Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date:February 24, 2018
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, February 24 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.
Greater White-fronted Goose (El Paso, Washington, Weld)
BRANT (Arapahoe)
Trumpeter Swan (Fremont, Yuma)
Wood Duck (Prowers)
Greater Scaup (Weld)
White-winged Scoter (Arapahoe, Jefferson)
Long-tailed Duck (Montezuma)
Barrow’s Goldeneye (Adams, Arapahoe, El Paso, Montezuma, Weld)
Red-breasted Merganser (Montezuma)
Clark’s Grebe (Fremont)
Greater Roadrunner (El Paso)
Sandhill Crane (Mesa, Pueblo, Rio Grande)
Spotted Sandpiper (Arapahoe, Mesa)
Mew Gull (Weld)
California Gull (Mesa)
Iceland Gull (El Paso, Pueblo)
Great Black-backed Gull (Pueblo)
YELLOW-BILLED LOON (Arapahoe, Jefferson)
Double-crested Cormorant (Pueblo)
American White Pelican (Weld)
Osprey (Larimer)
Northern Goshawk (Jefferson)
HARRIS’S HAWK (Larimer)
Swainson’s Hawk (Prowers)
Snowy Owl (*Boulder)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Washington)
Chihuahuan Raven (Fremont)
Pygmy Nuthatch (Broomfield)
Winter Wren (Archuleta, Morgan)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Denver)
Eastern Bluebird (Washington)
Mountain Bluebird (Weld)
Hermit Thrush (Washington)
Gray Catbird (Arapahoe)
Northern Mockingbird (Adams)
Common Redpoll (Arapahoe, Denver)
Red Crossbill (Arapahoe)
Lapland Longspur (Douglas)
Field Sparrow (Baca)
Sagebrush Sparrow (Mesa)
Fox Sparrow (*Delta, *Larimer)
Lincoln’s Sparrow (*La Plata, Mesa)
Swamp Sparrow (*Arapahoe, Boulder)
White-throated Sparrow (Arapahoe)
Harris’s Sparrow (Arapahoe, El Paso)
Brown-headed Cowbird (El Paso, Weld)
Rusty Blackbird (Morgan)
Pine Warbler (Larimer)
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Arapahoe, Archuleta, Jefferson, Larimer, Mesa,
Prowers, Pueblo)
Northern Cardinal (Prowers)
ADAMS COUNTY:
---On February 18 at Big Dry Creek OS, David Ely reported Northern
Mockingbird.
---On February 18 at South Platte River Sand Creek mouth, Riley Morris
reported Black Phoebe. This would be new county record if accepted.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On February 18 at South Platte Reservoir, Anna Lenshek reported
YELLOW-BILLED LOON. On February 19 at South Plate Reservoir, Alan and
MaryLynne Ketcham reported YELLOW-BILLED LOON and Derek Lecy reported
White-winged Scoter and YELLOW-BILLED LOON. On February 20 at South Platte
Reservoir, David Suddjian reported White-winged Scoter and YELLOW-BILLED
LOON. Suddjian reported that the SW Bay was frozen. On February 22 at
South Platte Reservoir, David Suddjian, Cheri Phillips, Norm Lewis, and Ted
Uhlemann reported White-winged Scoter.
---On February 20 at South Platte Park, Ben Sampson reported Yellow-rumped
Warbler near Nature Center. On February 22 at South Platte Park Carson
Nature Center, Bill Schreitz reported 2 f Barrow’s Goldeneyes and 5
Yellow-rumped (Audubon’s) Warblers in trees NE side of bicycle bridge.
---On February 18 at Ketring Park, Cheryl Teuton and several other birders
reported BLACK BRANT. The BRANT was also seen at neighboring Gallup Park.
On February 19 at Ketring Park, Alan and MaryLynne Ketcham reported
BRANT. On Februaory 22 at Ketring Park, Diane Roberts reported Swamp
Sparrow.
---On February 18 at Chapel Hill Memorial gardens, Jared Del Rosso reported
Harris’s Sparrow.
---On February 18 at Gallup Park in Littleton, Jared Del Rosso and
Christian Hagenlocher reported BLACK BRANT.
---On February 18 at St Mary’s Catholic Church lower area, David Suddjian
reported Say’s Phoebe
---On February 21 at Centennial Park, Edward Donnan reported Spotted
Sandpiper.
---On February 21 at Hawley Road, Doug Kibbe reported 18 Common Redpoll.
---On February 22 at Inverness Golf Course, Mary O’Connor reported 33 Red
Crossbills.
ARCHULETA COUNTY:
---On February 18 on San Juan River Walk in Pagosa Springs, Ryan Votta
reported Yellow-rumped Warbler and Jim Beatty reported Winter Wren.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On February 20 and 21 at Pleasant View Soccer Field, Ernest Crvich
reported Swamp Sparrow.
---On February 23 on Nelson Road, Sue Riffe reported a juv Snowy Owl flew
over the road flying NW. She was about a mile east of US 36.
DELTA COUNTY:
On February 23 at Paonia Forest Service Office feeder, Dennis Garrison
reported that the Fox Sparrow continues.
DENVER COUNTY:
---On February 21 near DIA on Hudson Road, Doug Kibbe reported 2 Common
Redpoll.
---On February 22 at Denver Botanic Gardens and Cheesman Park, Rebecca
Laroche reported 2 Golden-crowned Kinglets.
DOUGLAS COUNTY:
---On February 19 at Chatfield SP Model Airplane Field, Doug Kibbe reported
Lapland Longspurs. Doug warned that there is no access to Chatfield from
Wadsworth because of construction. On February 22 Tom Wilbering and Diane
Roberts reported Lapland Longspur at Chatfield SP Model Airplane Field.
EL PASO COUNTY:
---On February 21 at Monument
