Ted Floyd talking Colorado Birds at the Tattered Cover, Colfax Ave, Tues 9/9 7 p.m. and in Steamboat Springs 9/14

[Jeffrey Gordon]

Hello, CO-Birders,

Greetings from flat, humid, and utterly Baird's Sparrowless Delaware,

Seriously, the recent spate of Baird's Sparrows discovered in Colorado has been fascinating to watch and painful to not be able to participate in. Major congratulations on all of it and I can't wait to see if the phenomenon repeats next year (or expands to include discovery of CO-breeding BAIS, as Steven Mlodinow hinted in an email here yesterday).

On to my principal reason for writing. Ted Floyd, Editor of the ABA's Birding magazine, will have a "lecture" and book signing at the Tattered Cover, Colfax Avenue store, tomorrow, Tuesday, Sept. 9th, at 7:00 p.m. As to the lecture, it will be more of a discussion and conversation about our favorite Colorado birds. Details are here:

http://www.tatteredcover.com/event/ted-floyd-aba-field-guide-birds-colorado-colfax-avenue

If you can't make it to Denver on Tuesday, Ted will be out in Steamboat Springs on Sunday, Sept. 14th, for a 2pm "lecture" (call it a conversation) at the Bud Werner Memorial Library, right downtown:

http://coloradocranes.net/yampa-valley-crane-festival/detailed-schedule/

Events like these are a great opportunity to help recruit new birders and make them aware of organizations like CFO and local clubs. Come on out and fly the flag for birding!

All best,

Jeff

Jeffrey Gordon
President
American Birding Association
Delaware City, DE
jgo...@aba.org
www.aba.org

800-850-2473 office
302-388-4444 cell

[Ted Floyd]

Hi, everybody. One more thing about this Tattered Cover event. I didn't realize until today how close to City Park the Colfax Ave. branch of the Tattered Cover is. So I'll be doing a lite, casual, fun, bring-your-own-dinner bird walk in the hour before the event. Meet at 5:45 p.m. on the west side of The Lake. It's officially known as "Ferril Lake," but probably nobody, not even Joe Roller, knows that.

More details here:

http://www.tatteredcover.com/event/ted-floyd-aba-field-guide-birds-colorado-colfax-avenue

The site says we'll look for herons, egrets, and cormorants, and we will. In particular, we'll look for Joe Roller's disembodied head of a night-heron, or whatever it was. Sounds freaky.

See you tomorrow!

All best, --Ted Floyd

P.s. While waiting at 6am this overcast Monday morning in the parking lot of the studios of Clear Channel Communications (ask me about THAT!) in South Denver, I heard various sparrows and even a Red-breasted Nuthatch wrapping up nocturnal migration. Big city, bright lights, clouds = audible nocturnal migration.