Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date: April 29, 2017
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, April 29 sponsored by Denver
Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species)
NOTE: The RBA is now using the new AOU checklist and the order of families
has changes.
Mute Swan (Weld)
Trumpeter Swan (*Archuleta, *Routt)
Mallard (Mexican intergrade) (Boulder)
Surf Scoter (*Jackkson)
Barrow’s Goldeneye (Montrose)
Sharp-tailed Grouse (*Weld)
Greater Prairie-Chicken (Washington)
White-winged Dove (Cheyenne)
Chimney Swift ( *Boulder, *El Paso)
Black Rail (Bent)
Black-bellied Plover (Crowley , Kiowa)
Snowy Plover (Crowley, *Kiowa)
Semipalmated Plover (Crowley, El Paso, *Kiowa, La Plata, *Weld)
Upland Sandpiper (Logan)
Whimbrel (El Paso, Morgan Pueblo, *Weld)
Long-billed Curlew (Archuleta, Jefferson, La Plata, Larimer)
Stilt Sandpiper (*Kiowa)
Sanderling (*El Paso, Kiowa, *Mesa, *Weld)
White-rumped Sandpiper (Morgan)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Crowley)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Crowley, *El Paso, Kiowa, La Plata, Morgan, Weld)
Short-billed Dowitcher (*El Paso, Morgan, Weld)
Solitary Sandpiper (*Boulder, Jefferson, Weld)
BROWN PELICAN (*Mesa)
Green Heron (Jefferson, Larimer, Pueblo)
Glossy Ibis (Mesa, Weld)
Mississippi Kite (Denver)
Broad-winged Hawk (Bent, Douglas, Jefferson)
Laughing Gull (Weld)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larimer)
Caspian Tern (Larimer,*Mesa, Morgan, *Weld)
Red-headed Woodpecker (Logan)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Logan)
Williamson’s Sapsucker (Pueblo)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (El Paso)
American three-toed Woodpecker (Gunnison)
Least Flycatcher (Douglas, *Jefferson)
Gray Flycatcher (El Paso, *Larimer, Mesa, Rio Grande)
Black Phoebe (Boulder, Conejos, Pueblo, Rio Blanco)
Eastern Phoebe (*Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas, Jefferson)
Winter Wren (Bent)
Caroline Wren (Pueblo)
BLACK-TAILED GNATCATCHER (Mesa)
Curve-billed Thrasher (Bent)
Lapland Longspur (Jackson, Weld)
Chestnut-collared Longspur (*Weld)
McCown’s Longspur (Douglas)
Worm-eating Warbler (*Bent)
Black-and-white Warbler (*Boulder)
Nashville Warbler (Denver, El Paso, Jefferson)
Northern Parula (*Arapahoe, *Boulder)
Palm Warbler (*Jefferson)
Yellow-throated Warbler (*Pueblo)
Black-throated Gray Warbler (*Boulder, Jefferson)
Cassin’s Sparrow (Washington)
Brewer’s Sparrow (Boulder)
Grasshopper Sparrow (Washington, *Weld)
Fox Sparrow (*Boulder)
Northern Cardinal (Logan)
ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On April 26 at Cherry Creek SP East Boat Ramp, a Northern Parula was
reported by Rebecca Laroche, Cheri Phillips, Cheryl Teuton and Dan Brooke.
On April 27 at Cherry Creek SP East Boat Ramp, Cynthia Madsen, Karen
Drozda, Loch Kilpatrick, and Benn Sampson reported Northern Parula. On
April 28 at Cherry Creek SP East Boat Ramp, Northern Parula was reported by
Meg Reck and many other birders and Ajit and Liza Anthony reported Eastern
Phoebe.
ARCHULETA COUNTY:
---On April 23 in Dunnagan Reservoir Area, Charles Martinez and Jean
Zirhlet reported Long-billed Curlew.
---On April 28 at Pagosa Lake, Brook Nelson reported Trumpeter Swan.
BENT COUNTY:
---On April 25 at Tempel Grove on CR 35, Dave Leatherman reported 2
Broad-winged Hawks (1 a, 1imm).
---On April 26 at Fort Lyon, Weston Smith reported 2 Black rail, 3
Curve-billed Thrashers, and Winter Wren.
---On April 27 and April 28 at Tempel Grove, Duane Nelson reported
Worm-eating Warbler.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On April 23, Carmencita and Dean Shoup, Matt Hofeditz, and Earl Johnson
reported Black and Eastern Phoebe at Boulder Creek and 75th St. On April
25 at Boulder Creek and 75th St, Mike Hensley and Rebecca Grieser reported
Black and Eastern Phoebe. On April 26 Randy Siebert reported Black and
Eastern Phoebe at Boulder Creek and 75th St. On April 27 at Boulder Creek
at 75th St, Mike Patterson reported Black and Eastern Phoebe.
---On April 24 at Hecla Lake in Lafayette, Ted Floyd reported Mallard
(Mexican intergrade).
---On April 27 at Walden/Sawhill Ponds in Boulder, Luke Pheneger and Nick
Moore reported 3 Solitary Sandpipers, Eastern Phoebe. On April 27 at
Walden Ponds, Luke Pheneger reported Solitary Sandpiper, Northern Parula,
Slate-colored Fox Sparrow and f Black-and-white Warbler.
---On April 28 at CU East Campus, Peter Gent reported 2 Black-throated Gray
Warblers at Skunk Creek and Chimney Swift.
CHEYENNE COUNTY:
---On April 23 in Kit Carson on US 287 east of Forest St, Clinton Neinhaus
reported White-winged Dove.
CONEJOS COUNTY:
---On April 23 at Sanford on Rio San Antonio, Doug Kibbe, Jeff Dawson, and
Mackenzie Goldthwait reported Black Phoebe.
DENVER COUNTY:
---On April 26, Chris Goulart reported a pair of Mississippi Kites at end
of Delgany by Cherry Creek.
---On April 27 at Rocky Mountain Lake Park, Gabriel Wiltse reported
Nashville Warbler.
DOUGLAS COUNTY:
---On April 23 at Chatfield SP Model Airplane Field, Chris Wood and Jessie
Barry reported McCown’s Longspur. On April 24 at Chatfield SP Model
Airplane Field, David Suddjian reported McCown’s Longspur.
---On April 27 at Chatfield SP downstream of Kingfisher Bridge, Loch
Kilpatrick reported Broad-winged Hawk and Least Flycatcher.
EL PASO COUNTY:
--- On April 26 at Ramah SWA, Cindy Bouldin reported Sanderling and David
Tonnessen, Joy and Leonard Lake reported Semipalmated Plover, Whimbrel, and
Sanderling. On April 28 at Ramah SWA, Karen Goetz and Matt Clark reported
Sandering, Semipalmated Sandpiper, and 2 Short-billed Dowitchers.
---On April 24 at Paint Mine OS, Rod Schmidt reported Black-throated
Sparrow.
---On April 24, Chris Goulart reported Ladder-backed Woodpecker at Chico
Basin Ranch.
---On April 23 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown banded imm Gray
Flycatcher.
---On April 26 at Sondermann Park, Linda Hodge reported Nashville Warbler
after first bridge.
---On April 26 at Memorial Park and Prospect Lake, Dale Adams reported 6
Chimney Swift. On April 27, 2 Chimney Swifts were reported by David and
Cheryl Hubbard at Memorial Park and Prospect Lake. On April 28 at Memorial
Park and Prospect Lake, Dale Adams reported Chimney Swift.
JACKSON COUNTY:
---On April 28 at Walden Reservoir, Christian Nunes reported young male
Surf Scoter.
JEFFERSON COUNTY:
---On April 23, Mike Fernandez reported 4 Broad-winged Hawks at Dinosaur
Ridge Hawk Watch.
---On April 24 at Robert Easton Regional Park, David Suddjian reported 2
Long-billed Curlew.
---On April 24 At Harriman Lake Park, David Suddjian reported Green Heron
and Solitary Sandpiper.
---On April 24 at Chatfield SP, David Suddjian reported Least Flycatcher
upstream of Kingfisher Bridge and a pair of Eastern Phoebe near the bridge.
---On April 24 at Deer Creek at Valley Rd near South Valley Park, David
Suddjian reported Eastern Phoebe. On April 25 at Deer creek at Valley
Road, David Suddjian reported a pair of eastern Phoebe.
---On April 25near Buckhorn Road bridge about .3 miles downstream from
Valley Road, David Suddjian reported pair of Eastern Phoebe.
---On April 25 in Willow Creek Park near Chatfield Ave downstream of
Garrison St, David Suddjian reported Eastern Phoebe.
---On April 25 at Masey Draw at Dakota Hogback close to culvert un C470,
David Suddjian reported Eastern Phoebe.
---On Apri l 25 at Bear Creek Lake Park Big Soda Lakes N trail, Bruce
Cyganowski, Phil Lyon, and Frank Farrell reported Black-throated Gray
Warbler. On April 26 at Bear Creek Lake Park Big Soda Lakes N trail, Matt
Clark, Susan Bonfiglio, Phil Lyon and Tom Behnfield reported Black-throated
Gray Warbler.
---On April 25 at White Deer Valley Cougar Road, David Suddjian reported 2
Eastern Phoebe and Nashville Warbler.
---On April 26, David Suddjian reported ad Broad-wingd Hawk flew over St
Mary Church at South Prince St in Littleton.
---On April 28 at Harriman Lake Park, Patrick O’Driscoll, Mike Henwood, and
Rebecca Laroche reported Western Palm Warbler and Least Flycatcher.
KIOWA COUNTY:
---On April 25 at Nee Noshe Reservoir, Dave Leatherman reported 3
Sanderling, Long-billed Curlew, 150 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 5 Semipalmated
Plovers, and 2 Snowy Plovers.
---On April 28 at Kiowa Creek at CR 40, Anne Casella reported 6 Snowy
Plover, 2 Semipalmated Plovers, and 2 Stilt Sandpipers.
LA PLATA COUNTY:
---On April 25 at Pastorius Reservoir, Jason St Pierre and Susan Allerton
reported Semipalmated Plover. On April 25 at Pastorius Reservoir, Amy
Dobins reported Semipalmated Plover and 5 Long-billed Curlews. On April 26
at Pastorius Reservoir, Susan Allerton reported Semi palmated Plover. On
April 27 at Pastorius Reservoir, Susan Allerton reported Semipalmated
Plover and Long-billed Curlew.
LARIMER COUNTY:
---On April 24 at Horseshoe reservoir, Nick Komar reported 2 Caspian
Terns. On April 25 at Horsehsoe Reservoir, Nick Komar and David Wade
reported Whimbrel and 1-st cyc Lesser Black-backed Gull. On April 26 at
Horsehsoe Reservoir, Nick Komar reported 2-nd cyc Lesser Black-backed Gull
and Caspian Tern.
---On April 22 at Boyd Lake SP, Joe Mammoser reported 4 Long-billed Curlews
and 3 Caspian Terns.
---On April 23 at Running Deer/Cottonwood Hollow in Fort Collins, Joey
Angstman reported Green Heron.
---On April 28 at Lee Martinez Park, Rob Sparks reported Gray Flycatcher.
LOGAN COUNTY:
---On April 24 at Tamarck Ranch SWA, Randy Siebert reported 2 Red-headed
Woopeckers, Red-bellied Woodpecker, and Northern Cardinal.
---On April 24 on Hwy 138 between Crook and Proctor, Randy Siebert reported
Upland Sandpiper.
MESA COUNTY:
---On April 24 at Highline Lake SP, Mike Henwood reported Glossy Ibis.
---On April 25 at Corn Lake, Susan Longest reported BROWN PELICAN. On
April 26, Dave and Diane Trappet t and many other birders reported BROWN
PELICAN at Corn Lake. On April 27, David Chartier and several other
birders reported BROWN PELICAN at Corn Lake. On April 28, near Corn Lake,
Jason St. Pierre reported Brown Pelican soaring west of the lake and later
in the day Denise and Mark Vollmar reported that the Brown Pelican returned
to Corn Lake.
---On April 27 at Highline Reservoir, Coen Dexter reported Sandering and
Gray Flycatcher.
---On April 27 at Coal Canyon Little Bookcliffs Wild Horse Area, Clinton
Nienhaus reported 3 possible BLACK-TAILED GNATCATCHERS. If documented and
accepted this would be a new state bird.
---On April 28 at Highline Lake SP, David Price and Carol Ortenzio reported
8 Sanderling and 8 Caspian Terns.
MONTROSE COUNTY:
---On April 26 at Black Canyon Crystal Dam, Betty Fenton reported Barrow’s
Goldeneye.
MORGAN COUNTY:
---On April 23 at Jackson Reservoir, David Dowell reported 26 Whimbrel,
short-billed Dowitcher, and 3 Caspian Terns.
---On Aprl 24 at intersection of Hwy 71 and CR JJ, Clinton Nienhaus
reported 4 White-rumped Sandpipers and 7 Semipalmated Sandpipers.
PUEBLO COUNTY:
---On April 23 at mineral Palace Park, Yellow-throated Warbler was reported
at scatter places by Brandon Percival, Amy Davis, Van Truan, and Kara
Carragher. On April 26 at Mineral Palace Park, Van Truan reported
Yellow-throated Warbler in SW corner. On April 28 at Mineral Palace Park,
Leon Bright reported Yellow-throated Warbler.
---On April 23 at Pueblo Reservoir North Picnic Road, Brandon Percival and
Kara Carragher reported Whimbrel.
---On April 23 below Pueblo Reservoir Dam, Brandon Percival reported a pair
of Black Phoebe.
---On April 24 east of Reservoir Road, Rick Clawges reported Carolina Wren,
On April 25, Brandon Percival reported singing Carolina Wren, 6 Black
Poebe along Arkansas River East of Pueblo Blvd.
---On April 25 at Pueblo City Park, Brandon Percival reported Green Heron.
RIO BLANCO COUNTY:
---On April 25 at Circle Park in Meeker, Jan Leonard reported Black Phoebe.
RIO GRANDE COUNTY:
---On April 23 near Bowen, John Rawinski reported Gray Flycatcher.
ROUTT COUNTY:
---On April 28 at Stagecoach SP, Lisa Edwards and Chris Owens reported imm
Trumpeter Swan.
WASHINGTON COUNTY:
---On April 22 at CR P and CR 52 Chris Wood and Jessie Barry reported 4
Greater Prairie-Chicken, 2 CASSIN’S Sparrows and 2 Grasshopper Sparrows.
WELD COUNTY:
---On April 23 at Stewart’s Pond, Luke Pheneger, Maikel and Susan Wise
reported Mute Swan. On April 24, Dale and Joel Adams reported Mute Swan
and 2 Short-billed Dowitchers at Stewart’s Pond. On April 25 at Stewart’s
Pond, Steve Mlodinow reported Mute Swan and Short-billed Dowitcher. On
April 27 at Stewart’s Pond, Gene Rutherford reported 2 Short-billed
Dowitchers and Solitary Sandpiper.
--- On April 23 at Behrens Reservoir, Carmencita and Dean Shoup reported
Semipalmated Plover and Mute Swan.
---On April 23 at Union Reservoir, Luke Pheneger, Maikel and Susan Wise
reported Semipalmated Plover, Laughing Gull, 2 Caspian Terns, and
Grasshopper Sparrow.
---On April 26 at CR 59 Pond, Rebecca Grieser reported Glossy Ibis.
---On April 23 at Pawnee NG Murphy’s Pasture and auto tour stops 2 and 3,
Austin Hess and CSU Ornithologist Club reported 3 Grasshopper Sparrows and
2 Brewer’s Sparrows.
---On April 23 on Cr 134 between CR 111 and CR 115, Art Hudak and Mark
Chavez reported 19 Sharp-tailed Grouse and 2 Grasshopper Sparrows.
---On April 27 at Union Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow, Luke Pheneger, and
Maikel Wise reported 2 Sanderling, and 4 Semipalmated Sandpipers. On April
28 aat Union Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported 10 Semipalmated Plovers, 2
Sandering, and Caspian Tern.
---On April 28 at Lower Reservoir on CR 48, Tom and Mary France reported
10-12 Whimbrel.
---On April 28 at CR 136 east of CR 99, Gene Rutherford reported 2
Grasshopper Sparrows.
---On April 28 at CR 99 between CR 130 and CR 132, Gene Rutherford reported
Sharp-tailed Grouse and Grasshopper Sparrow.
---On April 28 at Pawnee NG Murphy’s Pasture area and auto tour stopes 2
and 3, Robert Beauchamp reported Grasshopper Sparrow.
---On April 28 at CR 86 and CR 105, John Kvarnback reported Chest-collared
Longspur, 50 McCown’s Longspur and Grasshopper Sparrow.
Denver Field Ornithologists Field Trips:
The DFO Field Trip for Saturday, April 29 will be to Jackson Lake Reservoir
led by Chuck Hundertmak (chundertmark8 AT gmail.com; 303-605-0531). Meet
at 0830 at Colorado Parks and Wildlife, 6060 N Broadway. Exit I-25 at 58th
Ave, go west 2 blocks to Broadway, then north 2 block to parking lot on
right to carpool. State Parks pass or day pass required.
This is an all-day trip so bring lunch, plenty of water, bug spray,
and sunscreen. Scope will be helpful and remember you mud boots as we may
hike through some mud. Plan to carpool and remain for the full trip.
Register online or contact leader.
The DFO Field Trip for Sunday, April 30 will be to First Creek at Denver
Open Space led by John Breitsch and Patrick O-Driscoll (jbreitsch AT
Hotmail.com; 303-588-0552). This trip is full
The DFO Field Trip for Sunday April 30 will be to Monte Vista NWR led by
jill Boice (jill AT booksandcats.net; 303-864-7580). Meet at Visitor
Center at 0800.
Directions: 6129 S. Highway 15, Monte Vista, CO 81144. From Monte Vista,
go east on US 286/160 about 3 miles. Turn South on S Co Rd 3E and travel
about 8.7 miles. Go west on W Co Rd 6 2 to the Visitor Center.
Overnight trip. Casey Setash, a graduate student at CSU, is tracking
Cinnamon teal at Monte Vista NWR.
She will take us to an area where she is trapping ducks for hand-on-fun.
Then she will take us for a tour of a couple of the interesting areas
around the refuge that might include areas that are not normally open to
the public. For Those arriving in Monte Vista on Saturday, we will
probably meet for a late afternoon visit to the refuge, to be determined.
Please try to carpool from Denver. Contact Jill for further details.
Register online or contact leader.
Good Birding,
Joyce Takamine
Boulder
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