July 1, late AM , 3-4 miles west of Monte Vista (Rio Grande County) on Lariat Road - one Swallow-tailed Flycatcher over dry hay field. Virginia Simmons, Del Norte
On Sunday, July 2, 2017 at 4:30:40 AM UTC-6, Joyce Takamine wrote: > > Compiler: Joyce Takamine > e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org > Date: July 2, 2017 > > This is the Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, July 2 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. > > Mallard (Mexican) (Logan) > Barrow’s Goldeneye (*Chaffee) > Northern Bobwhite (Baca) > White-tailed Ptarmigan (Larimer) > Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Baca, Logan) > Greater Roadrunner (Baca) > Black Swift (Boulder) > RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD (Logan) > Black Rail (Pueblo) > Upland Sandpiper (Logan) > Long-billed Curlew (Weld) > Solitary Sandpiper (*Douglas) > Lesser Black-backed Gull (Weld) > Common Loon (Jackson, Ouray) > YELLOW-BILLED LOON (Dolores) > WHITE IBIS (*Adams) > Mississippi Kite (*El Paso) > Lewis’s Woodpecker (Dolores) > Red-headed Woodpecker (Adams, Jefferson, Logan) > ACORN WOODPECKER (Gunnison) > Red-bellied Woodpecker (Logan) > Williamson’s Sapsucker (Boulder, Delta, Jefferson, Larimer, Pitkin, > Pueblo, *Teller) > American Three-toed Woodpecker (Gunnison) > Least Flycatcher (*Mesa) > Black Phoebe (*Boulder, Ouray) > Great Crested Flycatcher (Logan) > Cassin’s Kingbird (Baca) > Bell’s Vireo (Pueblo) > Chihuahuan Raven (Baca) > Purple Martin (Delta, *Huerfano) > Curve-billed Thrasher (Baca, El Paso) > Chestnut-collared Longspur (Weld) > McCown’s Longspur (*Larimer, Weld) > Northern Waterthrush (Jackson) > Canyon Towhee (*Baca) > Clay-colored Sparrow (Baca) > Field Sparrow (Logan) > BAIRD’S SPARROW (*Larimer) > Fox Sparrow (Boulder, Jackson, Larimer, San Juan) > Summer Tanager (Montezuma) > Northern Cardinal (Logan) > Painted Bunting (*Baca) > Dickcissel (Alamosa/Conejos, *Boulder, Chaffee, *Conejos, *Douglas, *El > Paso, Huerfano, *Larimer, Logan, *Rio Grande) > Bobolink (Huerfano, *Larimer) > Orchard Oriole (*Broomfield) > Balitmore Oriole (Logan) > > ADAMS COUNTY: > ---A WHITE IBIS was reported by Zachary Schiff on June 18 at Lowell Ponds > (North side of I-76). On June 25, the WHITE IBIS was reported by Ira > Sanders, Hillary White, and John Malenich at Lowell Ponds (Clear Creek > Valley Park). On June 28 Carl Lundblad reported that the WHITE IBIS > continues at Lowell Ponds (Clear Creek Valley Park) on the SE pond. On > June 29 Eric Zawatski and Meg Reck reported WHITE IBIS at Lowell Ponds > (Clear Creek Valley Park). On June 30, Glenn Walbek reported WHITE IBIS at > Lowell Ponds (Clear Creek Valley Park). On July 1 at Lowell Ponds (Clear > Creek Valley Park), Joey Kellner, Tim Smart, and Ben Sampson reported WHITE > IBIS. > > ALAMOSA/CONEJOS COUNTIES: > ---On June 28, Jan Rawinski reported 14 Dickcissels on CC Road. > > BACA COUNTY: > ---On June 24 at Picture Canyon, Wayne Heideman reported 2 Northern > Bobwhite, 5 Chichuahuan Raven, Curve-billed Thrasher, and 2 Painted > Bunting. On June 29 at Picture Canyon, Glenn Walbek reported Northern > Bobwhite, 2 Greater Roadrunners, 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 3 Canyon Towhee, 2 > Painted Bunting. > ---On June 26 at Comanche NG (Baca County Section), JoAnn Hackos reported > Greater Roadrunner, 2 Cassin’s Kingbirds, 7 Chihuahuan Ravens, and > Clay-colored Sparrow. > > BOULDER COUNTY: > ---On June 25, 3 Dickcissels were reported by Bob Spencer on 111th St > (dirt rd) that wragps around Prince Lake 2 then intersects to north with > Isabelle. > ---On June 25, a Black Phoebe was reported by Megan Jones and Mike > Patterson at 75th St and Boulder Creek. On June 27 at Boulder Creek and > 75th St, Chris Thomas reported Black Phoebe. > ---On June 28, from Caribou townsite to Blad Mountain, Dave Hallock > reported 6 Fox Sparrows in Willow Carr. > ---On June 29 at Crane Hollow Road and Ponds, Carl Starace reported Black > Phoebe at creek bridge closest to Hygiene Road and Dickcissel. > ---On June 30 on road to Wild Basin, Peter Gent reported Williamson > Sapsucker. > ---On June 30 at Ouzel Falls in Wild Basin, Rocky Mountain NP, Peter Gent > reported Black Swift on nest in usual spot. > > BROOMFIELD COUNTY: > ---On July 1 at 2850 Big Dry Creek Dr, Eric Zorawowicz reported ad m > Orchard Oriole. This would be a new county record if accepted. > > CHAFFEE COUNTY: > ---On June 25 on CR 175 near intersection with RR tracks, Jeff Guy > reported a pair of mating Dickcissels. > ---On June 27 at Sands Lake SWA, Daryl Bernard reported Barrow’s > Goldeneye. On June 30 at Sands Lake SWA, Patricia Henschen reported > Barrow’s Goldeneye. On July 1 at Sands Lake SWA, Nick Komar and Sharon > Forsyth reported 3 Barrow’s Goldeneyes (1 subadult male on shore of island, > 2 f sleeping on water). > > CONEJOS COUNTY: > ---On June 30 on Hwy 15 about 1.75 miles west of US 285, Dave Hawksworth > reported 5 singing Dickcissels. > > DELTA COUNTY: > ---On June 28 in Hubbark Park N of Paonia, Dennis Garrison reported pair > of Williamson’s Sapsuckers nesting in broke Spruce Snag and several Purple > Martin nest trees. > > DOLORES COUNTY: > ---On June 25 an imm YELLOW-BILLED LOON was reported by Jim Beatty at > Groundhog Reservoir in the NW section. > ---On June 28 at Groundhog Reservoir, Andy Boyce reported Lewis’s > Woodpeckers. > > DOUGLAS COUNTY: > ---On June 30 at Greenland Open Space, Gloria Nikolai reported Dickcissell. > ---On July 1 at Parker Regional Park (aka Salisbury Equestrian Park), > Christine Alexander reported Solitary Sandpiper. > > EL PASO COUNTY: > ---On June 24 at Adams Open Space in Fountain, Tanja Britton reported 2 > Mississippi Kites. On June 27 at > Adams Open Space in Fountain, Alan Versaw reported 2 Mississippi Kites. > ---On June 26 at Bear Creek Park East, Jim Nelson reported 5 singing m > Dickcissels. On June 29, Linda Hodges reported 4 singing Dickcissels south > of community garden at Bear Creek Park. > ---On June 27 at Birdsall Rd, Alan Versaw reported 2 Curve-billed > Thrashers. > ---On July 1 at 23 Otowi Driver, Colorado Springs, Brandon Nooner reported > a pair of nesting Mississippi Kites. > > GRAND COUNTY: > ---On June 29 in Rocky Mt NP on Colorado River Trail, Andy Keister > reported 2 American Three-toed Woodpeckers. > > GUNNISON COUNTY: > ---On June 26 Paul Ode reported a pair of ACORN WOODPECKERS on CR 27 > (38.2004, -107.-591) south of Rudloph Hill. This would be a new county > record if accepted. > > HUERFANO COUNTY: > ---On June 25, Polly Wren Neldner reported 76 – 100 Dickcissels on CR 360, > 350, 340, and 341 and > 9 Bobolinks on CR 358 & 360. > ---On June 30 about 15 miles west of Aguilar, Jim and Irene Thompson > reported a pair of Purple Martins going in and out of a nest hole. > > JACKSON COUNTY: > ---On June 25 at Aspen Campground, Chuck Hundertmark reported Fox Sparrow. > ---On June 25 at Michigan River Wetlands near CR 30, Chuck Hundertmark > reported Fox Sparrow. > ---On June 26 at Lake John Annex, Chuck Hundertmark reported first summer > Common Loon. > > JEFFERSON COUNTY: > ---On June 30 at Stony Pass at Wigwam Creek, Frank Farrell reported 2 > Red-headed Woodpeckers. > > LARIMER COUNTY: > ---On June 20, Andy Bankert, Jacob Drucker, and Jason Gregg reported > Upland Sandpiper, 30 McCown’s Longspurs (N of Pronghorn/Plover > intersection) and 4 BAIRD’S SPARROWS (S of Pronghorn/Plover intersection). > They were looking for evidence of nesting of BAIRD’S SPARROWS and found > none. On June 24 at Soapstone Prairie NA David Dowell, Kara Carragher, > and Lisa Edwards reported 3 BAIRD’S SPARROWS and 17 McCown’s Longspurs. On > June 26 at Soapstone Prairie, Plover Trail, Greg Rand and Walter Wehtje > reported 3 BAIRD’S SPARROWS. ON June 29 at Soapstone Prairie NA, Eric > Zawatski reported 2 McCown’s Longspurs and BAIRD’S SPARROW. > ---On June 26 on Unnamed Road S of Soapstone Prairie Greg Rand and Walter > Wehtje reported 8 McCown’s Longspurs. > ---On June 27 2 singing Dickcissels were reported by Libby Edwards at > Reservoir Ridge near the parking lot in first part of trail from Overland > Drive. > ---On June 28 w White-tailed Ptarmigan was reported by Jane Baryames and > Boulder Bird Club at trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain NP. > ---On June 29, along fence of Reservoir Ridge Trail from Overland Drive, > Libby Edwards reported 7 Bobolinks and a pair of Dickcissels. On June 30 > at reservoir Ridge NA along the first mile, Dave Leatherman reported 3-4 > Bobolinks and 5+ Dickcissels. > > LOGAN COUNTY: > ---On June 28 at Tamarack Ranch SWA 385 Road, Loch Kilpatrick reported > Yellow-billed Cuckoo, m RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, 3 Red-headed > Woodpeckers, 2 Red-bellied Woodpeckers, Great Crested Flycatcher, 2 Field > Sparrows, 2 Northern Cardinals, 2 Dickcissels, Baltimore Oriole. > ---On June 28 at Red Lion SWA, Loch Kilpatrick reported Mallard (Mexican) > amd 2 Upland Sandpipers. > > MESA COUNTY: > ---On June 20 in Collbran Job Corp Area, PE Road, Mike Henwood reported > Least Flycatcher. On June 24 in Collbran, PE Road, Rodene Harwood and > Ronda Woodward reported Least Flycatcher. On July 2 in Collbran, PE Road, > Deb Stegall, Rodene Harwood, and Ronda Woodward reported Least Flycatcher. > > OURAY COUNTY: > ---On June 25 at bridge over Uncompahgre River at Billy Creek SWA, Kent > Nelson reported 3 Black Phoebes. > > PITKIN COUNTY: > ---On June 24 a pair of Williamson’s Sapsuckers was reported by Art Dahl > At Ruedi Reservoir, Chapman Dam campground. > > PUEBLO COUNTY: > ---On June 15 a Black Rail was reported by Bill Kaempfer at Nepesta Road > Marsh. On June 23 a Black Rail was reported by SeEtta Moss at Nepesta Road. > ---On June 27 a singing Bell’s Vireo was reported by Brandon Percival in > Olives at 3rd Valco Pond. > > RIO GRANDE COUNTY: > ---On June 30 a singing Dickcissell was reported by Dave Hawksworth behind > Monte Electric on W side of US 285 about mile N of US 160. > > TELLER COUNTY: > ---On July 1 at Florissant Fossil Beds NM, Deborah Barnes and Tanja > Britton reported 3 Williamson’s Sapsuckers. > > WELD COUNTY: > ---On June 20 at Windsor Lake, Steve Mlodinow reported 4 Lesser > Black-backed Gulls. On June 23 at Windsor Lake, Jean Olson reported Lesser > Black-backed Gull. On June 24 at Windsor Lake, Nick Komar reported 3 imm > Lesser Black-backed Gulls. On June 25, Gary Lefko reported 2 imm Lesser > Black-backed Gulls at Windsor Lake. On June 26, Dennis Trujillo reported 3 > Lesser Black-backed Gulls at Windsor Lake. > ---On June 25 at Pawnee NG; Gary Lefko reported 6 Long-billed Curlews at > CR 69 .5 mi N of Swainson’s Hawk interpretive sign; McCown’s Longspurs > were along CR 104 with 2 Chestnut-collared Longspurs. > > Denver Field Ornithologists Field Trips > The DFO Field Trip for Saturday, July 1 will be to Golden Gate Canyon SP > led by Paula Hansley (plhansley AT gmail.com; 720-890-2628) Directions: > From Denver take Hwy 93 to west side of Golden, just north of Golden, at > traffic light, go West on Hwy 46 (Golden Gate Canyon Road). Immediately, > turn left into parking lot on the side of road. > Will carpool to Visitor’s Center at 0730 and explore the area by the > lake. Then will head up to Bootleg Bottom and hike parts of the Coyote and > Elk trails to visit ponderosa pine, aspen, and riparian habitats. Bring > lunch or snacks, water and extra jacket. Register online or contact leader. > > The DFO Field Trip for Sunday, July 2will be to Mt Lindo Cemetery and > Turkey Creek Park leg by Karen Drozda (drozforte AT AOL.com; 303-388-0891). > Directions: Meet At 0715 at Home Depot at 4277 S Eldridge St, > Morrison. If driving south on C-470, take the Quincy Ave exit, turn right > on Quincy Ave, then take Left on West Tufts Ave, If traveling north on > C-470, you will turn right onto W Quincy after the exit, then take left on > West Tufts Ave. Home Depot sign can be seen from highway. > Will leave the Home Depot parking lot at 0730. Restrooms are > available inside Home Depot. Will first travel to Turkey Creek Park. Will > spend about 90 in this location by the creek. Then will travel to Mount > Lindo Memorial Park. Gates for this park open at 0900. Bring the usual > water, snacks, appropriate clothing for variable weather, and bug spring. > Register online or cotact leader. > > For more information on the field trips go to dfobirds.org. > > Good Birding, > Joyce Takamine > Boulder > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/a783440c-1d3f-4a06-a7a3-2d6b49d4de1d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
