Thursday, May 17. 8:30 PM The northeast pond is just a puddle--but it harbored half a dozen Dowitcher, 6 ducks, 3 Blue-wing Teal plus Green wing and...
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bill harris
trlgpa@...
May 18, 2012 2:45 am
Did a mid-day driveby of Fruitgrowers Res. The western shore and areas along the causeway and north ponds were abuzz with activity. Yellow headed blackbirds...
Hi all Visited Spring Park reservoir again at dusk and located a breeding condition American White Pelican. Only the second one I have seen here in several...
Thursday, June 14, 6:00 p.m. Black Canyon Audubon Society Annual Dinner and Black Swift Presentation We will be gathering once again at the Remington's...
Birders, At 11 A.M. this morning a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak joined the five Black-headed Grosbeaks at my feeder in the town of Ouray. I had a female R-b...
Dennis Garrison and I finally made it out to count territorial Ruby-crowned Kinglets around the town of Paonia this morning. Ever since the Atlas II project...
I stopped at Neversink on the way back from the CFO convention yesterday. Despite it being noon and windy, birds were abundant and active. I hoped for a least...
I should have included that the Neversink trail is at the east end of the Curecanti Rec area near Blue Mesa Res. in Gunnison County. Sorry,Nic Korte...
Greetings, In route as well as returning home from the CFO Convention in Trinidad, Kim Potter, Brenda Wright and myself worked on three atlas blocks in the...
This post is a little late - visited Hart's Basin, Sweitzer, Confluence Park and the top of the Mesa with my folks on Saturday. Highlights at Hart's were a...
First of all, a field worker for RMBO (Josh Kreitzer, an excellent birder from Utah) surveying in Echo Park in Dinosaur National Monument reports a Northern...
On Monday afternoon, traveling over the Uncompahgre Plateau on the Sanborn Park Road about 2 miles east of the Hanks Valley Road, we spotted a Lewis's...
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Jacob C. Cooper
black.hawk.birder@...
May 23, 2012 2:37 pm
Hi all, I'll be in town for a few days in early June and was wondering if anyone has checked up on the Black-chinned Sparrows in Mesa County recently? I missed...
Greetings, The Rich Levad Award is made in memory of Rich, who made outstanding contributions to ornithology throughout his career as a teacher and as a staff...
Thought some of you might be interested to know that we have a nesting pair of burrowing owls right here in Montrose! You can find them among the hordes of...
Greetings, At 1:00 PM Brenda spotted a pair of Yellow-billed Cuckoos in the yard. At 5:00 she found a White-winged Dove at the feeders. The best I could...
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VIRGINIA SIMMONS
vsimmons76@...
May 23, 2012 11:14 pm
... From: VIRGINIA SIMMONS <vsimmons76@...> To: cobirds@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, 23 May 2012 18:13:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Willet Costilla County 5/23...
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VIRGINIA SIMMONS
vsimmons76@...
May 23, 2012 11:15 pm
... From: VIRGINIA SIMMONS <vsimmons76@...> To: cobirds@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, 23 May 2012 19:08:04 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Scarlet Tanager, Alamosa County...
Jason, There were not calling. The first cuckoo flew in from the southeast and the second came a few seconds later. They landed in our neighbors tall elm...
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larry arnold
larnold47@...
May 24, 2012 7:01 pm
Speaking of dry, we’ve recorded only 0.98” precip to date for 2012 (about 25% of what we had during the last few years by this date)... and we have a male...
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Evelyn Horn
botnbird@...
May 25, 2012 3:13 am
Thursday, May 24. 9 PM The northeast pond is gone, the northwest pond is marshy. 4 White American Pelicans Pintail, Redhead, Mallard Ring-billed Gulls...
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larry arnold
larnold47@...
May 25, 2012 3:40 am
Missy and I returned to GJ late yesterday from latitudes north of Colorado, and of course we had to help ourselves to some outstanding Yampa River birding...
Following up on our record CBC when we counted 54 WESOs, we were anticipating a great spring for banding in GJ. We checked 130 nest boxes and found 16 with...
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Evelyn Horn
botnbird@...
May 25, 2012 8:03 pm
Friday, May 25. 2 PM Western Grebe ( and a couple of Clark's) Incredibly the nests are still occupied and being built! There are white-caps all over the...
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larry arnold
larnold47@...
May 26, 2012 3:25 pm
I hadn't visited my local patch for several weeks, so early this morning a quick bike spin through the area yielded 42 species, among them: Osprey 1 Western...
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Evelyn Horn
botnbird@...
May 26, 2012 7:13 pm
I just read Larry's posts, and decided to add this bit. When we left the hearing in the Courtyard Maririo (GJ), the chairman stated that "there would be no...
Today my Father and I drove Brewster Ridge looking for a Scott's Oriole and then headed up Baxter Pass road into Garfield county. Unfortunately we did not see...
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larry arnold
larnold47@...
May 28, 2012 8:04 pm
0530-0930 hrs this morning... On a quest for SPECIES, I drove up Plateau Creek, thence CO-65 to the Delta County Line and these were among my best birds (of...
The best bird of the weekend was a Least Flycatcher. The bird was 0.7 mi north on PE road after driving through Collbran, turning left and crossing the 2nd ...
