Great thread! I'm new to the list and am the fortunate one to have spotted and reported the Brambling in my backyard in Colorado Springs. I am becoming more and more of a serious birder, but not to the extent of this impressive group!
How long: 10-15 years Style: casual to dedicated How Many: *64* (but many more that I haven't identified) Location: suburban, but large natural yard. Rarest/favorites: Brambling, Northern Cardinal, love the Evening Grosbeaks and Bushtits Dave Resch Colorado Springs, El Paso County On Sun, Mar 17, 2024, 7:26 AM Gregg Goodrich <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas > > Great thread! Thanks for starting it. So fun to read about the birds seen > from everyone’s yards. No new species for the list, but here are my > highlights. > > How long: 8 years > > Style: At least one eBird list everyday we are home. > > Number: 100 species > > Rarest: Lewis’s Woodpecker, Spotted Sandpiper in creek, Cassin’s > Kingbird, Rose-breasted Grosbeak > > Memorable: Bohemian Waxwings. After seeing them in several locations > around the metro area the first of last year, they finally made it to our > yard. I had six sightings from the yard between January 27, 2023 and > February 7, 2023. The largest count was around 250. On a walk at the end of > the block I had a yard with over 800. > > Like Duane, I have had fun birds while shoveling the snow. Sandhill > Cranes, Snow Geese and Peregrine Falcon flyovers. > > Location: Our Highlands Ranch home’s back deck faces a riparian open space > with a small creek. 5820’ > > Gregg Goodrich > Highlands Ranch in Douglas County > > On Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 10:17:47 AM UTC-6 Diana Beatty wrote: > >> For people who are in to yard listing and/or citizen science, you might >> be interested in a new gadget. >> >> I recently bought a haikubox. This is a box you plug in to an external >> outlet at your home and it constantly listens for birds and uses your wifi. >> You use an app or website to see what it hears. It records short intervals >> and you can listen and verify accuracy . It keeps ongoing data you can >> download or track online. It shares the data with Cornell Labs and the >> haikubox network. >> >> Diana Beatty >> El Paso County >> >> On Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 9:23 AM 'Norm Lewis' via Colorado Birds < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> PPS- I should have read the directions a little morel closely- I would >>> say I fall into the obsessed category- I keep 10-15 feeders active, >>> depending upon the season, and have a semi-wild area on my back hill, as I >>> live in a little valley and the upper back yard areas on the street are not >>> developed, which gives me about an eighth of an acre of mixed trees and >>> brush. >>> >>> Whew. I think that's all! >>> >>> Norm >>> >>> On Saturday, March 16, 2024 at 08:33:54 AM MDT, Thomas Heinrich < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi all, >>> Another quick update on the lists. In addition to the 350 species on >>> Google list that Bryan has set up, I have another 26 species from birders >>> who have sent lists directly to me. >>> >>> So the current total # of species: *376* >>> >>> Getting close to 400! >>> >>> I hope to have the list I'm compiling wrapped up this weekend and off to >>> Bryan to merge with his Google sheet. The list will include names and >>> counties. Please let me know if you would prefer to remain anonymous. Also, >>> if there is a particular species (or couple of species) that you ticked off >>> on Bryan's list that you would like to have your name next to on the new >>> list, please let me know. I'll be attempting to include all who have >>> contributed to the list in an equitable way. >>> >>> Thanks again to all who have shared and contributed, >>> >>> Thomas >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 10:40 AM Thomas Heinrich <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Every now and then one of us will share the excitement of adding a >>> rarity or new species to a yard list, report yard list totals, or comment >>> on local trends. And some of the lists, and variety of species, are really >>> impressive (e.g. David Suddjian's, Gary Lefko's). >>> >>> Yellow Grosbeak, Pyrrhuloxia, Streak-backed Oriole, Long-billed >>> Thrasher, Costa's Hummingbird, Laurence's Goldfinch, and even Anhinga come >>> to mind as rarities that have shown up in or been observed from >>> yards. (Perhaps the recent Brambling, too?) >>> >>> As a pretty obsessive yard lister (i.e. binocs always on, camera ready >>> when outdoors, much of the time indoors too), I often wonder about others' >>> experience with yard-listing. >>> >>> How long have you been keeping your list? >>> What's your style of yard listing: casual, mainly feeder watching, >>> moderate, dedicated, obsessed? >>> How many species? >>> Rarest, or favorite species? >>> Most memorable experience? >>> Location/habitat: urban, suburban, rural, etc? >>> >>> And the big question: if we tallied up all our yard lists, how close to >>> Colorado's 520 species could we get? >>> >>> It seems likely that certain families would be less well-represented; >>> shorebirds, waterfowl, and gulls, for example. But with neighborhoods >>> lining bodies of water such as Boyd Lake, Lake Loveland, Marston Reservoir, >>> Jackson Lake, and MacIntosh Lake (in Boulder), among many others, many of >>> those species theoretically could have been counted on a yard list. 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