Date: July 8, 2018 Compiler: Joyce Takamine e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, July 8 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 changed. Trumpeter Swan (Archuleta) Ring-necked Duck (*Kiowa) Lesser Scaup (*Kiowa) Bufflehead (*Boulder) Hooded Merganser (*Adams, Arapahoe) Northern Bobwhite (Logan, *Weld) Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Logan, Otero) Greater Roadrunner (Otero) LESSER NIGHTHAWK (Montrose) Black Swift (Clear Creek, Pueblo) Chimney Swift (Jefferson) COMMON GALLINULE (*Larimer) American Coot (Phillips) Black-necked Stilt (*Kiowa) Snowy Plover (*Kiowa) Upland Sandpiper (Logan) Long-billed Curlew (*Arapahoe) Baird’s Sandpiper (El Paso) Solitary Sandpiper (El Paso) Least Sandpiper (Douglas, *Kiowa) Western Sandpiper (*Weld) Solitary Sandpiper (*Weld) Lesser Yellowlegs (*Kiowa, *Larimer, *Weld) Willet (Boulder, *Kiowa) Greater Yellowlegs (Boulder, *Kiowa, *Larimer, *Weld) Caspian Tern (Boulder) Snowy Egret (Eagle) Little Blue Heron (Boulder) Cattle Egret (Jefferson, *Kiowa, *Pueblo) Green Heron (*Denver, *Larimer, Logan) White-faced Ibis (Eagle, Summit) Mississippi Kite (*Adams, El Paso) Northern Goshawk (Jefferson) Lewis’s Woodpecker (Archuleta) Red-headed Woodpecker (Logan) Acorn Woodpecker (La Plata) Red-bellied Woodpecker (Logan) Hairy Woodpecker (Logan) American Three-toed Woodpecker (Clear Creek, Grand) EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE (Logan) Least Flycatcher (Eagle) Hammond’s Flycatcher (Weld) Cordilleran Flycatcher (*Arapahoe) Black Phoebe (*Ouray, Teller) Eastern Phoebe (*Douglas) Ash-throated Flycatcher (El Paso) Cassin’s Kingbird (La Plata) Red-breasted Nuthatch (Arapahoe, *Weld) Yellow-throated Vireo (Weld) Red-eyed Vireo (Weld) Canada Jay (Gray Jay) (Clear Creek, Mesa) Common Raven (*Weld) Purple Martin (Mesa) Bushtit (Adams, Gilpin, *Weld) Pacific Wren (*Larimer) Blue-gray Gnatcathcer (*Montrose) Eastern Bluebird (Otero) Curve-billed Thrasher (El Paso) American Pipit (Clear Creek) Brown-capped Rosy-Finch (Clear Creek, *Gunnison) Red Crossbill (Clear Creek) Lesser Goldfinch (Boulder) McCown’s Longspur (Larimer) Cassin’s Sparrow (Boulder) Chipping Sparrow (*Arapahoe) Field Sparrow (Larimer, Weld) Lark Sparrow (El Paso) Lark Bunting (Boulder) Grasshopper Sparrow (*Jefferson) BAIRD’S SPARROW (Larimer) Fox Sparrow (*Gunnison) White-throated Sparrow (Weld) Orchard Oriole (Logan, *Weld) Baltimore Oriole (Logan, *Prowers) Brown-headed Cowbird (*Arapahoe) American Redstart (Douglas) Northern Parula (Pueblo) Chestnut-sided Warbler (Boulder) Black-throated Blue Warbler (Weld) Grace’s Warbler (Mesa) Black-throated Gray Warbler (*Montrose Northern Cardinal (Logan) Lazuli Bunting (Logan) Indigo Bunting (Boulder, Mesa. *Montrose) Dickcissel (*Alamosa, Boulder, *Jefferson, *Kiowa, Logan, *Rio Grande, *Weld) ADAMS COUNTY: ---On July 4 at Morrison Nature Center at Star K Ranch, G Stacks reported 5 Bushtit. On July 7 at Morrison Nature Center at Star K Ranch, Arthur Gest reported Mississippi Kite. ---On July 7 on Ponds S of Big Dry Creek Parks, Matt Hofeditz reported 2 juv Hooded Mergansers. ALAMOSA COUNTY: ---On July 7 at CR CC and CR 22 S of Alamosa, John Rawinski reported Dickcissels. ARAPAHOE COUNTY: ---On July 4 on High Line Canal Trail –S University Blvd to E Orchard Rd, Cynthia Madsen reported 2 Cordilleran Flycatchers. On July 7 on High Line Canal Trail – S University Blvd to E Orchard Rd, Jared Del Rosso reported 2 Cordilleran Flycatcher feeding Cowbird. ---On July 5 at Littleton Cemetery, David Suddjian reported 2 Chipping Sparrows. On July 7 at Littleton Cemetery David Suddjian reported 5 Chipping Sparrows. ---On July 2 at Writers Vista Park in Littleton, Santiago Tabares reported Chipping Sparrow. ---On July 3 at Centennial Park, Crystal Wilson reported Hooded Merganser. On July 4 at Centennial Park, Edward Donnan reported Hooded Merganser. ---On July 6 at Willow Spring OS, Jared Del Rosso reported Long-billed Curlew. ---On July 7 at Marjorie Perry Nature Preserve, Jared Del Rosso reported 2 Chipping Sparrows. ARCHULETA COUNTY: ---On July 3 at Pinon Lake Reservoir, Justin Bosler reported Trumpeter Swan and 2 Lewis’s Woodpeckers. BOULDER COUNTY: ---On July 2 at Walden Ponds/Cottonwood Marsh, Tanja Britton, Lucas Rot, Ben Sanders, Tracy and Luke Pheneger reported imm Little Blue Heron. ---On June 16 at South Mesa Trail Parking Lot, Dan Zmolek and Leslie S reported m Chestnut-sided Warbler, pair of Indigo Bunting and 4 Lesser Goldfinch. On July 2 at South Mesa Trail, David Chernack reported Chestnut-sided Warbler. On July 3 at South Mesa Trail Meg Reck reported Chestnut-sided Warbler. On July 4 at South Mesa Trail, Jon Webb reported Chestnut-sided Warbler. ----On July 2 at Lagerman Reservoir, Ben Sanders, Luke and Tracy Pheneger and Chris Brown reported Caspian Tern; Brown also reported Greater Yellowlegs. On July 3 at Lagerman Reservoir, Leslie S and John Malenich reported Caspian Tern; Leslie s also reported Greater Yellowlegs. On July 4 at Lagerman Reservoir, Chris Brown reported Caspian Tern and Willet. On July 5 at Lagerman Reservoir, David Ely, John Rutenbeck, Kathy Mihm Dunning, David Haskell, and Katie Lehman reported Caspian Tern. On July 6 at Lagerman Reservoir, Peter Gent, Jack and Ryan Bushong, and Steve Rash reported Caspian Tern. ---On July 1 and July 3 at Little Gaynor Lake, John Rutenbeck reported Bufflehead. ---On July 5 at Dodd Reservoir, Katie Lehman and David Haskell reported Caspian Tern caught a fish and headed to Lagerman Reservoir. ---On July 4 in field at SE corner of St Vrain Rd and N 65th St, Peter Gent reported Dickcissels. ---On July 7 at Golden Pond Park and NA, Keith Leland reported Bufflehead. CLEAR CREEK COUNTY: ---On July 3 on Mt Evans BBS route, David Suddjian reported Canada Jays, American Three-toed Woodpeckers, Brown-capped Rosy-Finch, and Red Crossbills. On July 4 on Mt Evans, Andrew Fontenot reported 2 Black Swift and 4 American Pipit. DENVER COUNTY: ---On July 2 at Bluff Lake Nature Center, Elaine Wagner, Colleen Nunn, and Meg Reck reported Green Heron. On July 4 at Bluff Lake Nature Center, Steve Herbert reported Green Heron. On July 7 at Bluff Lake Nature Center, James McCall reported Green Heron. DOUGLAS COUNTY: ---On July 3 at Parker Regional Park (aka Salisbury Equestrian Park), Loch Kilpatrick reported 3 Least Sandpipers. ---On July 5 at Roxborough SP, Chris Gilbert reported f American Redstart. ---On Juliy 7 at Platte Canyon Reservoir, Diane Roberts reported Eastern Phoebe. EAGLE COUNTY: ---On July 6 at Gypsum Ponds, JoAnn Riggle reported Snowy Egret, White-faced Ibis, and Least Flycatcher. EL PASO COUNTY: ---On July 2 at Chico Basin Ranch wooded areas, Cathy Bondy reported Curve-billed Thrasher. ---On July 2 at Cheyenne Mountain SP, Rod Schmidt reported Ash-throated Flycatcher. On July 5 at Cheyenne Mountain SP, Tanja Britton reported Ash-throated Flycatcher. ---On July 4 at Squirrel Creek Road Pond, Aaron Driscoll reported Solitary Sandpiper. ---On July 3 at Fountain Creek Regional Park, Alan and MaryLynne Ketcham reported Mississippi Kite. ---On July 4 at Adams Open Space in Fountain, Tanja Britton reported 2 Mississippi Kites. ---On July 5 at Chico Basin Ranch, Cassidy, Robert, Tracy, and Tyler Ficker reported Curve-billed Thrasher. GILPIN COUNTY: ---On July 2 on Lake Gulch Rd, Eric DeFonso reported 3 Bushtits. GRAND COUNTY: ---On July 2 on Green Mountain Trail, Marcus Roening reported 8 American Three-toed Woodpeckers (3 pairs, 2 young). GUNNISON COUNTY: ---On July 7 at White River NF, Carbondale, Steven Horvath reported Fox Sparrow and 4 Brown-capped Rosy-Finch. JEFFERSON COUNTY: ---On July 2 at Coal Creek OS, Betty Glass, David Chernack, Jack and Ryan Bushong reported Dickcissels and Grasshopper Sparrows. On July 4 at Coal Creek OS, Cameron Carver reported 5 Grasshopper Sparrows and 3 Dickcissel. On July 6 at Coal Creek OS, David Hill and Cynthia Madsen reported Grasshopper Sparrow and Dickcissel. On July 7 at Coal Creek OS, JoAnn Hackos reported 4 Dickcissel. ---On July 4 at Stauton SP, Santiago and Paulo Tabares reported Northern Goshawk. ---On July 3 at Majestic View Park, Carol and Carl Trovall reported 4 Cattle Egret. On July 4 at Majestic View Park, Bob Spencer reported Cattle Egret. ---On July 4 on Hwy 93 N of Hwy 72 on east side, Cameron Carver reported Cattle Egret. KIOWA COUNTY: ---On July 7 at Neenoshe Reservoir, Steve Schmit reported 4 Ring-necked Ducks, Lesser Scaup, 8 Black-necked Stilt, 6 Cattle Egret, 2 Snowy Plover, Least Sandpiper, 2 Greater Yellowlegs, Willet, 3 Lesser Yellowlegs, and Dickcissel. LA PLATA COUNTY: ---On July 3 at Meadow Road, Rafter J Subdivision, Kathy Bearden and Ed Rumberger reported Acorn Woodpeckers. ---On July 3 at 12413-13661 CR 136, Hesperus, Kathy Bearden reported Cassin’s Kingbird. LARIMER COUNTY: ---On July 1 at Running Deer and Cottonwood Hollow NA, Robert Beauchamp reported COMMON GALLINULE. On July 2 at Running Deer NA, David Wade, Jim Nachel, Joe Mammoser, and Nick Komar reported COMMON GALLINULE. On July 3 at Running Deer NA, Gary Lefko reported Green Heron and Sean Walters reported COMMON GALLINULE. On July 4 at Running Deer NA, John Shenot and several other birders reported COMMON GALLINULE and Green Heron. Shenot suggests bringing a ladder to views the bird above the vegetation. On July 5 at Running Deer NA, Todd Deininger and many other birders reported COMMON GALLINULE and 2 Green Heron; Norm Erthal and Joey Angstman reported Greater Yellowlegs. On July 7 at Running Deer NA, Steve Stachoswiak, Caroline Olson, Andy Bankert, Cameron Carver, Dean Shoup, and Nick Komar reported COMMON GALLINULE and Green Heron. ---On July 3 at Mariana Butte NA, Cheri Orwig reported Yellow-billed Cuckoo on Hidden Hogback Trail. ---On July 4 at Soapstone Prairie NA, Andy Bankert and Caroline Olson reported 100 McCown’s Longspurs including 20+ young and BAIRD’S SPARROW. ---On July 4 on West Creek trail in Comanche Peak Wilderness, Tyler Wilson reported Pacific Wren. On July 7 on West Creek, David Dowell reported Pacific Wren. ---On July 6 at Wellington SWA Cobb Lake Unit, Andy Bankert and Caroline Olson reported 2 Greater Yellowlegs and 3 Lesser Yellowlegs. LOGAN COUNTY ---On July 4 at Tamarack Ranch SWA, David Dowell reported 6 Northern Bobwhite, Green Heron, Upland Sandpiper, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 8 Red-headed Woodpeckers, 2 Red-bellied Woodpeckers, 2 Hairy Woodpeckers, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, 5 Northern Cardinal, Indigo Bunting, 23 Dickcissel, 13 Orchard Orioles and 3 Baltimore Orioles. MESA COUNTY: ---On July 6 at Telephone Trail Area, Nic Korte reported Williamson’s Sapsucker and Grace’s Warbler. ---On July 6 at Divide Road Thimble Point FR # 417, Christine Alexander reported 3 Canada Jay, 2 Purple Martin, Grace’s Warbler and Indigo Bunting. MONTROSE COUNTY: ---On July 4 at Nucla Sewage Lagoons, Coen Dexter and Brenda Wright reported 1 f LESSER NIGHTHAWK. ---On July 7 on Old Hwy 90 through Silver Hawk Ranch, Coen Dexter and Brenda Wright reported 7 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, 3 Black-throated Gray Warblers, and 2 Indigo Bunting. OURAY COUNTY: ---On July 7 at Billy Crfeek SWA, Norm Lewis reported Black Phoebe. PROWERS COUNTY: ---On July 2 on S 13th in Lamar, Dorothy Russell reported Baltimore Oriole. On July 6 and 7 on S 13th in Lamar, Dorothy Russell reported Baltimore Oriole. PUEBLO COUNTY: ---On July 4 at Valco Pond SWA, Alan Ketcham reported Northern Parula. ---On July 4 at Pueblo Reservoir Swallows area, Tim Leppek reported 3 Cattle Egret. On July 7 at Pueblo Reservoir Swallows area, Van Truan reported 2 Cattle Egret. ---On July 5 on Swallows Rd in Pueblo, Kevin Ash reported 2 Cattle Egret. RIO GRANDE COUNTY: ---On July 7 on Swede Lane 2 Miles N of Monte Vista on US 285, John Rawinski reported 12 Dickcissels. SUMMIT COUNTY: ---On July 3 at Green Mountain Reservoir, Rebecca Laroche reported 3 White-faced Ibis. TELLER COUNTY: ---On July 4 at Manitou Lake SP, Aiden Moser reported Black Phoebe at bottom of dam. WELD COUNTY: ---On July 7 at Centennial Valley SWA, Steve Mlodinow reported 4 Northern Bobwhite, 9 Dickcissel, 14 Orchard Orioles. ---On July 7 at Central Plains Experimental Range, Bruce Cyganowski and Jonelle Balias reported 1 Common Ravens. ---On July 7 at Woods Lake, Steve Mlodinow reported 4 Western Sandpipeprs, 1 juv Solitary Sandpiper, 3 Greater Yellowlegs and Lesser Yellowlegs. ---On July 7 at Glenmere Park in Greeley, Steve Mlodinow reported Bushtit and Red-breasted Nuthatch. DFO Field Trips See DFO website for more information Cherry Creek SP Wetlands Loop Sunday, July 8 8:00AM – 12:00 PM Karen von Saltza & Bill Wuerthele (kvonsaltza AT YAHOO.COM; 303-941-4881) 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]. 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