
mostly in
