[Douglbirds] Douglbirds Digest, Vol 40, Issue 9

Thu Jun 19 16:58:49 EDT 2008

Answer to Lisa, Could it be that rose-throated Becard that I saw?? It and it's mate left not to be seen again.? Fran Shepperdson, Kiowa

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Today's Topics:

   1. Prairie Warblers & our backyard (ouzels8)
   2. CArdinal (ouzels8)
   3. Re: Prairie Warblers & our backyard (Lisa Crispin)

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:40:03 -0600
From: "ouzels8" <ouzels8 at aol.com>
Subject: [Douglbirds] Prairie Warblers & our backyard
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We spent Tuesday working in three Atlas blocks in central Elbert County with 
Doug Kibbe & Mackenzie Goldthwait, so we didn't trek up the trail to look for 
the Prairie Warbler. (I'm going to work on a message about atlasing results from 
Elbert, but that'll take a while.)

Besides, we have Prairie Warbler on our Yard List! One worked its way through 
the scrub oak and mountain mahogany above the house, singing vigorously, on May 
29, 2001.

This year's yard list has some new entries -- two nests. Since we had to take 
down all our bird feeders because they hold such interest to the pair of local 
bears, the traffic in the yard has diminished quite a bit: no more chickadees, 
jays, goldfinches, and the like. But the relative calm has led (maybe) to a pair 
of Cordilleran Flycatchers, now building a nest on a light fixture. Of course, 
it's right outside the door we use the most, and if on the nest, the bird 
flushes whenever we go near. I don't think the action of the dog door near it 
bothers the bird as much as we do. They haven't finished building the nest yet; 
we hope we don't upset them too much.

On the other side of the house, 10 days ago, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers had a fit 
over some invisible threat. They scurried around fussing, and eventually one 
with a stick and one with a spruce needle in their respective bills. Finally, 
two days ago, I detected the nest, 8-10 feet up in the crotch of a scrub oak 
branch. With a mirror on a pole, Urling and I looked at it this morning; nothing 
in it so far, but the gnatcatchers continue to squeak from that oak and some 
other nearby ones.

In the gully below the house a Red-eyed Vireo seems to have set up a territory. 
He tried our yard for a few minutes, two or three different days, but then 
settled down in the big old cottonwoods. That's a new bird for our yard, Number 
134, I think.

Hugh Kingery
Franktown, CO 
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:40:29 -0600
From: "ouzels8" <ouzels8 at aol.com>
Subject: [Douglbirds] CArdinal
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Connie Brett has reported a Northern Cardinal in Louviers off and on for several 
years. Somehow none of the rest of us has succeeded in seeing it, not even Tom 
Halverstadt who lives in Louviers. Connie called this morning to say that she 
saw a female gather nesting material (viz., dog hair that she combed from her 
dog) and fly off with it. 

She welcomes people to come a look for the bird. She lives at 3rd & Louviers 
Blvd. (the main street in Louviers); 7758 Louviers Blvd. is the address. She has 
a big tree house in the front and two tall spruces. 

If we can actually confirm nesting Cardinals, that would be terrific. 

Hugh Kingery
Franktown, CO 
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:52:10 -0600
From: "Lisa Crispin" <lisa.crispin at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Douglbirds] Prairie Warblers & our backyard
To: ouzels8 <ouzels8 at aol.com>
Cc: Douglbirds <Douglbirds at denveraudubon.org>
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I had no idea so many different birds existed in our area!

I'm having trouble identifying a bird that comes to our seed tray. It looks
like a longer, skinnier robin, it has a reddish breast, and is gray on the
back. It has a different beak than a robin. I can't find it in my Colorado
bird book. What might it be? (I know that isn't a very good description, I
can see it in my mind's eye but I'm no birder).
thanks,
Lisa

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:40 AM, ouzels8 <ouzels8 at aol.com> wrote:

>  We spent Tuesday working in three Atlas blocks in central Elbert County
> with Doug Kibbe & Mackenzie Goldthwait, so we didn't trek up the trail to
> look for the Prairie Warbler. (I'm going to work on a message about atlasing
> results from Elbert, but that'll take a while.)
>
> Besides, we have Prairie Warbler on our Yard List! One worked its way
> through the scrub oak and mountain mahogany above the house, singing
> vigorously, on May 29, 2001.
>
> This year's yard list has some new entries -- two nests. Since we had to
> take down all our bird feeders because they hold such interest to the pair
> of local bears, the traffic in the yard has diminished quite a bit: no more
> chickadees, jays, goldfinches, and the like. But the relative calm has led
> (maybe) to a pair of Cordilleran Flycatchers, now building a nest on a light
> fixture. Of course, it's right outside the door we use the most, and if on
> the nest, the bird flushes whenever we go near. I don't think the action of
> the dog door near it bothers the bird as much as we do. They haven't
> finished building the nest yet; we hope we don't upset them too much.
>
> On the other side of the house, 10 days ago, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers had a
> fit over some invisible threat. They scurried around fussing, and eventually
> one with a stick and one with a spruce needle in their respective bills.
> Finally, two days ago, I detected the nest, 8-10 feet up in the crotch of a
> scrub oak branch. With a mirror on a pole, Urling and I looked at it this
> morning; nothing in it so far, but the gnatcatchers continue to squeak from
> that oak and some other nearby ones.
>
> In the gully below the house a Red-eyed Vireo seems to have set up a
> territory. He tried our yard for a few minutes, two or three different days,
> but then settled down in the big old cottonwoods. That's a new bird for our
> yard, Number 134, I think.
>
> Hugh Kingery
> Franktown, CO
>
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-- 
Lisa Crispin
Co-author with Janet Gregory, Agile Testing
http://www.agiletester.ca
http://lisa.crispin.home.att.net
http://lisacrispin.blogspot.com
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