Kestrel falcon, Lakewood
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Deborah Carstensen
Nov 4, 2015, 10:05:02 PM11/4/15
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I was preparing to go into the Bed ,Bath and Beyond store on Bowles just east of Wadsworth when I looked up to see a kestrel flying up to a hole in the façade of the building where the sign is. There is a round hole, approximately 2 to 3 inches in diameter up and to the left of the main sign for the store. He looked in the hole for a little bit, went in, and didn't come back out for as long as I watched (which, admittedly, wasn't very long).
A retail roosting box? It was just before dusk…
Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe County
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A retail roosting box? It was just before dusk…
Deb Carstensen, Littleton, Arapahoe County
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Todd Deininger
Nov 4, 2015, 11:33:53 PM11/4/15
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When I used to work in north Denver, the apartment building next to the school had a pair of American Kestrels nesting in the roof. They would enter through a small crack.
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Todd Deininger
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Deborah Carstensen
Nov 4, 2015, 11:41:01 PM11/4/15
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Do they use the same the same place or find another place to roost? I'm not clear on which birds roost inside a shelter as opposed to sleeping out on the limb.
Deb Carstensen, Littleton Arapahoe county
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Mary Geder
Nov 5, 2015, 12:17:10 AM11/5/15
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From: Mary Geder <mfg...@live.com>
Date: November 4, 2015 at 10:10:57 PM MST
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Subject: RE: [cobirds] Kestrel falcon, Lakewood
This brings up a topic that has long interested me, perhaps a counterpart to 'what do birds eat?", that is, where do birds sleep? I have not investigated this in any meaningful or thorough way yet. But have only anecdotal evidence of some interesting roosts. So far, my favorite is the Carolina Wren that roosts in the folds of a collapsed patio umbrella at my cousin's house in Virginia. After the bird has settled in there, you can gently open the fold of the umbrella and peak in at the bird. Facing inward and acting comatose, he/she operates under the theory thatif he/she can't see it, then it can't see him/her. I'd be interested to hear of other unique resting/roosting spots.Mary GederLakewood, Jefferson Co
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Ira Sanders
Nov 5, 2015, 12:37:10 AM11/5/15
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In Trinidad at the Asa Wright Nature Center, blue-gray tanagers roost inside the veranda at night before they close the windows and leave in the morning when they open them.
Ira Sanders
Skokie, IL
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DAVID A LEATHERMAN
Nov 5, 2015, 1:02:57 AM11/5/15
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Mary et al,
A few years ago I was told Kevin Cook along the Poudre River in Fort Collins in early winter discovered multiple stub-tailed wrens (not sure whether they were Winter or Pacific but I know Nathan Pipelow confirmed by call a bird in this same exact area as a Winter) going into a Bullock's Oriole nest at dusk! The oriole nest was 20 feet over snowberry/river bank forest floor where the birds spent their day.
During the White-winged Crossbill nesting episode at Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins in the spring of 2010, I watched the male go to sleep in a Colorado Blue Spruce out along the Fairway #4 of nearby City Park Nine golf course. This tree was about 75 yards southwest of the Colorado Blue Spruce nest tree where the female was presumably spending the night brooding nestlings. I had followed the male into the aforementioned tree and actually had it in my scope when it settled and then closed its eyes. In the dim light I could see its mandibles moving, as people move their lips when talking in their sleep or having a bad dream. Wondering about this, I checked Craig Benkman's BNA account and it states crossbills are known to pull up spruce seeds stored in their crop for supplemental nourishment during the night. I think that's what I saw.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
Subject: Fwd: [cobirds] Kestrel falcon, Lakewood
From: mfg...@live.com
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 22:17:02 -0700
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A few years ago I was told Kevin Cook along the Poudre River in Fort Collins in early winter discovered multiple stub-tailed wrens (not sure whether they were Winter or Pacific but I know Nathan Pipelow confirmed by call a bird in this same exact area as a Winter) going into a Bullock's Oriole nest at dusk! The oriole nest was 20 feet over snowberry/river bank forest floor where the birds spent their day.
During the White-winged Crossbill nesting episode at Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins in the spring of 2010, I watched the male go to sleep in a Colorado Blue Spruce out along the Fairway #4 of nearby City Park Nine golf course. This tree was about 75 yards southwest of the Colorado Blue Spruce nest tree where the female was presumably spending the night brooding nestlings. I had followed the male into the aforementioned tree and actually had it in my scope when it settled and then closed its eyes. In the dim light I could see its mandibles moving, as people move their lips when talking in their sleep or having a bad dream. Wondering about this, I checked Craig Benkman's BNA account and it states crossbills are known to pull up spruce seeds stored in their crop for supplemental nourishment during the night. I think that's what I saw.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
Subject: Fwd: [cobirds] Kestrel falcon, Lakewood
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DAVID A LEATHERMAN
Nov 5, 2015, 1:03:06 AM11/5/15
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Mary et al,
A few years ago I was told Kevin Cook along the Poudre River in Fort Collins in early winter discovered multiple stub-tailed wrens (not sure whether they were Winter or Pacific but I know Nathan Pipelow confirmed by call a bird in this same exact area as a Winter) going into a Bullock's Oriole nest at dusk! The oriole nest was 20 feet over snowberry/river bank forest floor where the birds spent their day.
During the White-winged Crossbill nesting episode at Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins in the spring of 2010, I watched the male go to sleep in a Colorado Blue Spruce out along the Fairway #4 of nearby City Park Nine golf course. This tree was about 75 yards southwest of the Colorado Blue Spruce nest tree where the female was presumably spending the night brooding nestlings. I had followed the male into the aforementioned tree and actually had it in my scope when it settled and then closed its eyes. In the dim light I could see its mandibles moving, as people move their lips when talking in their sleep or having a bad dream. Wondering about this, I checked Craig Benkman's BNA account and it states crossbills are known to pull up spruce seeds stored in their crop for supplemental nourishment during the night. I think that's what I saw.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
A few years ago I was told Kevin Cook along the Poudre River in Fort Collins in early winter discovered multiple stub-tailed wrens (not sure whether they were Winter or Pacific but I know Nathan Pipelow confirmed by call a bird in this same exact area as a Winter) going into a Bullock's Oriole nest at dusk! The oriole nest was 20 feet over snowberry/river bank forest floor where the birds spent their day.
During the White-winged Crossbill nesting episode at Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins in the spring of 2010, I watched the male go to sleep in a Colorado Blue Spruce out along the Fairway #4 of nearby City Park Nine golf course. This tree was about 75 yards southwest of the Colorado Blue Spruce nest tree where the female was presumably spending the night brooding nestlings. I had followed the male into the aforementioned tree and actually had it in my scope when it settled and then closed its eyes. In the dim light I could see its mandibles moving, as people move their lips when talking in their sleep or having a bad dream. Wondering about this, I checked Craig Benkman's BNA account and it states crossbills are known to pull up spruce seeds stored in their crop for supplemental nourishment during the night. I think that's what I saw.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
Subject: Fwd: [cobirds] Kestrel falcon, Lakewood
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DAVID A LEATHERMAN
Nov 5, 2015, 1:03:25 AM11/5/15
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Mary et al,
A few years ago I was told Kevin Cook along the Poudre River in Fort Collins in early winter discovered multiple stub-tailed wrens (not sure whether they were Winter or Pacific but I know Nathan Pipelow confirmed by call a bird in this same exact area as a Winter) going into a Bullock's Oriole nest at dusk! The oriole nest was 20 feet over snowberry/river bank forest floor where the birds spent their day.
During the White-winged Crossbill nesting episode at Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins in the spring of 2010, I watched the male go to sleep in a Colorado Blue Spruce out along the Fairway #4 of nearby City Park Nine golf course. This tree was about 75 yards southwest of the Colorado Blue Spruce nest tree where the female was presumably spending the night brooding nestlings. I had followed the male into the aforementioned tree and actually had it in my scope when it settled and then closed its eyes. In the dim light I could see its mandibles moving, as people move their lips when talking in their sleep or having a bad dream. Wondering about this, I checked Craig Benkman's BNA account and it states crossbills are known to pull up spruce seeds stored in their crop for supplemental nourishment during the night. I think that's what I saw.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
A few years ago I was told Kevin Cook along the Poudre River in Fort Collins in early winter discovered multiple stub-tailed wrens (not sure whether they were Winter or Pacific but I know Nathan Pipelow confirmed by call a bird in this same exact area as a Winter) going into a Bullock's Oriole nest at dusk! The oriole nest was 20 feet over snowberry/river bank forest floor where the birds spent their day.
During the White-winged Crossbill nesting episode at Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins in the spring of 2010, I watched the male go to sleep in a Colorado Blue Spruce out along the Fairway #4 of nearby City Park Nine golf course. This tree was about 75 yards southwest of the Colorado Blue Spruce nest tree where the female was presumably spending the night brooding nestlings. I had followed the male into the aforementioned tree and actually had it in my scope when it settled and then closed its eyes. In the dim light I could see its mandibles moving, as people move their lips when talking in their sleep or having a bad dream. Wondering about this, I checked Craig Benkman's BNA account and it states crossbills are known to pull up spruce seeds stored in their crop for supplemental nourishment during the night. I think that's what I saw.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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DAVID A LEATHERMAN
Nov 5, 2015, 1:04:30 AM11/5/15
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Mary et al,
A few years ago I was told Kevin Cook along the Poudre River in Fort Collins in early winter discovered multiple stub-tailed wrens (not sure whether they were Winter or Pacific but I know Nathan Pipelow confirmed by call a bird in this same exact area as a Winter) going into a Bullock's Oriole nest at dusk! The oriole nest was 20 feet over snowberry/river bank forest floor where the birds spent their day.
During the White-winged Crossbill nesting episode at Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins in the spring of 2010, I watched the male go to sleep in a Colorado Blue Spruce out along the Fairway #4 of nearby City Park Nine golf course. This tree was about 75 yards southwest of the Colorado Blue Spruce nest tree where the female was presumably spending the night brooding nestlings. I had followed the male into the aforementioned tree and actually had it in my scope when it settled and then closed its eyes. In the dim light I could see its mandibles moving, as people move their lips when talking in their sleep or having a bad dream. Wondering about this, I checked Craig Benkman's BNA account and it states crossbills are known to pull up spruce seeds stored in their crop for supplemental nourishment during the night. I think that's what I saw.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
A few years ago I was told Kevin Cook along the Poudre River in Fort Collins in early winter discovered multiple stub-tailed wrens (not sure whether they were Winter or Pacific but I know Nathan Pipelow confirmed by call a bird in this same exact area as a Winter) going into a Bullock's Oriole nest at dusk! The oriole nest was 20 feet over snowberry/river bank forest floor where the birds spent their day.
During the White-winged Crossbill nesting episode at Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins in the spring of 2010, I watched the male go to sleep in a Colorado Blue Spruce out along the Fairway #4 of nearby City Park Nine golf course. This tree was about 75 yards southwest of the Colorado Blue Spruce nest tree where the female was presumably spending the night brooding nestlings. I had followed the male into the aforementioned tree and actually had it in my scope when it settled and then closed its eyes. In the dim light I could see its mandibles moving, as people move their lips when talking in their sleep or having a bad dream. Wondering about this, I checked Craig Benkman's BNA account and it states crossbills are known to pull up spruce seeds stored in their crop for supplemental nourishment during the night. I think that's what I saw.
Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins
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Diana Beatty
Nov 5, 2015, 7:52:55 AM11/5/15
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This time of year many of the crows in Colorado Springs seem to gather in large groups and fly in and out of some congregational roosting spot west of town somewhere. People see them flying east in the early morning and west in evening. And there seem to be some smaller groups that may have their own spots in town. I've wondered where they roost and if it is something where people could potentially see a large group of roosting birds together in a single photographable shot or something...
Diana Beatty
El Paso County
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mar...@juno.com
Nov 5, 2015, 7:56:45 AM11/5/15
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mar...@juno.com
Nov 5, 2015, 8:14:27 AM11/5/15
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Oops, sorry about the previous post. Still learning to use this phone which is way smarter than I am. Sigh.
Interesting thread, and one of the reasons I enjoy CoBirds, although I don't post much.
I've been thinking about the White-throated Swifts I have been watching and that Brandon posted about (thanks Brandon!), and wondering where they roost at night since there are so many. There are crevices in the cliff faces, which seems like the obvious place. But there are also many Cliff Swallow nests, and I wonder if they roost in those. I do see them visiting these nest sites during the day, flying up to them from below and then quickly away, and am thinking they are feeding on insects in the nests. Dave Leatherman, what would they likely be finding there?
Margie Joy
Pueblo West, CO
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