[cobirds] Northern Boulder County, another Calliope this morning

[Pam Piombino]

This male had a white streak on top of its head, so I know it is different
from the one I saw a few days ago.

Cheers, Pam

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Re: [cobirds] Broad-tailed Hummingbirds ARE double-brooded!

['Larry' via Colorado Birds]

Nice work, Dave,

It’s good to see Citizen Science in action!

Larry Modesitt
Greenwood Village
> On Jul 7, 2017, at 7:10 PM, DAVID A LEATHERMAN  wrote:
> 
> Today I think I saw proof that Broad-tailed Hummingbirds can have two broods 
> at low elevation.  The evidence that they do has been highly suggestive for 
> years, but without banding or otherwise marking individual females, proof has 
> been difficult to acquire.  At Grandview Cemetery in Fort Collins (Larimer) 
> about a half hour ago, I tracked down a fledged hummingbird making that 
> strange chirp they make for only a few days after leaving the nest.  Nathan 
> Pipelow, you still need to record this.  Or I need to take a tutorial on how 
> to do it with my Smarterthanitsowner Phone.  At any rate, I finally located 
> the bird making its directionless chirp from a dead juniper branch.  Soon it 
> was fed by an adult female.  This went on for some time: chirping, occasional 
> visits from the adult.  After one of these feedings (when my 
> dumberthanitsownerwhenitsverylowlight camera wouldn't autofocus, dammit) the 
> adult calmly went over a few feet AND SAT ON A NEST!!  I did not know 
> about this nest.  Furthermore, this was not a nest that still contained the 
> sibling of fledged Youngster #1.  This was a pristine nest and the adult 
> female was obviously sitting low as if on eggs or getting ready to produce 
> eggs.
> 
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> 
> Left photo shows fledged young hummingbird.  Right photo shows this bird 
> being fed by parent female (lower leftmost bird in photo).
> 
>   
> 
> Same female as involved in the feeding shown above sitting on new nest about 
> 5 feet from where the feeding took place.
> 
> Earlier in the visit today I was shown a nest in a backyard just east of the 
> cemetery that had a sitting female.  In Section D of the cemetery I knew of a 
> nest that had just experienced egg hatch.  What I found today were two 1 
> day-old young attended by no female hummer but rather the kinds of insects 
> that eat carrion.  Both these nests are more evidence that second-brooding is 
> ongoing but do not constitute the proof that the situation in the first 
> paragraph and photos does. 
> 
> So, I think this verifies what I've been trying to prove for many years.  The 
> "Birds of North America" account for this species of hummer, which says 
> double-brooding does not occur at high elevation in the mountains but is 
> suspected at low elevation but unproven, was written based on information 
> mostly gathered at Gothic, CO (i.e. near the upper altitudinal range for this 
> species).  Maybe in Gothic at present two broods are not possible or normal, 
> but I think at 5000 feet ASL it is happening and has probably been happening 
> for a long time.
> 
> Dave Leatherman
> Fort Collins
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[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 8 July 2017

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date:July 8, 2017

This is the Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, July 7\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 changes.

Cackling Goose (Saguache)
Trumpeter Swan (Archuleta)
Wood Duck (Kiowa)
Bufflehead (Weld)
Barrow’s Goldeneye (Chaffee)
Chukar (Moffat)
Gunnison Sage-Grouse (*Gunnison)
White-tailed Ptarmigan (Boulder)
Dusky Grouse (Moffat)
Greater Roadrunner (Las Animas)
Black Swift (Boulder)
Sandhill Crane (Delta, Garfield,  Moffat)
Long-billed Curlew (Kiowa)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Jackson)
Solitary Sandpiper (Douglas)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Weld)
Common Loon (Delta, Ouray)
WHITE IBIS (Adams)
Mississippi Kite (El Paso, Las Animas)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (Jefferson)
Red-headed Woodpecker (Adams, Jefferson, Kiowa, Las Animas)
Acorn Woodpecker  (*La Plata)
Williamson’s Sapsucker  (Boulder, Jefferson, Larimer, Moffat, Pueblo,
Teller)
American Three-toed Woodpecker (Custer, Gunnison, Moffat)
Least Flycatcher (Mesa)
Black Phoebe (Boulder)
Eastern Phoebe (*Jefferson, Larimer)
Cassin’s Kingbird (El Paso)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Baca, Rio Grande)
Bell’s Vireo (Pueblo)
Purple Martin (Las Animas)
Curve-billed Thrasher (*El Paso)
Northern Mockingbird (Ouray)
White-winged Crossbill (Moffat, Summit)
McCown’s Longspur (Larimer)
Grace’s Warbler (Mesa)
BAIRD’S SPARROW (Larimer)
Fox Sparrow (Boulder, Custer, Larimer, San Juan)
Summer Tanager (Las Animas, Montezuma)
Indigo Bunting (Kiowa)
Painted Bunting (Baca)
Dickcissel (Alamosa, Boulder, Conejos, Costilla, *Douglas, El Paso,
Larimer, Rio Grande, Saguache)
Bobolink (Larimer)
Orchard Oriole (Broomfield)

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.  On July 2, at Lowell Ponds (Clear Creek  Valley Park), Alison Hixson
and Larry Modesitt reported WHITE IBIS.  On July 4, at Lowell Ponds SWA
(across I-76 From Clear Creek Valley Park), the WHITE IBIS was reported by
Brian Tavernia, Cheryl Teuton, Dan Brook, and Jean Olson.

ALAMOSA COUNTY:
---On July 3 on CO 370 .75 miles east of Rio Grande County, Dave Hawksworth
reported 5 Dickcissels.

ARCHULETA COUNTY:
---On July 3, a Trumpeter Swan was reported by Jan Allen at Pinon Lake
Reservoir.

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 July 4 at Picture Canyon, Brandon Nooner reported m
Painted Bunting.
---On July 4 a Scissor-tailed Flycatcher was reported by Brandon Nooner on
CR J between Picture Canyon and Campo.

BOULDER COUNTY:
---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.
---On July 3 at 75th and Boulder Creek, Bill Rowe reported Black Phoebe.
---On July 4 a Dickcissell was reported by Michell Puplava at Teller Farm.
On July 5 at Teller Farm N after irrigation bridge along irrigation canal,
Mary and Dave Driscoll reported 3 Dickcissel (2m, 1 f).
---On July 6 at Arapaho Pass, Dave Hallock reported White-tailed Ptarmigan
and 2 Fox Sparrow.

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 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).  On July 2 at Sands Lake SWA, Glenn Gade reported 2
Barrow’s Goldeneye (1 ad m, 1 subadult m).  On July 4 at Sands Lake SWA, a
m Barrow’s Goldeneye was reported by Christain Hagenlocher, David and Tammy
McQuade.

CONEJOS COUNTY:
---On June 30 on Hwy 15 about 1.75 miles west of US 285, Dave Hawksworth
reported 5 singing Dickcissels.

COSTILLA COUNTY:
---On July 5 at CR 18 and CR F, Kathy Mihm Dunning reported 11 Dickcissel.
---On July 6 on CR 12 N of Smith Reservoir, John