Correction re remarkable CO combos
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DAVID A LEATHERMAN
Oct 21, 2015, 12:07:50 PM10/21/15
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I meant to say Andy Bankert and friends saw the combo of ptarmigan and tricolored heron in the same day in CO. Sorry.
Dave
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Glenn Hageman
Oct 21, 2015, 4:41:51 PM10/21/15
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Speaking of combos, a good number of years ago, Jeane and I together with Al and Dee Hay saw a Brown Pelican and a Ptarmigan in the same day.
Glenn Hageman
Oct 21, 2015, 4:45:52 PM10/21/15
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me is Glenn Hageman
Duane Nelson
Oct 21, 2015, 7:42:12 PM10/21/15
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Birders,
I love this thread. But, I'd refine the parameters to unexpected combos of birds seen at the same locality on the same day. Better yet, unexpected birds seen together at the same time. Extra points for those that aren't chasing a mega-rarity, and combining it with a localized Colorado rarity on the same day. By those standards, any rare bird I would see, say at Tempel Grove or Lamar Community College on one of my work days would combine (in my opinion) with the two best birds on my Colorado list, Piping Plovers and Least Terns. This would give me countless spectacular combo days, and it doesn't seem fair. By my completely arbitrary scoring system, where points don't count, self-found combos get the highest score.
My first bizarre combo came in Colorado in 1990. I backpacked a short distance above the Silver Pick Mine in San Miguel County, staging for a climb of Wilson Peak the next day. At my timberline campsite, I had a mixed flock composed of White-tailed Ptarmigans and Northern Flickers. It blew my mind.
My Bent County yard presents more unexpected combos than any place I've ever been, since there are occasional mountain birds mixing with desert and canyon country birds, alongside eastern migrants and just plain out of place birds. For instance, today I had three species that have probably never been seen together within a 5 food diameter imaginary circle: Red-bellied Woodpecker, Canyon Towhee and Curve-billed Thrasher. None are super-rare in Colorado but all are species that would make the average person's birding day.
Probably the best combo I've ever had took place between last January and April. I had a female plumage Cassin's Finch and a female plumage Purple Finch winter in my yard, and I nailed a photograph of both birds standing on a tray feeder outside my family room window, facing each other. I don't think this has ever been documented photographically before, and certainly not in Colorado.
Other combos in my yard have included Steller's Jay with Red-bellied Woodpecker (photographed), and "red" Fox Sparrow with Eastern Towhee.
I'd be interested in your stories.
Duane Nelson
Las Animas, Bent County, CO
I love this thread. But, I'd refine the parameters to unexpected combos of birds seen at the same locality on the same day. Better yet, unexpected birds seen together at the same time. Extra points for those that aren't chasing a mega-rarity, and combining it with a localized Colorado rarity on the same day. By those standards, any rare bird I would see, say at Tempel Grove or Lamar Community College on one of my work days would combine (in my opinion) with the two best birds on my Colorado list, Piping Plovers and Least Terns. This would give me countless spectacular combo days, and it doesn't seem fair. By my completely arbitrary scoring system, where points don't count, self-found combos get the highest score.
My first bizarre combo came in Colorado in 1990. I backpacked a short distance above the Silver Pick Mine in San Miguel County, staging for a climb of Wilson Peak the next day. At my timberline campsite, I had a mixed flock composed of White-tailed Ptarmigans and Northern Flickers. It blew my mind.
My Bent County yard presents more unexpected combos than any place I've ever been, since there are occasional mountain birds mixing with desert and canyon country birds, alongside eastern migrants and just plain out of place birds. For instance, today I had three species that have probably never been seen together within a 5 food diameter imaginary circle: Red-bellied Woodpecker, Canyon Towhee and Curve-billed Thrasher. None are super-rare in Colorado but all are species that would make the average person's birding day.
Probably the best combo I've ever had took place between last January and April. I had a female plumage Cassin's Finch and a female plumage Purple Finch winter in my yard, and I nailed a photograph of both birds standing on a tray feeder outside my family room window, facing each other. I don't think this has ever been documented photographically before, and certainly not in Colorado.
Other combos in my yard have included Steller's Jay with Red-bellied Woodpecker (photographed), and "red" Fox Sparrow with Eastern Towhee.
I'd be interested in your stories.
Duane Nelson
Las Animas, Bent County, CO
On 10/21/2015 10:07 AM, DAVID A LEATHERMAN wrote:
I meant to say Andy Bankert and friends saw the combo of ptarmigan and tricolored heron in the same day in CO. Sorry.
Dave
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Todd Deininger
Oct 21, 2015, 9:14:19 PM10/21/15
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On the morning 10/12 7 of us from Boulder saw 50 Greater Prairie Chickens and the Tri-colored Heron at Walden.
My last CO Tri-colored in 2006(?) was at Lower Latham and later saw the Piping Plover at Clover Basin in Boulder, Co.
Todd Deininger
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