Compiler: Dick Schottler
Date: Report for Wednesday, May 15, 2013, updated at 8:45 P.M.
email: rba AT cfobirds.org <http://cfobirds.org/>
phone: 303-659-8750 <tel:303-659-8750>
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, May 15, 2013.
sponsored by the Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
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Highlight species include: (* denotes that there is new and often
accurate information on this
species in this report)
Glossy Ibis (Jefferson, *Weld)
Broad-winged Hawk (El Paso)
Black-bellied Plover (Weld)
Piping Plover (*Phillips)
Whimbrel (Weld)
Gray Flycatcher (Jefferson)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Washington)
Yellow-throated Vireo (Bent, Prowers)
Cassin's Vireo (Adams, Bent, Boulder, Jefferson, Prowers)
Philadelphia Vireo (Baca)
Veery (El Paso/Pueblo, *Weld)
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH (Baca, El Paso, El Paso/Pueblo, Weld)
Ovenbird (Baca, *El Paso/Pueblo)
Worm-eating Warbler (Prowers)
Northern Waterthrush (Baca, El Paso, *El Paso/Pueblo, Jefferson,
Larimer, Washington, Weld)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (*El Paso/Pueblo)
Blackpoll Warbler (Baca, Bent, El Paso, * Jefferson)
Black-and-White Warbler (Baca, Bent, Washington)
Tennessee Warbler (Adams, Baca, Jefferson, Larimer)
Nashville Warbler (Baca, Bent, *El Paso/Pueblo, Prowers)
Virginia's Warbler (Baca)
CAPE MAY WARBLER (Baca)
Northern Parula (Baca, El Paso, * El Paso/Pueblo)
BLACKBURNIAN (Bent, La Plata)
Black-throated Blue Warbler (Baca)
Yellow-throated Warbler (Baca)
Townsend's Warbler (*El Paso/Pueblo)
BLACK-THROATED GREEN (Baca, Boulder)
Palm Warbler (Baca, Bent, *El Paso/Pueblo, Jefferson, Larimer, Weld)
White-throated Sparrow (Douglas/Jefferson)
Summer Tanager (Baca, El Paso, Prowers)
Northern Cardinal (*Jefferson)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Baca, Bent, Prowers, *Weld)
Bobolink (Boulder, Denver)
*_ADAMS COUNTY: _*
On May13, Breitsch reports a Tennessee Warbler and Cassin's Vireo seen
at Barr Lake S.P..
*_BACA COUNTY:_*
On May 11, Walbek reports these birds from Two Buttes, seen May 10 and 11:
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Northern Parula
Ovenbird
Black-and-White Warbler
American Redstart
McGillivray's Warbler
Virginia's Warbler
Northern Waterthrush
Palm Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Philadelphia Vireo
Gray-cheeked Thrush
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Summer Tanager
Rufous-crowned Sparrow
*_BENT COUNTY:_*
--On May 10, Mlodinow reports these birds from Bent County:
Blackburnian Warbler at Karney SWA north of John Martin Reservoir along
Fort Lyons Canal,
Black-and-white Warbler at Van's Grove,
Western Palm Warbler at John Martin Reservoir,
Black-and-white Warbler at Hasty Lake Campground,
Blackpoll Warbler in the town of McClave,
Yellow-throated Vireo along Bent County Road 34 about 1/2 mile north of
CO 196,
Rose-breasted Grosbeak at Bent County Roads 35 and PP,
Gray-cheeked Thrush, 2 Nashville Warblers, a Cassin's Vireo, Dusky
Flycatcher, and 2 Common Poorwill at Melody Tempel Grove.
*_BOULDER COUNTY:_*
--On May 10, Chuck Hundertmark and Ted Floyd saw a Cassin's Vireo along
Boulder Creek, upstream a ways from the 75th Street Bridge.
--On May 12, Nunes reports a a singing male BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER
in the Ponderosa Pines at the corner of Tandra & East Moorhead Circle.
From Table Mesa, turn south on Tantra, & go down the street until you
reach the forced right hand turn onto E Moorhead. The pine trees are on
your right.
--On May15, Minner-Lee reports several Bobolinks seen in the vicinity of
the Open Space & Mt. Parks Cherryvale admin. bldg.
*_DENVER COUNTY:_*
--On May 11, Henwood reports a Bobolink in the SW corner of Marston
Reservoir.
*_DOUGLAS/JEFFERSON COUNTIES:_*
-On May 11, Kellner reported a White-throated Sparrow on the Chatfield
spring count.
*_--EL PASO/PUEBLO COUNTIES:_*
--On May 10, Brown reports thrushes of four species, Swainson's, Hermit,
and first of season Veery and Gray-cheeked Thrush at Chico Basin Ranch
(CBR). (fee area and worth it).
--On May 15, Percival reports the following warblers at CBR: Ovenbird,
No. Waterthrush, Chestnut-sided, Nashville, No. Parula, Townsend's, and
western Palm among others. Also seen were a White-throated Sparrow and
Bobolink.
_*--EL PASO COUNTY:*_
--On May 11, Pals reports these goodies among myriad species seen on the
Spring Count at Fountain Creek Park: Braod-winged Hawk, Gray-cheeked
Thrush, Blackpoll Warbler, Northern Waterthrush, Summer Tanager.
--On May 12, Kosar reports a Northern Parula at Fountain Creek.
*_JEFFERSON COUNTY:_*
--On May 11, the Gray Flycatcher reported by Chavez on May 8, continues
in Belmar Park, near the pond near the parking lot.
--On May 10, Schottler discovered several birds in the Wheat Ridge Green
Belt - a singing male Northern Cardinal at the Tree Bridge Trail, which
is roughly 100 yards WSW of the footbridge over
Clear Creek and near the wooden board walk. Also a Palm Warbler and a
Northern Waterthrush about 100 yards east of the footbridge over Clear
Creek. Seen again on May 13 by Baker.
--On May 11, Henwood reports these birds at Bear Creek Lake Park: adult
male Blackpoll Warbler at the Boat Launch area, Eastern Phoebe near Soda
Lakes,
Cassin's Vireo and Hammond Flycatcher in the Bear Creek Greenbelt along
Bear Creek east of the Stone House.
--On May 13, Henwood reports a Glossy Ibis at Bear Creek Lake Park, near
Pelican Point.
--On May 14, Hackos reports a Blackpoll Warbler at Belmar Park, Lakewood.
*_LA PLATA COUNTY:_*
On May 13, Beatty reports a Blackburnian Warbler in Durango, first found
by Morris on May 6 and still being seen near the Durango Public Library.
*_LARIMER COUNTY:_*
--On May 10, Birek reports a Northern Waterthrush banded at the Museum
of Discovery in Fort Collins. A Solitary Sandpiper was nearby.
--On May 11, Walters reports a Tennessee Warbler in Loveland, along the
Big Thompson River Walk, just east of the dam on the Wilson Avenue end
of the trail.
--On May 12, Matthews reports an "Eastern" Palm Warbler at Lake Estes.
*_PHILLIPS COUNTY:
_*--On May 15, Linfield reports a Piping Plover on a small pool between
CR 41 and the Holyoke airport.
*_PROWERS COUNTY:_*
--On May 11, Komar reports: 2 Summer Tanagers, Yellow-Throated Vireo,
and Cassin's Vireo, from LCCW.
--On May 13, Komar reports these birds from Lamar: Nashville Warbler at
the cemetery south of LCCW and Worm-eating Warbler at the High School grove.
*_WASHINGTON COUNTY:_*
--On May 10 Komar saw a Northern Waterthrush and a Black-and-white
Warbler at Last Chance Oasis.
--On May 10 Tammy and Ira Sanders discovered a Scissor tailed Flycatcher
west of highway marker 133 on highway 36. This is 3 miles west of Last
Chance rest area.
*_WELD COUNTY:_*
--On May 8, Mlodinow reports a Black-bellied Plover and 2 Whimbrels at
Union Reservoir. The Whimbrels were seen again by Erthal and Schottler
on May 13, with 6 Black-bellied Plovers.
--On May 11, Roller reports a "Western" Palm Warbler and a Northern
Waterthrush from Crow Valley Campground.
--On May 11, 3 Black-bellied Plovers were seen at Lower Latham.
--On May 11, several observers saw up to three Gray-cheeked Thrushes at
Crow Valley Campground.
--On May 14, Chavez reported a Veery and No. Waterthrush at Norma's Grove.
--On May 15, Leatherman reports 2 Glossy Ibis seen with White-faced Ibis
at Crom Lake (CR 31 1/2 mi s. of CR 90).
*_DFO FIELD TRIPS:_*
*for the weekend of May 18, 19,*
*Please consult the DFO website:
*http://dfobirders.org/wordpress/denver-field-ornithologists/field-trips-and-counts/scheduled-field-trips/may-2013-field-trips/ ,
for information on the field trips and the leaders to call.
Good Birding,
Dick Schottler
Unincorporated Jefferson County
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