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Monday, 27 July 2015

re: [cobirds] Re: Denver has two new eBird hotspots - Coors Field and Sports Authority Field at Mile High (restricted access)

I'm very happy with football and birding. List to soon follow.

Karl Stecher

Centennial

From: "David Wade" <davespeedbump@gmail.com>
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Subject: [cobirds] Re: Denver has two new eBird hotspots - Coors Field and Sports Authority Field at Mile High (restricted access)

Meanwhile... I'm feeling kinda lonely over here at the other hotspot http://ebird.org/ebird/hotspot/L3788886 Why is it birding and baseball feels like a natural fit but football and birding, not so much?

David Wade
Ft Collins

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[cobirds] Re: Denver has two new eBird hotspots - Coors Field and Sports Authority Field at Mile High (restricted access)

[cobirds] Why did the pine grosbeak eat in the road? Larimer County

Yesterday we drove up Fall River Rd. in RMNP, and near the top where the road levels out we saw 2 male and 1 female pine grosbeak eating something in the dirt roadbed. (We also saw a male & female at Lake Irene, in a tree). Then returning to our cabin in Allenspark at 8700 ft. elevation we saw 2 females who were also eating in the middle of a dirt road. This location is where we have seen a bird in the road in July of the last 2 years, so possibly breeding nearby. Can anyone suggest what they find to eat? We considered crushed pinecones, but there are none on the tundra.

Candice Johnson, Denver, CO

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[cobirds] Re: Denver has two new eBird hotspots - Coors Field and Sports Authority Field at Mile High (restricted access)

Hey, everybody. Yesterday I put some work into building up the list for this eBird hotspot. The things I do for you people. Here's a summary of the efforts to date of David Dowell, Ira Sanders, Jason Forbes, Alec Hopping, and Yours Truly:

http://ebird.org/ebird/hotspot/L3788878

Oddly, all records for this site occur before mid-August in the year--as if there's never any reason to be at the site after the MLB season has reached the three-quarters mark?

Here is yesterday's checklist:

http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S24399307

And here are photos and further details:

http://tinyurl.com/CoFi-2015-07-26a

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County

On Monday, July 13, 2015 at 4:48:15 PM UTC-6, Joe Roller wrote:

Thanks to Bill Kaempfer's most excellent suggestion, and David Dowell's 5th inning bird sightings, the city and county of Denver now has two brand new
eBIRD hotspots:

Coors Field (restricted access )
and Sports Authority Field at Mile High (restricted access)

Who among us has not overcome the "restricted access" by purchasing a ticket, proceeding through the guarded
gates, only to find that counting birds trumps the game?

I myself fondly recall the Black-Crowned Night-Heron fly-overs at Coors Field, during an 8-0 Dodgers shut-out.

I declined to add the Pepsi Center but would reconsider if reports come in of the Zamboni machine being driven by a penguin during an Avalanche game.

Joe Roller,
Denver

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[cobirds] Baird's Sparrow, Larimer County

The CR 5 Baird's Sparrow was seen today by at least 6 birders between 7 and 8am .A second bird was heard singing in this area also.

The blue tractor is gone, so head north on CR 5, cross the RR tracks and then stop just north of the first cattle guard. The bird was perched and singing to the west.

Todd Deininger
Longmont, CO

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[cobirds] Weld Co. Sparrow ID

Duh! Grasshopper Sparrow. VERY different from the ones on Marshall Mesa in Boulder.

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[cobirds] High Plains Birding Club Saturday Field Trip Results

A group of 15-20 birders enjoyed a fabulous outing (and hot weather) to the high plains of Northern Colorado and Cheyenne, WY for our target species longspurs. They did not disappoint.

At Weld CR 108/Hwy 85 SE corner (permitted area) we had numerous Grasshopper Sparrow, Lark Bunting, two calling McCown's Longspurs and when we fanned out in the field other reported getting good views of McCown's and possible female Chestnut-collared. On to Chalk Bluffs Road just over WY border.

We probably saw and heard 12+ Chestnuts along the south portion--and a few McCown's. At one stop we had the McCown's closeup in hay covering new underground pipeline along road. Numerous points along road had Chestnuts flying about. My "plant" male Chestnut-collared did not disappoint--present and very active with others in the same vicinity.

We then went over to Hereford Ranch for a visit and some had lunch as well. Nothing rare found here. This spring migration they had a cuckoo here as told by Mark and Barb G from Cheyenne, WY.

Sunday my wife and I heard Nick's Baird's Sparrow near cattle crossing about one mile in. Also at same locale on east were 12+ Burrowing Owls. In Nunn on way to Greeley along Weld CR 33 owl site (btw 98/100) we had 10 Burrowing Owls on the fence line.

Thanks
Gary Lefko, Nunn
http://coloradobirder.ning.com/
Mobile: http://coloradobirder.ning.com/m

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