Date: 13 January 2011 e-mail: [email protected] phone: 303-659-8750 compiler: Joyce Takamine
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 7 am sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message, you can skip the recording by pressing the star key (*) on you phone at any time. Please leave your name, phone number, detailed directions, including county and dates for each sighting. It would be helpful if you would spell your last name. Highlight species include: (* denotes that there is new information on the species in this report). TUNDRA SWAN (Boulder) Long-tailed Duck (*Adams) Barrow's Goldeneye (*Adams, Delta, Moffat) Dunlin (*Adams) MEW GULL (Boulder) Thayer's Gull (Boulder) Lesser Black-backed Gull (Boulder, Huerfano) White-winged Dove (Huerfano) INCA DOVE (Otero) Winter Wren (Douglas/Jefferson) PACIFIC WREN (Larimer) VARIED THRUSH (Boulder) Curve-billed Thrasher (*Jefferson) PINE WARBLER (El Paso) Fox Sparrow (Bent) Swamp Sparrow (Boulder, El Paso) White-throated Sparrow (Huerfano, *Jefferson) Harris's Sparrow (*Adams, El Paso, Huerfano, *Jefferson, Las Animas) GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW (Boulder,* Jefferson) Lapland Longspur (Bent) Northern Cardinal (Bent) Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (Huerfano, *Jefferson, Mesa, Routt) Black Rosy-Finch (Huerfano, *Jefferson, Mesa, Routt) Adams County: --Four Barrow's Goldeneyes (2m, 2f) were reported by Dunning near the green and white tank south of 88th and Platte River on January 7. --A Dunlin was found by Robinette about a 1/4 mile further south of the green and white tank on a sandbar on the east side of the river on January 7 and was seen again on January 12 by Chavez between the Duck Platform and the water tower. --A female Long-tailed Duck was reported by Hundertmark at the Thornton Water Pond on the west side of the Platte River south from 88th on January 9 and was seen on January 12 at the West Gravel Lake. --A Harris's Sparrow was reported by Roller at the Old Stone House at RMBO on January 11. Bent County: --A m Northern Cardinal and red Fox Sparrow were reported by Duane Nelson at the Purgatoire River Railroad Crossing 2 miles east of Las Animas on January 6. --Lapland Longspurs were reported by Duane Nelson at the feedlot at CR BB and 15 on January 5. Boulder County: --An ad TUNDRA SWAN was reported by Gent at the Valmont Power Plant on November 25 and was seen again by Floyd et al on January 8. --The imm GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW continues at the Juniper windbreak at the Teller Farm parking lot as reported by Severs on January 1 and was seen again on January 8 by Floyd. --Floyd reported the following on the Valmont field trip on January 8: ad MEW GULL, 3 ad Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 1 1st-cyc Thayer's Gull. --A Swamp Sparrow was reported by Floyd at Greenlee Preserve in Lafayette on January 9. --A VARIED THRUSH was reported on December 25 in Longmont and Todd Deininger relocated it on January 10. The area is south of MacIntosh Lake and south of 17th Ave. Park at Longmont Estates Elementary School and walk east on Northwestern and look for Robins. Delta County: --A pair of Barrow's Goldeneyes was reported by Dexter on the Gunnison River north of Confluence Park near Delta on January 7. Douglas/Jefferson Counties: --A Winter Wren was reported by Kellner on the Denver CBC on December 18 and was seen again on January 4 by Kilpatrick. El Paso County: --On January 8 on the Fountain Creek Winter Bird Count, Pals reported the following: Winter Wren, PINE WARBLER, Swamp Sparrow, and Harris's Sparrow. Huerfano County: --A Lesser Black-backed Gull was reported by Nelder at Lathrop State Park on January 9. --An imm Harris's Sparrow and 2 White-winged Doves continue to visit the Nelder Yard in La Veta as of January 9. Their address is 151 County Road 359. --All 3 species of Rosy-Finches and a White-throated Sparrow have returned to the yard of Beverly Jensen in La Veta on January 10 and on January 12 a White-winged Dove joined the Rosy-Finches. If you would like to try to see these birds, call her at 719-989-1398. Jefferson County: --On January 12, Chavez reported that the Harris's Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW, and Curve-billed Thrasher were seen by various birder and there are now 4 Black Rosy-Finches at Red Rocks Trading Post. Larimer County: --A possible PACIFIC WREN was reported by Mammoser by the Environmental Learning Center in Fort Collins on January 4. The stub-tailed wren was seen again on January 6 by Leatherman who reports that the wren is proving difficult to identify. If you assume that the thicket east across the bike trail from the ELC parking lot outhouse is the center of its range, then the wren wanders about 50 yards either direction along the river. Mesa County: --All 3 species of Rosy-Finches were reported by Dexter east of Gateway along the highway on January 6. Moffat County: --50+ Barrow's Goldeneyes were reported by Luke on the Yampa River at the south end of Craig on January 8. Otero County: --INCA DOVES were reported by Duane Nelson in Rocky Ford near Washington and Virginia Streets on January 6. Routt County: --All 3 species of Rosy-Finches were reported by Luke at the feeders of Glen and Joann Kelley north of Hayden on January 8. Please call ahead 970-276-3126 to arrange with the Kelleys to see the finches. The DFO field trip for Saturday, January 15 will be to 88th and the Platte River led by Buzz Schaumberg (303-699-1721). Meet at 0900 at parking lot at 88th and the Platte for 1/2 day trip. Lots of ducks on open water. Scope would be helpful. Lunch is optional. Sunday, January 16 -- no trip planned. 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