Sunday 28 February 2021

[cobirds] Re: are they hosting the crane festival this year in Monte Vista

No it was cancelled due to covid.


On Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 8:35:57 AM UTC-7 ednbonniebaker wrote:
if so, i'm there!!

bonnie boex
denver

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[cobirds] Changes at Lake Pueblo State Park

Starting April 1st, the State Wildlife Area on the North West side of Pueblo Reservoir, becomes part of Lake Pueblo State Park and not a SWA.  I don't yet know about the South Side State Wildlife Area or Swallows.  There is the new sign for the NW side road.  So, you'll need a State Parks Pass to visit the former SWA, starting April 1, 2021.  This past year, we needed the Fishing Licence or Hunting Licence to go to this State Wildlife Area.  I believe you still need the Fishing or Hunting Licence, for the many other State Wildlife Areas around the State.  Tomorrow, you can start buying your 2021 Fishing Licence, which is good through March 31, 2022.  Many State Wildlife Areas are good birding locations.

Bird news from Pueblo, the Great Black-backed Gull was still on the South Shore Marina tires yesterday at Pueblo Reservoir.  Two Lesser Black-backed Gulls were at the Pueblo West Gravel Pit yesterday, also Eastern Bluebird in Osprey Picnic Area (all reports of Western Bluebirds from the winter, from here, are really Easterns).  Westerns could be coming back through Pueblo in March or April.  A lone Sandhill Crane was flying around Valco Ponds yesterday as well.

Brandon Percival
Pueblo West, CO

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[cobirds] Last Chance - Gull ID Workshop tonight!

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[cobirds] Re: 10,000 Cranes

They are around until April 1st more or less. First two weeks of March maximum numbers and then a serious migration exodus in the last two weeks of March. 

J Rawinski
Monte Vista, CO

On Saturday, February 27, 2021 at 10:08:53 AM UTC-7 susan...@gmail.com wrote:

In your experience, how long do you expect they'll hang around?   We are planning a trip down and it would be great to know our time window.  We don't need 10000, 1000 would be plenty!   
On Friday, February 26, 2021 at 8:55:28 AM UTC-7 mvjo...@gmail.com wrote:
Numbers have increased at the Monte Vista Refuge and there are 8,000 to 10,000 cranes there now. Go to the usual drive turnouts and you will not be disappointed. Plus a few more thousand scattered across the San Luis Valley. They are not quite peak so more birds are expected. There are also good numbers of Cackling  and Canada Geese,  Mallards, Pintails, Gadwall, GW and Cinnamon Teal, Redhead and Ring-necked Ducks. Harriers float on the breezes. Bald Eagles send the flocks aloft when they happen by. At Blanca Wetlands (which is currently closed) biologists out there conducting water management saw a male Red-breasted merganser, rare for this Valley, this past week. Should be watched for.

John Rawinski
Monte Vista, CO 

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Saturday 27 February 2021

[cobirds] mountain bluebird - Larimer County

much to my dismay, as I haven't cleaned out my 58 birdhouses yet, my neighbor 2 miles west at about 7,000 ft., had a male mountain bluebird on Friday, Feb 26.

Raymond Davis... at 6,000 ft. NW of Lyons

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[cobirds] Subject: Early Sandhill

Was a little bit surprised to see this lone early Sandhill at Barr Lake today.  Flying strongly, he decided to pass on the 24 hr buffet at Monte Vista.

 

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[cobirds] Camera Lens Hood

This morning, I found a camera lens hood at Cherry Creek State Park near the bird observation area at Prairie Loop.

Please contact me if it belongs to you.

Sent from my iPhone

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Re: [cobirds] sign of spring

Annette,
While many overwinter in CO, I suspect what you witnessed was a group of early migrants concentrated in weedy strip along melted pavement where they were finding caterpillars of the Army Cutworms Moth (aka larval "miller's").  Thanks for sharing.

Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins

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On Feb 27, 2021, at 10:09 AM, Annette Aguero <annette.aguero4faith@gmail.com> wrote:


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While looking at new homes today near Chatfield Reservoir, I happened to come across about 20 Meadowlarks. It was so fun seeing so many. 
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[cobirds] Re: 10,000 Cranes


In your experience, how long do you expect they'll hang around?   We are planning a trip down and it would be great to know our time window.  We don't need 10000, 1000 would be plenty!   
On Friday, February 26, 2021 at 8:55:28 AM UTC-7 mvjo...@gmail.com wrote:
Numbers have increased at the Monte Vista Refuge and there are 8,000 to 10,000 cranes there now. Go to the usual drive turnouts and you will not be disappointed. Plus a few more thousand scattered across the San Luis Valley. They are not quite peak so more birds are expected. There are also good numbers of Cackling  and Canada Geese,  Mallards, Pintails, Gadwall, GW and Cinnamon Teal, Redhead and Ring-necked Ducks. Harriers float on the breezes. Bald Eagles send the flocks aloft when they happen by. At Blanca Wetlands (which is currently closed) biologists out there conducting water management saw a male Red-breasted merganser, rare for this Valley, this past week. Should be watched for.

John Rawinski
Monte Vista, CO 

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[cobirds] are they hosting the crane festival this year in Monte Vista

if so, i'm there!!

bonnie boex
denver

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Friday 26 February 2021

[cobirds] sign of spring

Attachment available until Mar 28, 2021
While looking at new homes today near Chatfield Reservoir, I happened to come across about 20 Meadowlarks. It was so fun seeing so many. 
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[cobirds] Re: Odd duck at Fort Collins City Park (Sheldon Lake) - Larimer on 5Dec2020

7847_042120alo.jpg

Similar duck I photographed at Alamosa County last April. 

On Saturday, December 5, 2020 at 10:21:38 PM UTC-7 Dave Leatherman wrote:
Today at Sheldon Lake in Fort Collins City Park I was scanning thru the 150 or so Mallards and saw one with a head that was green throughout the top half and tan throughout the bottom half.  It had a maroon chest, yellow and black beak and body like a female Mallard.  In perusing the Sibley Field Guide he actually shows a very similar bird and says it is a known rare occurrence of a female that has certain male field marks (namely, the top of the head coloration and the chest).  I have seen individuals that apparently are hybrids between Mallard and Black or Mallard and Mexican, that show odd green color configurations on the head, but never one with this head pattern and assortment of other gender characteristics.  Just thought I'd share.

   

Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins

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[cobirds] 10,000 Cranes

Numbers have increased at the Monte Vista Refuge and there are 8,000 to 10,000 cranes there now. Go to the usual drive turnouts and you will not be disappointed. Plus a few more thousand scattered across the San Luis Valley. They are not quite peak so more birds are expected. There are also good numbers of Cackling  and Canada Geese,  Mallards, Pintails, Gadwall, GW and Cinnamon Teal, Redhead and Ring-necked Ducks. Harriers float on the breezes. Bald Eagles send the flocks aloft when they happen by. At Blanca Wetlands (which is currently closed) biologists out there conducting water management saw a male Red-breasted merganser, rare for this Valley, this past week. Should be watched for.

John Rawinski
Monte Vista, CO 

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[cobirds] late report...varied thrush Cherry Creek SP

Varied thrush CCSP Tues evening Feb 23
 
    All winter there have been 20-30 robins out the road to the gun range, from any bushes until the road turns through the fence/gate and even to the trees to the left of the gate.  Late afternoon Feb 23 there was a varied thrush on the right side of the road.  It sat on a tree branch for over two minutes, then dropped toward the ground as light dimmed.  I went back on Wednesday but did not see the bird.  I would believe the bird is still there, and difficult to find, as I have birded this place many times this winter without seeing it.
 
One of my favorite times of year occurs as ice thaws in early spring and ducks arrive.  At the Cottonwood creek pond there were two pairs of hooded mergansers and one pair of gadwall.  In the water by the marina were many common goldeneye, two lesser scaup, about a dozen hooded mergansers, 25 common/American mergansers, and lots of mallards.
 
Karl Stecher
Aurora/Arapahoe
 
 

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Thursday 25 February 2021

Re: [cobirds] Re: Odd duck at Fort Collins City Park (Sheldon Lake) - Larimer on 5Dec2020

Icymi-- Different species, and different phenology, but related to similar genetic regime...


Marty Wolf
NW CO Spgs


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From: Eric DeFonso <bay.wren@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [cobirds] Re: Odd duck at Fort Collins City Park (Sheldon Lake) - Larimer on 5Dec2020

The following link goes to an article on the BBC page from a few years ago, titled, "How Does a Duck Change Its Sex?" It does a nice job explaining in layperson terms of genetics and life history what the phenomenon even is, and although it's mostly about the article writer's particular Mandarin Duck, it applies to most if not all ducks.
A very pertinent and recommended read:


Eric

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On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 7:42 AM Kathy and Jeff Dunning <mihmdunning@gmail.com> wrote:
I agree with Sebastian.

I had a very similar creature a couple of summers ago in the mountains and sent the photos to Steve Mlodinow.  He responded that it was likely an "intersex duck". This occurs when a female gets old, starts running low on hormones and starts looking like a basic plumaged (ie: breeding plumage) male.

Pretty cool.

Good birding,
Kathy Mihm Dunning
Denver


On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 6:21 AM Sebastian Patti <sebastianpatti@hotmail.com> wrote:
Age may play a role in that as well . . . possibly a VERY old female.

sebastianpatti@hotmail.com
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Subject: [cobirds] Odd duck at Fort Collins City Park (Sheldon Lake) - Larimer on 5Dec2020
 
Today at Sheldon Lake in Fort Collins City Park I was scanning thru the 150 or so Mallards and saw one with a head that was green throughout the top half and tan throughout the bottom half.  It had a maroon chest, yellow and black beak and body like a female Mallard.  In perusing the Sibley Field Guide he actually shows a very similar bird and says it is a known rare occurrence of a female that has certain male field marks (namely, the top of the head coloration and the chest).  I have seen individuals that apparently are hybrids between Mallard and Black or Mallard and Mexican, that show odd green color configurations on the head, but never one with this head pattern and assortment of other gender characteristics.  Just thought I'd share.

   

Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins

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[cobirds] Colorado Christmas Bird Count highlights

Since a few people were asking what were the highlights for this past winter's Colorado Christmas Bird Counts.

Here is a quick report.  The species total for the 49 Colorado CBCs is 199 species on count day, plus six count week species.  There are many other highlights, that I will summarize in my Annual Summary, for Colorado CBCs.

Here are the countable species that were only found on 1 of the 49 Colorado CBC (count day species) this past winter:
Black Scoter (Durango CBC)
Greater Sage-Grouse (Granby)
Gunnison Sage-Grouse (Gunnison)
Greater Prairie-Chicken (Bonny Reservoir)
Red-throated Loon (Pueblo Reservoir)
Red-necked Grebe (Pueblo Reservoir)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Denver (Urban)
Osprey (Hotchkiss)
Mew Gull (Pueblo Reservoir)
Glaucous-winged Gull (Loveland)
Greater Roadrunner (Pueblo Reservoir)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Pueblo)
Eastern Phoebe (Fort Collins)
Carolina Wren (John Martin Reservoir)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Grand Junction)
Wood Thrush (Pueblo)
Varied Thrush (North Jeff Co)
Gray Catbird (Rocky Ford)
Sage Thrasher (Hotchkiss)
Bohemian Waxwing (Steamboat Springs)
Snow Bunting (Granby)
Orange-crowned Warbler (Grand Junction)
Common Yellowthroat (Boulder)
Pine Warbler (Longmont)
Field Sparrow (Colorado Springs)
Fox Sparrow - Sooty (Boulder)
Fox Sparrow - Slate-colored (Roaring Fork River Valley)
Golden-crowned Sparrow (Grand Junction)
Yellow-headed Blackbird (John Martin Reservoir)
Rusty Blackbird (John Martin Reservoir)
Purple Finch (John Martin Reservoir)

Here are the Count Week only species:
Eurasian Wigeon (Penrose)
White-tailed Ptarmigan (Aspen)
Yellow-billed Loon (John Martin Reservoir)
Clark's Grebe (Pueblo Reservoir)
Dunlin (Loveland)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Longmont)
Fox Sparrow - Red (John Martin Reservoir)

Brandon Percival
Colorado CBC Regional Editor
Pueblo West, CO

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[cobirds] Colorado Christmas Bird Count Update

Hi all,

All of the Colorado Christmas Bird Count for this past winter have been entered into the Christmas Bird Count website.  Please look through the results.

https://netapp.audubon.org/CBCObservation/CurrentYear/ResultsByCount.aspx
Then choose United States
Then choose Colorado
Then you can see all the Colorado CBCs

If you see anything that needs to be corrected please let me know before the weekend.  If you participated in any Colorado Christmas Bird Count this past winter, please look at the results of that count, make sure your name is spelled right, and is on the list.  You can email me, and I will make sure your name is spelled correctly.

A big THANKS to all the Colorado Bird Count Compilers and participants, we were able to get 49 Colorado Christmas Bird Counts completed in Colorado, this past winter.  Even with this strange year, and not all the counts being held, Colorado still found 198 countable species on Christmas Bird Counts, plus six other species during count week, that weren't seen on count day on any count.

Brandon Percival
Colorado CBC Regional Editor
Pueblo West, CO

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Fwd: [cobirds] Announcing free gull ID workshop



All are welcome to attend CFO's next Birding Skills Workshop on GULL IDENTIFICATION presented by CFO President Nick Komar, February 28, 7 pm, via Zoom. 

Register (no cost) in advance for this meeting: 
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Nick is a self-proclaimed "Larophile" (gull lover) who grew up with east coast gulls and moved to Colorado in 1997, where he was pleased to discover that the Colorado Front Range attracts a great variety of gulls from all directions, north, south, east and west. This workshop will be about 90 minutes in duration and be geared towards novice and intermediate birders in Colorado. Nick has given similar presentations to CFO audiences as well as DFO and Denver Audubon Master Naturalists.  

Diana Beatty
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Wednesday 24 February 2021

[cobirds] Boulder birds and mink

I birdied a bit this morning  in  the vicinity of Boulder Creek at 75th.  Best bird was Yellow-rumped Warbler. Was hoping for Cinnamon Teal reported yesterday, but no luck.  The real treat was seeing a mink with a trout, apparently just caught since it was alive and moving.  It was about 1/4 mile west of 75th.
David Waltman
Boulder

Re: [cobirds] NM birding guide - free

To that end, I might mention there is a pretty cool Facebook group called Ornithology Book Classifieds where you can sell and buy all kinds of field guides and ornithology books if they're not Colorado related (or even if they are) -I've seen some pretty cool stuff posted there.

Diana Beatty
El Paso County

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:37 AM David Suddjian <dsuddjian@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks everyone. I will continue to endeavor to keep the list focused on CO, as that is its focus. In this case, an initial post is no big deal on its own, of course, but then another offer comes, and then the door is open. My moderating philosophy is that it is better to keep things focused.

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:29 AM Gary Brower <grb4914@gmail.com> wrote:
What Ira said.

Gary Brower
Unincorporated Arapahoe County


On Feb 24, 2021, at 11:23 AM, Douglas Kibbe <dpkibbe@msn.com> wrote:

Agreed. 
Doug Kibbe


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Subject: Re: [cobirds] Re: NM birding guide - free
 
Well David, I  feel Chris Fleuriel was doing a service for cobirders in offering that book and don't see a problem with it. 
Ira Sanders

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This is a Colorado Birds list, so let's keep discussion focused there, please. 

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 8:16 AM Sibylle Hechtel <sibylle.ch@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd love it! I'm heading south to NM, and Bosque del Apache, in March! 

On Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 8:21:38 PM UTC-7 chrisf...@gmail.com wrote:
Good morning,

Next month I will be returning to New England. I have a practically brand new copy of Birding Hot Spots of Central New Mexico that I probably won't be needing. Are there any takers? I live in Aurora, but am willing to mail it. Thanks.

Chris Fleuriel

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Re: [cobirds] NM birding guide - free

Thanks everyone. I will continue to endeavor to keep the list focused on CO, as that is its focus. In this case, an initial post is no big deal on its own, of course, but then another offer comes, and then the door is open. My moderating philosophy is that it is better to keep things focused.

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Littleton CO

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:29 AM Gary Brower <grb4914@gmail.com> wrote:
What Ira said.

Gary Brower
Unincorporated Arapahoe County


On Feb 24, 2021, at 11:23 AM, Douglas Kibbe <dpkibbe@msn.com> wrote:

Agreed. 
Doug Kibbe


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Subject: Re: [cobirds] Re: NM birding guide - free
 
Well David, I  feel Chris Fleuriel was doing a service for cobirders in offering that book and don't see a problem with it. 
Ira Sanders

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 9:12 AM David Suddjian <dsuddjian@gmail.com> wrote:
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This is a Colorado Birds list, so let's keep discussion focused there, please. 

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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 8:16 AM Sibylle Hechtel <sibylle.ch@gmail.com> wrote:
I'd love it! I'm heading south to NM, and Bosque del Apache, in March! 

On Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 8:21:38 PM UTC-7 chrisf...@gmail.com wrote:
Good morning,

Next month I will be returning to New England. I have a practically brand new copy of Birding Hot Spots of Central New Mexico that I probably won't be needing. Are there any takers? I live in Aurora, but am willing to mail it. Thanks.

Chris Fleuriel

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