Compiler: Dick Schottler
Date: Report for Saturday, May 18, 2013, updated at 8:30 AM
email: rba AT cobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Report for Saturday, May 18, 2013 at 0845
sponsored by the 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 your 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 (* indicates new information on this species
in this report):
Neotropic Cormorant (*Weld)
Glossy Ibis (Jefferson, Weld)
Black-bellied Plover (Weld)
Piping Plover (Phillips)
Whimbrel (*Weld)
Cassin's Vireo (Adams)
Gray-cheeked Thrush (*El Paso/Pueblo)
Veery (Weld)
Ovenbird (*El Paso/Pueblo)
Worm-eating Warbler (Prowers)
Northern Waterthrush (El Paso/Pueblo, Jefferson, Weld)
Blue-winged Warbler (*El Paso/Pueblo)
Black & white Warbler (*El Paso/Pueblo)
BAY-BREASTED WARBLER (*Bent)
Chestnut sided-Warbler (El Paso/Pueblo, *Washington)
Blackpoll Warbler (Jefferson)
Tennessee Warbler (Adams)
Nashville Warbler (El Paso/Pueblo, Prowers)
Northern Parula (El Paso, El Paso/Pueblo)
Blackburnian Warbler (La Plata)
Townsend's Warbler (El Paso/Pueblo)
Black-throated Green Warbler (Boulder)
Palm Warbler (El Paso/Pueblo, Larimer)
Northern Cardinal (*Jefferson)
Bobolink (Boulder)
_*ADAMS COUNTY:*_
--On May13, Breitsch reports a Tennessee Warbler and Cassin's Vireo seen
at Barr Lake S.P..
*_BENT COUNTY:_*
--On May 16 Nelson reports a female BAY-BREASTED WARBLER at Van's Grove.
*_BOULDER COUNTY:_*
--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.
*_--EL PASO/PUEBLO COUNTIES:_*
--On May 15, Percival reports the following warblers at Chico Basin
Ranch (hereafter CBR) (fee area): Ovenbird, No. Waterthrush,
Chestnut-sided, Nashville, No. Parula, Townsend's, and western Palm
among others. Also seen were a White-throated Sparrow and Bobolink.
--On May 16, Walbek reports a Blue-winged Warbler seen near the banding
station at CBR.
--On May 16 Brown reports the following among birds banded at CBR: 2
Ovenbirds, 2 Black-and-white Warblers, and a Gray-cheeked Thrush. A male
Black-and-white Warbler was banded on the 17th.
_*--EL PASO COUNTY:*_
--On May 12, Kosar reports a Northern Parula at Fountain Creek.
*_JEFFERSON COUNTY:_*
--On May 16, Schottler reports that the singing male Northern Cardinal,
first reported on May 10 along the Tree Bridge Trail south of Clear
Creek in the Wheatridge Greenbelt, was still present. The trail starts
roughly 50 yards W of the footbridge over Clear Creek at Prospect Park.
--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 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 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 17, Kellner's group reported male Chestnut-sided Warblers at
the Washington County Golf Course Park in Akron and at Last Chance.
*_WELD COUNTY:_*
--On May 13 Erthal reported 6 Black-bellied Plovers and 2 Whimbrel seen
along CR 48 south of Lower Latham Reservoir. One Whimbrel was still
present on May 16.
--On May 14, Chavez reported a Veery and Northern Waterthrush at Norma's
Grove.
--On May 15, Leatherman reported 2 Glossy Ibis seen with White-faced
Ibis at Crom Lake (CR 31 1/2 mi s. of CR 90).
--On May 16, Mlodinow reports that a Neotropic Cormorant was seen along
the entrance road to St. Vrain State Park.
*_DFO FIELD TRIPS:_*
--The DFO field trip for Sunday, May 19 is to Roxborough State Park. The
leader is Doris Cruze (303-798-8072). Meet the leader at 0800 at the
Park visitor center. Parks Pass is required.*
*
*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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