[cobirds] 2021 lek viewing COVID impacts?

Hi - I'd like to make my first visit to a lek this year.  There's a fair amount of info online about locations, but not much if any on closures/restrictions.  Does anyone know of one or more leks that will be visitable this year?  I'm open to any of the species and up for a long drive.  Thanks, Jeff

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[cobirds] Merlin at Sawhill Ponds, Boulder

Today in the light snow I went with a visiting Chilean friend to Sawhill in search of owls and whoever else was around. We dipped on the owls, but found a Merlin, I think female prairie, very brown, no grey. He took pictures, which I can send if anyone wants (once he sends them to me) and which I will post on the eBird list. Lots of hooded and common mergansers, no surprises, but a wonderful midday collection of expected birds.

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[cobirds] Old Oklahoma and Kansas Ornithological publications

Hi Everyone,

I am looking to give away old issues of the Bulletin of the Oklahoma Ornithological Society covering the years of May 1968 to March 1984. I also have old issues of the Kansas Ornithological Society Bulletin covering the years of June 1994 to December 2018.

If you are interested in these publications please contact me off line.

Thanks!
Lisa Edwards
Palmer Lake, CO

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[cobirds] Allenspark

I visited a number of spots today in the mountains in Estes Park Allenspark and in Wardlots of Common Goldeneye at Lake Estes but no Barrow's-in Allenspark on Ski Road there are new(to me) feeders at the houses just where the road turns sharply left-the larger house there has always had some feeders but the smaller cabin there now has a group of 4-5feeders right by the road and a convenient pull-off 10-15 yards from the feeders-it's not the Fawnbrook Inn but a lot better than nothing! Had Pine Siskins PygmyRed-breasted Nuthatches and Clark's Nutcracker and Mountain Chickadees and two Turkeys under the feeders-couldn't find any active feeders in Ward but couldn't access Todd Deininger'smap because I had no service there places I usually check weren't active. Good winter birding! Bill Fink

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Re: [cobirds] Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Jefferson County

Many roads have not changed (birds can...over time), but you might try "A Birder's Guide to Colorado (ABA/Lane Birdfinding Guide) 4th Edition".  You can order this online from many vendors.

This book was the "bible" many years ago and gives turn-by-turn directions to MANY great Colorado birding areas AND then tells you what you may see once you arrive.  Bonus are the bar charts at the back...when used by newer birders it can help keep a birder from reporting birds that are not likely that time of year (for example, vireos of any kind in February, etc.).

Joey.

Joey Kellner

Littleton, Colorado

On Sunday, January 24, 2021 at 3:33:22 PM UTC-7 u5b2...@gmail.com wrote:

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Oftentimes, I have no clue where exactly to go to see a bird. A lot of times, it is my first visit to the area. Many times, I have absolutely no idea where to park. 

If only all hotspots came with your wonderful set of directions! 

Susan Rosine

Brighton 

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021, 12:32 PM Brian Johnson <bunting...@gmail.com> wrote:

The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker that was reported a few days ago (thanks to who found it) continues today. It is along the Bear Creek Greenbelt, ebird hotspot is Kipling to Wadsworth, you can park in the large parking lot just of Estes St, which can be access from Yale (Called the Stone House on Google Maps). The bird is in some pines at the Lakewood City Open Space maintenance area. I am not sure if you can go there so  I saw it from across the river. If you walk under Estes underpass (west) their will be a dirt area that over looks the river not far up stream. From their I got a distant look at the bird.

 Again I am not sure if you can walk around the Lakewood maintenance area which is directly across Estes street. The tree is in the fenced area.

The area is good for other birds also, I found 9 Blue Jays in a single tree. I think that is the most I have seen in a single tree together.

Good Birding

Brian Johnson

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Re: [cobirds] Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Jefferson County

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Oftentimes, I have no clue where exactly to go to see a bird. A lot of times, it is my first visit to the area. Many times, I have absolutely no idea where to park. 

If only all hotspots came with your wonderful set of directions! 

Susan Rosine

Brighton 

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021, 12:32 PM Brian Johnson <buntingrobinjay@gmail.com> wrote:

The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker that was reported a few days ago (thanks to who found it) continues today. It is along the Bear Creek Greenbelt, ebird hotspot is Kipling to Wadsworth, you can park in the large parking lot just of Estes St, which can be access from Yale (Called the Stone House on Google Maps). The bird is in some pines at the Lakewood City Open Space maintenance area. I am not sure if you can go there so  I saw it from across the river. If you walk under Estes underpass (west) their will be a dirt area that over looks the river not far up stream. From their I got a distant look at the bird.

 Again I am not sure if you can walk around the Lakewood maintenance area which is directly across Estes street. The tree is in the fenced area.

The area is good for other birds also, I found 9 Blue Jays in a single tree. I think that is the most I have seen in a single tree together.

Good Birding

Brian Johnson

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[cobirds] Jan. 26 BCAS presents Sue Cass on Burrowing Owls in Boulder County

The details to join this zoom meeting can be found below.  We hope to see you online for Sue's stellar presentation!

Burrowing Owls in Boulder County: A tiny owl's battle for survival! – ONLINE MEETING

Burrowing Owls with butterfly prey item. Photo courtesy of Audubon Field Guide.

Join Boulder County Audubon in an online meeting on January 26th, 2021 to learn from Sue Cass about the fascinating history of Burrowing Owls in Boulder County and the work done by our County, City, and many BCAS members who have volunteered to monitor these charismatic owls.

In 1909, Junius Henderson, founder and first Curator of the University of Colorado Henderson Museum of Natural History, declared Burrowing Owl "our most abundant owl on the plains". Boy, have things changed! By the 1990s, Burrowing Owl had nearly disappeared from Boulder County. In 2008, Boulder County Parks and Open Space (BCPOS), City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) and the Boulder County Audubon Society (BCAS), with support from the Boulder County Nature Association (BCNA), united in a single cause to locate and monitor every Burrowing Owl nest in the County and the fact that Burrowing Owl is a prairie dog commensal interfuses survival challenges for both species here on the burgeoning Front Range! This is a report on thirteen years of Burrowing Owl monitoring in Boulder County!

Burrowing Owl. Photo by Steve Jones.

Sue Cass is the proud matriarch of a six generation Boulder family and a passionate life-long birder. Sue has contributed enormously to the local ecological community, for which the Boulder County Audubon Society awarded Sue its 2014 Environmental Conservation Award and in 2015 Sue received Boulder County Parks and Open Space Environmental Stewardship Award. Sue's contributions include serving on the Board of Directors of Boulder County Nature Association, since 2001, currently as president; serving on the BCPOS Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee; coordinating the BCNA Winter Raptor Survey since 2001; and coordinator the volunteers for the last 10 years for the BCPOS Burrowing Owl Survey. Sue is also a Volunteer Naturalist for Boulder County Parks and Open Space since 2001 and provides advanced training in raptor ecology and field ID for new Volunteer Naturalists and raptor nest monitors in addition to field ID and instruction on interpretive public programing on the broader subject of the birds of Boulder County.

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