[cobirds] NestWatch's first fledglings are Eurasian Collared-Doves from Colorado

I'm just passing along something from today's NestWatch email -- the first fledglings reported (so far) through Cornell's NestWatch program are Eurasian Collared-Doves in Berthoud, Colorado, on February 7. Video of them hatching is here: https://nestwatch.org/connect/participant-photo/january-21-2024-hatching/. 

- Jared Del Rosso

Centennial, CO

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[cobirds] Boulder County Audubon program tonight! (2/27) Three billion birds lost, and counting...

Please join Boulder Audubon tonight!!  (Tu 2/27) to hear Arvind Panjabi, Senior Research Scientist with Bird Conservancy of the Rockies, speak on the decline of grassland birds. A 2019 paper in the journal Science, on which he is a coauthor, reported a decline of 3 billion birds, or nearly 30% of the population, since 1970. How are conservation organizations, landowners, government agencies, and others responding to this finding? What is Bird Conservancy of the Rockies is doing to address grassland bird declines in the U.S. and Mexico?  He'll share some encouraging news from early successes and suggest how we can all contribute to recovery of bird populations.

Tuesday, February 27, 7:15 – 8:45 pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder (5001 Pennsylvania Ave).

Also live-streamed via Zoom, and recorded and posted to the BCAS youtube approximately two weeks after the event.

For details and Zoom link: https://www.boulderaudubon.org/all-events/bird-conservation-feb-2024

Sandra Laursen, for BCAS programs committee

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[cobirds] Other MVNWR Birds

With the thousands of cranes showing up, there are other birds showing up on the open water areas as well. 

Six Greater White-fronted Geese, Cacklers, Canada and a single Snow Goose were present on the first pond on your left on the auto tour loop. Redhead, GW Teal, Pintails, Mallards, and Bald Eagles are around too. 

Each day will bring a new array!

John Rawinski

Monte Vista CO

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[cobirds] DFO program Monday, February 26 at 7 PM via Zoom

Join award winning Colorado landscape designer/horiculturalist Jim Tolstrup, director of the High Plains Environmental Center, for a presentation on the relationship between native plants and wildlife. Tolstrup is the author of Suburbitat: A Guide to Restoring Nature Where We Live, Work, and Play. 

Register on the Upcoming Programs page of the DFO website at www.dfobirds.org. 

As always, DFO programs are free and open to all. 

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[cobirds] Water and Birds at Monte Vista

Hey all. It is always amazing when the Monte Refuge turns on the water. It seems the birds spring out of the grassy sod overnight! So as water is spread about, the birds have shown up with a few thousand cranes, Canada and Cackling Geese, Pintail, Mallard and GW teal. 

At least one Great Horned Owl is on nest. 

Nice to see the cranes return as always!

John Rawinski

Monte Vista, CO

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[cobirds] BCAS Field Trip: Telescope Tag with Jupiter’s Moons, Mar 7, 8, or 9

Join Community Naturalist Dave Sutherland for a telescopic peek into the vast reaches of the sky. Jupiter is high in the sky in March. With a large telescope, over the course of an evening we'll watch its four brightest moons move back and forth as they orbit the planet. We may also look at the Orion Nebula, colorful double stars, glittering clusters of young suns, or maybe a distant galaxy spinning at mind-numbing distances.

For more information: https://www.boulderaudubon.org/all-events/telescope-tag-with-jupiters-moons 

To reserve your spot, contact the trip leader after 6:00 pm on Monday February 26; contact information is available on the Boulder Audubon Society webpage listed above. Early registration is not accepted.

NOTE: The program will be offered once, on the night with the best weather forecast. Registered participants will get email updates on the night selected.

Date:  Thursday March 7 or Friday March 8, or Saturday March 9, 7-9 pm

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[cobirds] Mar 3: First Sunday Bird Watching at Greenlee Wildlife Preserve, Lafayette

Everyone, including beginning birders, are invited to experience the fun and discovery of bird watching at the Greenlee Wildlife Preserve on the first Sunday of each month year-round. Knowledgeable bird watchers will be on hand with binoculars, spotting scopes, and learning tools to assist in the fun activity of identifying birds in their natural habitats.  

No RSVP required - drop by anytime between the hours of 1:00 and 3:00 PM. Park in Waneka Lake lot and walk around the lake to Greenlee or park on nearby Waneka Lake Trail.

For more information on the Sunday, March 3 event: https://www.boulderaudubon.org/all-events/lafayette-birds-first-sunday-bird-watching-mar-2024

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[cobirds] LCC Woods (Prowers)

I have been in Lamar for a couple weeks and visited LCC Woods several times. Best birds have been multiple Northern Cardinals, multiple Lesser Goldfinches, single Spotted Towhee (male), 1-2 Townsend's Solitaires, one Hermit Thrush, eastern White-breasted Nuthatch, at least 3 Yellow-rumped Warblers and White-winged Doves. I am almost positive I heard a Winter Wren and a Brown Thrasher but have been unable to confirm either. Of interest to me today (high of 63 degrees) was a conspicuous flight of subterranean termites (not unusual for warm days in late winter) that fed the yellow-rumps.

On 2/16 at the south end of nearby Willow Creek Park in pines I had an adult female Red-naped Sapsucker (two-toned red and white throat and weakly margined throat patch, however, no red on nape (which Sibley says rarely is the case)).
Others have tried for this bird without success. An adult male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker was at the north end of this park before Christmas. I strongly suspect it is still present based on several freshly-worked sapwell patches in pines but I haven't found it yet.

A very dark taiga (or Pacific) Merlin was at the intersection of Parmenter and Division on 2/16.

Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins


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[cobirds] Park & trail guides

I have a huge pile of park and trail guides to places all over Colorado, all of them 20 years old or so. Can anyone suggest a depository for them?

Hugh Kingery

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[cobirds] Townsend’s Solitaire, Boulder County

Birders:

I pulled off of 75th Street between South Boulder Road and Baseline Road into Fairview Estates to make a cell phone call and while I was on hold,  a Townsend's Solitaire landed on the mirror on the right side of my Subaru!  I looked at it looking at me and couldn't take a picture because I was on the phone. (I went back to take px of it and to see if the bird would fly to my car again, but a man (a homeowner whose driveway I turned around in) blocked my way with his car and yelled at me. It was frightening. ) I had pulled onto the side of Wewota Way in front of his house to make my phone call.

I've never had a bird land on one of my side mirrors, plus I haven't seen any solitaires east of the foothills this winter.

Paula Hansley 

Louisville

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[cobirds] BCAS Program: Three Billion Birds Lost… and Counting – Feb 27

Boulder Country Audubon Society's February meeting will include a presentation by Arvind Panjabi, Senior Research Scientist with Bird Conservancy of the Rockies, on the loss of grassland birds and how conservation organizations, landowners, government agencies, and others have responded to a recent report on the loss of 3 billion birds. He will share the latest on what Bird Conservancy of the Rockies is doing to address grassland bird declines through their work in the U.S. and Mexico. He'll also share some encouraging news from early successes and how we can all contribute to recovering bird populations.

Tuesday, February 27, 7:15 – 8:45 pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder (5001 Pennsylvania Ave).

Zoom details will be available the day of the event.

The presentation will be recorded and posted approximately two weeks after the event.

For more information: https://www.boulderaudubon.org/all-events/bird-conservation-feb-2024

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[cobirds] BCAS Program: Three Billion Birds Lost… and Counting – Feb 27

Boulder Country Audubon Society's February meeting will include  a presentation by Arvind Panjabi, Senior Research Scientist with Bird Conservancy of the Rockies, on the loss of grassland birds and how conservation organizations, landowners, government agencies, and others have responded to a recent report on the loss of 3 billion birds. He will share the latest on what Bird Conservancy of the Rockies is doing to address grassland bird declines through their work in the U.S. and Mexico. He'll also share some encouraging news from early successes and how we can all contribute to recovering bird populations.

Tuesday, February 27, 7:15 – 8:45 pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder (5001 Pennsylvania Ave).

Zoom details will be available the day of the event.

The presentation will be recorded and posted approximately two weeks after the event.

For more information: https://www.boulderaudubon.org/all-events/bird-conservation-feb-2024

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[cobirds] Dark intermediate morph Ferruginous Hawk on Wildlife Drive at Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR

We took our 8 year old grandson Oliver --who loves raptors and is excellent at finding them -- on a raptor trip and saw a beautiful adult dark intermediate morph Ferruginous Hawk at the end of the Wildlife Drive at Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR. Being dark morph, it was difficult to identify -- the other possibility being a dark morph Red-tailed Hawk. Reasons for our ID are on our eBird note below:

"Dark intermediate morph adult, rufous breasted type (see Raptors of Western North America by Brian K Wheeler) deep dark brown all over with reddish-black breast with brown feathers, long yellow gape reaching mid-eye, yellow cere, rufous feathers on scapulars, silvery edges to primaries when perched, gray-brown tail dorsally with narrow vague bands with rufous at the tip, when it flew could see white flashes on dorsum of the outer wings.  Initially seen on the ground in a prairie dog colony, then flew to a utility pole where it was not disturbed by our presence."

See eBird link for images:

https://ebird.org/checklist/S161677940

Dark and intermediate morph Ferruginous Hawk are rather unusual in that they represent only 0-10%, the remainder being light morph.

This is only the second FEHA that was not a light morph we have ever seen, the first one was seen only in flight in Boulder last 2022-23 winter.

Ajit & Liza Antony

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[cobirds] Red-necked Grebe Ridgway Reservoir

A Red-necked Grebe has been hanging out with two Western Grebes at the Ridgway Reservoir for the past two days.  It may be a first county record for this species. Here is may eBird list with a couple of photos:  eBird Checklist - 16 Feb 2024 - Ridgway State Park — Cheaters Gate - 6 species (+1 other taxa).  A spotting scope is required to adequately see this bird.

Don Marsh

Ridgway, Ouray Co

[cobirds] Cranes are Rocking and Rolling Overhead

Mid day seems to be the time that many migrating birds arrive in Monte Vista  from Bosque. I figure if they lift off around 8:00 ish and have decent tail wind, they will arrive at Monte Vista a few hours later. So today, mid day, the skies are alive with croaks and whistles as birds in the stratosphere seem to be circling downward for this next stop. 

Quite exhilarating. 

A non crane question for the group. I thought I heard that Clark's Grebe and Western have been combined. Is that true? 

John Rawinski

Monte Vista, CO

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[cobirds] January 2024 Birds Woodland Park Yard Area and Beyond

January 2024 Birds Woodland Park Yard Area and Beyond

Red-tailed Hawk-
South Trout Creek, 1-17, pale juvenile seen there often, 2 today, twins

Wilson's Snipe-
Manitou Lake on 1-13, below spillway, at 7750 feet

Belted Kingfisher-
Manitou Lake on 1-5 and 1-17, M, below spillway, at 7750 feet
Manitou Lake on 1-13, below spillway eating small brook trout

Steller's Jay-
South Platte River near Lake George on 1-31, flock of about 6

Clark's Nutcracker-
Pikes Peak Highway Gate Area on 1-24, small flock
South Platte River near Lake George on 1-31, flock of about 20

American Crow-
Manitou Lake on 1-17, flock of about 40

White-breasted Nuthatch- one or two around most of the time
Lovell Gulch on 1-23, 5
South Platte River near Lake George on 1-31, 1

Mountain Chickadee-
Manitou Lake on 1-13, flock of 10

Song Sparrow-
Manitou Lake on 1-13, 2

Swamp Sparrow-
Manitou Lake on 1-5, wetlands on S side, elevation 7750 feet, same area one was seen on 10-31

Dark-eyed Junco-

Pink-sided- small flocks around most of the time
Manitou Lake on 1-5, flock of 15

White-winged- one around most of the time

Slate-colored- one or two around most of the time
Manitou Lake on 1-5, 1

Oregon-
Manitou Lake on 1-5, 1

Evening Grosbeak-
Memorial Park in Woodland Park, small flock on 1-13

Pine Siskin- 2 on 1-2, 2 on 1-28, 1-30
Pikes Peak Highway Gate Area on 1-24, small flock

House Finch- brief sing on 1-28

Cassin's Finch- small flocks around most of the time

Red Crossbill-
Manitou Lake on 1-13, flock of 15
South Platte River near Lake George on 1-31, noisy flock of about 12

House Sparrow- a few around most of the time

Abert's Squirrel-
Lovell Gulch on 1-23

Pine Squirrel-
South Platte River near Lake George on 1-31

Joe LaFleur

Woodland Park, Teller County, 8500 feet

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[cobirds] Great Blue Herons at Heronry Timnath

Today I saw two great blue herons perched on the side of a nest in the Heronry located in and borders what was the Swetzville site across from Walmart and Costco, Harmony Road.  This Heronry was established last year when a long-time nesting tree blew down located on the west side of I-25 near Harmony road.  This new nesting location involves several trees along the Poudre River.  Swetzville was sold some time ago but I do not know what future development plans are for this property that now has become the nesting location for MANY herons.

Jessie Meschievitz

Windsor CO

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Re: [cobirds] Crows, crows, and more crows

One thing I've noticed at other locations is that the places where crows stage before roosting when the day is ending, and even getting toward dark, are not always where they are actually roosting. 

I don't know the situation at Denver, but I have observed final roost entries happen when it is in the gloaming and the birds are moving quietly to sheltered spots, after noisily assembling. Here I refer to specific roost trees being different from the staging trees that may be close by, or even some distance from the actual roost. 

David

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 5:05 PM Doug Ward <dougward@frontier.com> wrote:

The past few days we have had large numbers (100+) of AMERICAN CROWs in our neighborhood in southwest Denver (Athmar Park neighborhood, Denver Co.).  This ensemble moves around and feeds in smaller tribes (15-20) with occasional diversions to harass the local hawks (RED-TAILED & COOPER'S).  Today there were at least 200 feeding together with geese up at the park (Huston Park) in addition to those scattered around the neighborhood.  As the day closes out, these maraudering tribes raucously congregate in trees and on roofs nearby before picking up and flying northeast towards downtown.  A lot of noisy and entertaining activity all day long, but have a question for the group:

 

Have any of you come across large nighttime roosts in central Denver?  I recall one used to form on the Auraria Campus and weirdly on the USBank building – anything this year?  Interested in your observations.

 

Good Crowing,

Doug

SW Denver

 

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[cobirds] Some Ken Caryl birds, JeffCo

My wintering Red Fox Sparrow has been a very sporadic and mostly uncooperative visitor over the last 5 weeks. It is still around, but is predictable only in that it has lately been appearing only in snowy conditions, and then briefly, and in not the best light at its favorite cover in my front yard.

Yesterday a Say's Phoebe was near my home - a winter season first for me at Ken Caryl Valley in 10 winters. They normally appear here only in the main migration periods and while nesting; even though winter birds are more regular down "in town," that is not the case within the hogbacks.  Similarly, a Mourning Dove calling today near my home had no February precedent here in Ken Caryl Valley by my observation. I have but one other record near my home between late Oct and the end of March. Perhaps both the Say's and Mourning were making some sort of seasonal movement and not just wandering a slight bit? I wonder.

A flock of nine Type 5 Red Crossbills flew over my home today. They have mostly been absent in my local area for a few months, and Type 5 has been missing here at Ken Caryl for a while. Types 2 and 4 were prominent here late summer to early fall, but none since. 

David Suddjian

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Re: [cobirds] Crows, crows, and more crows

Yep! For at least a month now they've been converging on Civic Center right downtown. Before that, I'd often see them a block or two north or south of Colfax and Sherman or thereabouts. Here they are mid-January in Civic Center Park.

Stacie West

Denver

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The past few days we have had large numbers (100+) of AMERICAN CROWs in our neighborhood in southwest Denver (Athmar Park neighborhood, Denver Co.).  This ensemble moves around and feeds in smaller tribes (15-20) with occasional diversions to harass the local hawks (RED-TAILED & COOPER'S).  Today there were at least 200 feeding together with geese up at the park (Huston Park) in addition to those scattered around the neighborhood.  As the day closes out, these maraudering tribes raucously congregate in trees and on roofs nearby before picking up and flying northeast towards downtown.  A lot of noisy and entertaining activity all day long, but have a question for the group:

 

Have any of you come across large nighttime roosts in central Denver?  I recall one used to form on the Auraria Campus and weirdly on the USBank building – anything this year?  Interested in your observations.

 

Good Crowing,

Doug

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[cobirds] Crows, crows, and more crows

The past few days we have had large numbers (100+) of AMERICAN CROWs in our neighborhood in southwest Denver (Athmar Park neighborhood, Denver Co.).  This ensemble moves around and feeds in smaller tribes (15-20) with occasional diversions to harass the local hawks (RED-TAILED & COOPER’S).  Today there were at least 200 feeding together with geese up at the park (Huston Park) in addition to those scattered around the neighborhood.  As the day closes out, these maraudering tribes raucously congregate in trees and on roofs nearby before picking up and flying northeast towards downtown.  A lot of noisy and entertaining activity all day long, but have a question for the group:

 

Have any of you come across large nighttime roosts in central Denver?  I recall one used to form on the Auraria Campus and weirdly on the USBank building – anything this year?  Interested in your observations.

 

Good Crowing,

Doug

SW Denver

 

[cobirds] HMANA (Hawk Migration Association of North America) Winter Raptor Survey from Bennett to Jackson Lake

We conducted a new survey route we created this winter season to add to the 3 surveys we did in 2022-2023 when we moved from New York to Denver. This one went from Bennett to Jackson Lake taking local mainly dirt roads. We completed this route in December 2023 and January 2024, doing the last one for the season for February yesterday.

We saw 54 raptors for the day over 6.75 hours and driving 129 miles:

1 immature Rough-legged Hawk – the only one we've seen this winter,

4 Prairie Falcon including 1 adult which was near enough to age,

4 Prairie (Richardson's) Merlin including 1 adult male with beautiful blue wings in the same tree we saw in December!

3 Ferruginous Hawk – 2 of which were adult,

6 Northern Harrier including 2 adult male,

5 adult Bald Eagle,

7 Red-tailed hawks including one Harlan's Hawk immature light morph, and

25 American Kestrel adults of both sexes.

This was higher than the 41 raptors we saw on January 2, 2024 (when we had of note 1 Prairie Falcon, 1 Prairie Merlin, 1 Golden Eagle and 3 Ferruginous Hawk), and the 32 we saw on December 9, 2023 (which included 2 Ferruginous Hawk and 1  Prairie Merlin).

You can see all these results at the HMANA Winter Raptor Survey (WRS) website at https://wrs.hmana.org/public_html/index.php  where you can see the results for Colorado as well as the rest of the country.

You can get general information about the voluntary WRS program at https://www.hmana.org/winter-raptor-survey/

Regarding the paucity of Rough-legged Hawk seen this winter season, we were at Saks-Zim Bog in Minnesota in January when we saw 20-25 RLHA over 2 days including many dark morphs, and our local guide told us that normally at that time of the year there are usually no Rough-legs to be seen there, but because of the very mild winter, they were still being sighted.

There was a HMANA Winter Raptor Survey done in South Dakota which is a little south of Saks-Zim Bog (roughly 200 miles) on February 11, 2024 which had a spectacular 44 light morph Rough-legs. The same survey route done on January 14, 2023 had yielded only 3 RLHA, and on January 26, 2022 had reported only 3 RLHA by the same observers, so they seem to be wintering further north this year.

Ajit and Liza Antony

Central Park which used to be Stapleton, Denver, Colorado

 

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[cobirds] Raptor Alley Survey (Nunn, CO)

I ran another Winter Raptor Survey this morning along the Raptor Alley route in Nunn. I had thirty raptors, a little above average (Avg=24) among seven species, which is about typical. Today's species:

• BAEA - 3
  
• GOEA - 2
  
• NOHA - 7
  
• RTHA - 4
  
• FEHA - 6
  
• AMKE - 7
  
• MERL - 1
  

Missed out on Prairie Falcon and Rough-legged, the latter seems to be in low numbers here in NOCO this winter (https://science.ebird.org/en/status-and-trends/species/rolhaw/trends-map?season=nonbreeding)

Here's the link to the HMANA Raptor Survey data for those interested (includes Colorado and National data): https://wrs.hmana.org/public_html/index.php

Robert Beauchamp

Fort Collins

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[cobirds] Cranes Start Arriving

Greetings. Just a heads up that Sandhill Cranes are starting to arrive as of this past week. This is pretty much on schedule. The water at the Monte Refuge should be turned on soon, and then the birds will be concentrating there. Right now they are scattered. 

We have had some Cranes winter here, which is a tad unusual. A few Virginia Rails and Marsh Wrens around warm water seep are also interesting. A Bittern was very unusual with our mostly-frozen conditions. It too hangs around seeps. 

Our friend Susan Hochstetler, the lady who fed hundreds of Rosy-finches each day and was a delight to so many visitors, has moved away. I have yet to find a reliable replacement location for folks to see these birds. 

See ya at the Crane Festival.

John Rawinski

Monte Vista, CO

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[cobirds] Colorado Christmas Bird Count update

This might be a record breaking Christmas Bird Count season for Colorado, already we are up to 209 species (usually right around 200, last year was lower than 200).  Over 650,000 birds were counted on Colorado Christmas Bird Counts this past week.  I'm waiting for a few more counts to be entered into the CBC Website, and details for a few rarities.  Thanks to all the compilers, participants, and feeder watchers who helped on Colorado Christmas Bird Counts this winter, and in years past.  If you want to look over any of the results, please do so.  

Go to https://netapp.audubon.org/CBCObservation/CurrentYear/ResultsByCount.aspx

Then United States

Then Colorado

and then all the Colorado CBCs will appear, click on one and check the results.

If you see any issues, please let me know.  If you helped with a Christmas Bird Count this year, and your name isn't on the participant list, just send me an e-mail, and I'll get you added.

Hopefully all the results will be entered by the end of February, and I will be finished reviewing all the results by early April.

Brandon Percival

Colorado Christmas Bird Count Regional Editor
Pueblo West, CO

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[cobirds] Prairie Merlin(?), Jefferson County

CObirders,

I saw a possible adult female or juvenile Prairie Merlin sitting in a small tree located in a field at 

~ 3 PM today while driving north on Wadsworth Blvd.  The bird was east of Wadsworth, north of Church Ranch Blvd., south of Hwy. 128, and southeast of Rocky Mountain Airport.

It was close enough to the highway that I could tell it wasn't a kestrel, plus it was sitting up straight, not bent over like a kestrel; however, it was about the same size as a kestrel.

I'm posting this in case anyone is in the area.

Paula Hansley 

Louisville 

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[cobirds] This Thursday - February 8 - Fort Collins Audubon hosts Arvind Panjabi talk on stopping the decline in bird populations

February's meeting of Fort Collins Audubon Society will feature a guest lecture by Arvind Panjabi, Senior Research Scientist at Bird Conservancy of the Rockies, on "Three Billion Birds Lost…and Counting: Can we stop the decline and bring them back?" All of us who enjoy observing birds should want to know what's causing the decline in numbers and how we can reverse the trend!

The meeting will run from 7-9pm on Thursday Feb. 8, with Arvind's talk starting at about 7:20pm. As always, we invite people to join us live and in-person at the Fort Collins Senior Center (1200 Raintree Drive, FoCo) or on Zoom at:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83890405859.

John Shenot

Fort Collins, CO

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[cobirds] New video on the BCAS channel - OSMP wildlife studies with remote cameras

Check out the latest video on the Boulder County Audubon youtube channel-- Christian Nunes' talk on the use of remote motion-triggered cameras to study wildlife on city open space (OSMP) lands, from the BCAS monthly series (1/23/24).  Lots of great animal behavior and insights!

https://youtu.be/3unHZ512-1Y

You can view and subscribe for lots of snowy-day learning about birds, bugs, mammals, herps, and public lands at BCAS' youtube channel, https://www.youtube.com/@bouldercountyaudubon 

For a preview of upcoming programs, visit https://www.boulderaudubon.org/all-events?category=Programs

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[cobirds] Yellow-billed Loon

Fellow Colorado Birders:

I saw the Yellow-billed Loon on the north shore of Lake Pueblo State Park, just east of the north marina, at approximately 13:20, 1 February.

No photos.

David Matson

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[cobirds] Re: BIRD BOMBS Feb 15 — dud fuse causes delay

Friends,

I'm sad to report that I will have to delay this episode of BIRD BOMBS due to technical issues. A new date and the next topic will be announced later this month. 

David Suddjian

Littleton Co

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Hi CoBirders,

Register now for the next BIRD BOMBS set to explode Feb. 15 at 7 pm:

Colorado Bird Taxonomy Made Simple .Bird taxonomy - the science of organizing and naming life forms - comes into play continually for birders. An understanding of bird relationships helps us in our identification and in appreciating what we see. This BIRD BOMBS will bring a Colorado focus to the topic, and have practical connections to how we bird.

Visit the DFO BIRD BOMBS video archive to view past episodes, including the recent double gull bombs: Get Gullable and I Wish They All Could Be California Gulls.

David suddjian

Littleton CO

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[cobirds] Chico Basin Ranch Access - El Paso/Pueblo Counties

Birder friends,

As questions regarding Chico Basin Ranch access are beginning to roll in, I'd like to clarify the new regulations per Aiken Audubon's birding lease with the CO State Land Board:

• ·       The last day to visit Chico under the current policy is Feb 29^th. The ranch will then close to birders until April 29, when banding begins. It will close on June 2^nd and reopen again from September 2 through Oct 6^th. The ranch will be closed to birders the remainder of the year.
  
• ·       Birders will need to register and pay ahead of time, likely up to 7 days in advance, through a system to be set up by Aiken Audubon.
• ·       Visitation will be capped at 20 birders/day, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., and access will be limited to the banding station, HQ and Rose Pond. The fee will be $15/person.
• ·       Groups will be able to register farther in advance, possibly 30 days prior to visiting, though that's not yet been worked out.
• ·       Consider signing up for Aiken's emails (monthly) to receive regular updates at: AikenAudubon.com, under "About".

To recap, access for birders: 

Now through Feb 29th

April 29 - June 2

Sept 2 - Oct 6

This first year will likely be bumpy as we work to comply with the requirements, so we ask for your patience. Any questions may be sent to me directly. 

Please spread the word to your  organizations and/or fellow birders.

Hope to see you on the ranch.

Linda Hodges

Aiken Audubon

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[cobirds] Boulder County - Pinyon Jays / Three Toed Woodpecker

All:

          Some sightings around Boulder County:

Three Toed Woodpecker - Enchanted Mesa,  Boulder Mountain Park. (1-30-24) I got good photos.  This bird was shredding a ponderosa pine tree trunk along the Enchanted Mesa Trail.  Nothing too unusual - but I normally see this species up much higher, like 8,000 feet or higher.   A few flaps of the wings and it would have been down in suburban Boulder.  

Pinyon Jays - Rabbit Mountain, Boulder County Open Space. (1-31-24)  About 12 seen down low along the dirt road going up towards the Eagle Wind Trail.  Foraging and calling, foraging in isolated ponderosa pines.  Again, nothing too unusual, as I see groups in periodically along the front range, but this was low elevation, and in poor foraging habitat.  (note:  the hunting cull for elk has ceased for the year, so you can now hike up there 7 days a week.  Check the Boulder County Open Space web site if unsure).  

Broomfield has had the usual stuff hitting the bird feeders, but a lot of waterfowl have left due to the ponds and lakes being frozen over.  One red breasted nuthatch seen.  Lots of mourning doves and e. collared doves and red winged blackbirds.  Foxes, raccoons, fox squirrels, and cottontails in my backyard.  

Cheers, 

John T (Tumasonis), Broomfield CO 

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