Denver has two new eBird hotspots - Coors Field and Sports Authority Field at Mile High (restricted access)

[Joe Roller]

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

[Ted Floyd]

Brilliant, Joe. My Coors Field eBird list:

1	Mallard	1	Coors Field	US-CO	24-Jul-07
2	Rock Pigeon	5	Coors Field	US-CO	24-Jul-07
3	Mourning Dove	4	Coors Field	US-CO	24-Jul-07
4	Western Kingbird	3	Coors Field	US-CO	24-Jul-07
5	Cliff Swallow	3	Coors Field	US-CO	24-Jul-07
6	House Finch	4	Coors Field	US-CO	24-Jul-07
7	House Sparrow	1	Coors Field	US-CO	24-Jul-07
8	Black-crowned Night-Heron	1	Coors Field	US-CO	17-Jul-08
9	American Robin	1	Coors Field	US-CO	27-Jun-09
10	Eurasian Collared-Dove	1	Coors Field	US-CO	19-Aug-12
11	American Crow	1	Coors Field	US-CO	19-Aug-12
12	European Starling	3	Coors Field	US-CO	19-Aug-12
13	Double-crested Cormorant	1	Coors Field	US-CO	11-Aug-13
14	Red-tailed Hawk	3	Coors Field	US-CO	11-Aug-13
15	Common Grackle	32	Coors Field	US-CO	11-Aug-13

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County

[Ira Sanders]

I add Burrowing Owl 5/5/95 at Coor's Field (catching bugs in the lights) as well as Kestrel and family later that year.

Ira

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Ira Sanders

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[steven...@comcast.net]

Hi All,

I've only had Orioles, Cardinals and Blue Jays.

Steve Larson

Northglenn CO

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[Alec Hopping]

I'll throw on my contribution: a lone COMMON POORWILL (!) that flew into the ballpark on 5/16/13.

Sure made up for the Rockies' loss!

Alec Hopping

Littleton CO

[Ted Floyd]

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:

[David Wade]

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

[Karl Stecher Jr.]

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

 

Karl Stecher

Centennial

 

 

 

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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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[Ted Floyd]

Here's more on eBirding at Coors Field:

http://blog.aba.org/2015/08/ebird-and-mlb-a-match-made-at-wrigley.html

:-)

By the way, I listened a bit overnight for nocturnal migrants over Lafayette, eastern Boulder County, after the rains had passed earlier this Wednesday morning, Aug. 19. Not much going on, but there was a light flight of those short, sharp, clipped, piercing, rising flight calls that I take to be those of the Brewer sparrow.

Ted Floyd

Lafayette, Boulder County

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