[cobirds] Vermillion at Walden - Boulder County

[BCO gal]

The Vermillion Flycatcher was there as of 6:00 Monday night. Still in the field 
east of the parking lot. 

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[cobirds] Parasitic jaeger, Cherry Creek State Park

[Karl Stecher Jr.]

 
 At about 1 PM, an adult parasitic jaeger was flying low over the marina.  
It circled multiple times for altitude, then drifted south  I could not 
follow it in the clouds.  Multiple looks for about 5 minutes observation 
time.
  
 Karl Stecher
 Aurora
  

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[cobirds] Bird Conservancy Banding Report Chico Basin Ranch - 10/1/18

[Kim Geissler]

Bird activity was relatively slow today. I caught the first two Northern 
Flickers of the season. One was a Yellow-shafted male and the other was a 
Red-shafted female. The totals were 30 birds banded of 9 species, plus 5 
recaps from earlier in the season.

Here's the summary of newly banded birds for the day:
Wilson's Warbler: 11
Ruby-crowned Kinglet: 5
Lincoln's Sparrow: 1
Hermit Thrush: 4
Song Sparrow: 4
Western Tanager: 1
Gambel's White-crowned Sparrow: 1
Northern Flicker: 2
Brown Thrasher: 1

You are welcome to visit the banding station. The last day of the season is 
Friday, October 5th. This week I'm opening nets at 7:00 and banding until 
12:00 weather permitting.

Kim Geissler
Bander
Chico Basin Ranch
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies

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[cobirds] Vermillion at Walden - Boulder County

[Randy Siebert]

Vermillion Flycatcher seen again on October 1 from around 9:00 to 10:15 by 
various birders. Same general area as on 9/30. Field east of parking lot. Was 
moving quite a bit but generally staying on the wire fences. Never came too 
close.
Say’s Phoebe in same area for awhile.
Two Pectoral Sandpipers were showing off nicely.

Randy Siebert
Lafayette, CO

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[cobirds] Cattle Egrets, Boulder County

[Peter Burke]

COBirders,
A pair of Cattle Egret  were hanging out with
some cows just north of Boulder Reservoir, in a field at the NE corner of
55th and Monarch Rd.

Good Birding,
Peter

Peter Burke

5590 Spine Rd. #204 Boulder, CO 80301

(973) 214-0140

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[cobirds] Weld County Birding Fun

['The "Nunn Guy"' via Colorado Birds]

Hi all

It was quite a fun day of birding in/around the Pawnee NG yesterday 
highlights being:

   - Brown Thrasher, Mountain Bluebird [Lone Tree Creek and Weld CR 100]
   - Sandhill Crane - 150+ [Weld CR 116 and Hwy 77 Playa]
   - Peregrine and Prairie Falcon (same time!) hunting shorebirds, 
   longspurs and horned larks [Weld CR 116 and Hwy 77 Playa]
   - Lapland Longspur 50-60+ in plowed field coming to water [Weld CR 116 
   and Hwy 77 Playa]
   - Sage Thrasher - 4 [Weld CR 102 btw 100 and 102]

Photos (first 69): 
http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/albums/browse-photos

Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn
http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/

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[cobirds] Dusky Flycatchers, CSR, EL Paso Co, Mon

[Steven Brown]

Hey COBirders,

I banded 2 late juv Dusky Flycatchers this morning at Clear Spring Ranch. 

You can tell it is fall. Cool, cloudy, leaves are changing, White-crowned 
Sparrows outnumber Chipping Sparrows, Orange-crowned Warblers and Ruby-crowned 
Kinglets outnumber Wilson’s Warblers, flocks of Blue Jays moving S, and the new 
eBird filters for October went into place. 

They didn’t like the DUFLs, the 50 Chipping Sparrows I saw (banded 12), or the 
4 Wilson’s Warblers I banded. Oh well, How else are they going to learn?
Lotsa Mountain and Gambell’s White-crowned Sparrows today, and daily high 
numbers (and season) for RC Kinglets.

It has been quite a fall already. Today I passed 2000 birds processed at CSR 
since August 6, and I took a week off!

(Some of you know I was in Alaska, St Paul Island with Wilderness Birding last 
week. Yup - I was there to see all of those reported ABA Rare Birds - Solitary 
Snipe, Common Rosefinch, Red-flanked Bluetail, Gray-streaked Flycatcher, 
Brambling (5), White-tailed Eagle, Gray-tailed Tattler (2), Common Snipe (5), 
Eurasian Wigeon, Tufted Duck, and missed Curlew Sandpiper by hours. It was 
quite the week! You gotta think about a Fall Pribs trip!)

Can’t wait to see who shows up tomorrow!

Steve Brown
Colo Spgs

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[cobirds] Gunnison Island Pelicans Are On The Move – Help Out By Reporting Wing Tagged American White Pelicans

[Mark Amershek]

Attention - Something to keep an eye out for. This was taken from a blog 
posting I get daily from a photographer friend in Utah:

Gunnison Island in the Great Salt Lake is the home to one of the largest 
breeding colonies of American White Pelicans in North America and right now 
those pelicans are on the move to their wintering grounds. Some of the 
pelicans have already migrated and some are still hanging around freshwater 
areas like Farmington Bay WMA and Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge.

Fifteen American White Pelicans from Gunnison Island have been fitted with 
small backpacks that transmit their location every couple days. Some of 
those pelicans have already migrated to California, Arizona, New Mexico, 
Colorado, Kansas and Mexico. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources has 
set up a web site where the pelicans with those devices can be tracked, it 
is called PeliTrack. I like going there just to see where these pelicans 
are at least once a week during their migration.

The American White Pelicans banded and wing tagged from Gunnison Island 
will have a green tag with a white alphanumeric code. On September 24th I 
saw and photographed an American White Pelican resting at Glover Pond that 
had green wing tags with the alphanumeric code 90K on it, I reported my 
sighting to both John Neill at johnne...@utah.gov and reportband.gov

The pelican I reported was banded and wing tagged on Gunnison Island on 
July 19, 2018 when it was too young to fly. I wonder where this pelican 
will go for the winter and if I will ever see it again, even if I don’t 
perhaps someone else will and will report the sighting too.

So what is needed to report a banded and wing tagged American White Pelican?

Date, location, tag code, tag color, code color and it would be awesome if 
photos were included, quality doesn’t matter as long as the tag and code is 
visible, then report that information to John Neill at johnne...@utah.gov 
and/or reportband.gov.  It is really that simple.

The data that these sightings provide help biologists understand the 
movements and life history of our American White Pelicans. Bird 
photographers, birders, nature watchers and citizen scientists can help out 
by reporting all banded birds including our Gunnison Island American White 
Pelicans.

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[cobirds] Possible Eastern Wood-pewee (Boulder county: northeast Boulder)

[Bryan Guarente]

I had the good fortune of a wood-pewee showing up outside my office window
this morning (3085 Center Green Drive, northeast Boulder).  Took some poor
digibinned photos (in linked checklist below).

I found this bird to lean more towards Eastern than Western Wood-pewee.
Because this is an immature bird, I am hesitant of the colorations since it
is a hatch-year bird.

   - Strong buffy wingbars of equivalent brightness to each other.
   - Long primaries compared to tail.
   - Coloration of back and head seemed more brownish (dirty) than grayish
   (rather than ashy).
   - Vested look is much more like Olive-sided Flycatcher than the washed
   out Western Wood-pewee I am used to. This individual showed a distinct
   open-vested look with an obvious white stripe down its chest.
   - When viewed from below, the undertail coverts seemed more yellowy, and
   less smudged than I have seen previously with Western Wood-pewee.
   - Maxilla dark.
   - Mostly yellow mandible (70-80%).
   - Eyering.
   - Crested look at times.
   - No tail flicking.

Bird still present as of 11:10am.
Along the railroad tracks west of Center Green 2 (3085 Center Green Drive).

Here is my eBird checklist if anyone needs to see the photos.
https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48866030

Feel free to refute this claim as well as this would be a first for me in
terms of differentiating.  Seen plenty of both species, just never found
one in the "others territory".

Bryan Guarente
Meteorologist/Instructional Designer
UCAR/The COMET Program
Boulder, CO

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[cobirds] Possible Gray-cheeked Thrush at First Creek

[john haycraft]

Possible GCTH at Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR - First Creek.  Bird was found 
in the cottonwoods running east of the fence corner near the pond at the 
end of the path (along dirt road).  Distinctly different thrush from Hermit 
Thrush seen at trail start on east side of road ten minutes later.  
No rufous in tail/rump.  Slight rufous in primaries.  Extremely thin eye 
ring (Hermit was bolder).  Very gray flanks.  Dull back (the Hermit was 
much warmer).  Throat had a yellow wash.  Bill was yellow at base with a 
dark tip (halfway) on top and bottom of bill.  Bird did not call, but it 
did allow for long, fairly close looks - not shy.  Bird eventually flew 
southwest across pond.  Would love it if other birders could confirm.  

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[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 1 October 2018

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
 Date:  October 1, 2018

This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Monday, October 1 sponsored by
Denver Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.

Note that the RBA is using the new AOU checklist.
Rare and out of range species for the last seven days include: (*indicates
new information on this species)

Snow Goose (*Prowers)
Cackling Goose (Larimer)
Tundra Swan ((Prowers)
Wood Duck (Eagle)
Cinnamon Teal (*Kiowa, Larimer, *Summit)
Mexican Duck (*Larimer)
Canvasback (*Boulder)
Bufflehead (*Boulder)
Common Goldeneye (Clear Creek)
Barrow’s Goldeneye (Clear Creek)
Northern Bobwhite (Larimer)
White-tailed Ptarmigan (*El Paso)
Horned Grebe (*Adams)
Band-tailed Pigeon (Boulder)
White-throated Swift (*El Paso)
Virginia Rail (*Boulder, *Broomfield, Denver, *Weld)
Sora (*Broomfield, Eagle, Larimer)
American Avocet (Custer)
Sandhill Crane (El Paso, Jefferson, *Kiowa, *Prowers, Pueblo, Weld)
Black-necked Stilt (Delta)
Black-bellied Plover (Arapahoe, Larimer, Morgan)
Semipalmated Plover (*Kiowa)
Long-billed Curlew (*Kiowa)
Marbled Godwit (Larimer)
Stilt Sandpiper (*Kiowa)
Sanderling (Kiowa, Larimer)
Pectoral Sandpiper (*Boulder, *Kiowa, La Plata, Larimer, *Weld)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (*Boulder, Larimer)
Western Sandpiper (*Kiowa)
Short-billed Dowitcher (*Kiowa)
Long-billed Dowitcher (*Kiowa)
Spotted Sandpiper (Eagle)
Solitary Sandpiper (Boulder, Las Animas)
Willet (Washington)
Red Phalarope (*Montezuma)
Jaeger Spec (*Jefferson)
Sabine’s Gull (Larimer)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (*Kiowa)
Great Black-backed Gull (Douglas)
Caspian Tern (Washington)
Black Tern (Pueblo)
Common Tern (Kiowa)
YELLOW-BILLED LOON (*Summit)
American Bittern (Kiowa)
Great Egret (*Adams, Arapahoe, Delta, *Kiowa, Weld)
Snowy Egret (*Adams, Arapahoe, *Boulder, *Kiowa)
Cattle Egret (*Kiowa)
Broad-winged Hawk (Boulder, El Paso, *Kiowa, Larimer, Pueblo, Weld)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (La Plata)
Red-headed Woodpecker (*Denver)
Williamson’s Sapsucker (*Fremont, Mesa, Summit)
Red-naped Sapsucker (*El Paso, *Fremont, *Gilpin, Larimer)
Western Wood-Pewee (*Jefferson, Boulder)
Least Flycatcher (*Kiowa)
Gray Flycatcher (El Paso, *Fremont, Pueblo)
Dusky Flycatcher (Boulder, La Plata)
Cordilleran Flycatcher (Larimer, Montezuma)
Black Phoebe (La Plata)
Eastern Phoebe (*Douglas, Pueblo)
Vermilion Flycatcher (*Boulder)
Cassin’s Kingbird (Denver, Pueblo)
Western Kingbird (*Kiowa)
Eastern Kingbird (Larimer)
Loggerhead Shrike (Pueblo)
Gray Vireo (Mesa)
Cassin’s Vireo (*Fremont, *Kiowa)
Plumbeous Vireo (La Plata)
Philadelphia Vireo (*Kiowa)
Warbling Vireo (Boulder, Mesa)
Red-eyed Vireo (Boulder, *Kiowa)
Canada Jay (*El Paso)
Steller’s Jay (El Paso, *Fremont, *Gilpin, *Larimer, Ouray, Summit)
Blue Jay (El Paso)
Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay (*Douglas, El Paso, *Fremont, La Plata, *Larimer,
*Mesa, Montezuma)
Clark’s Nutcracker (*El Paso, *Gilpin, Summit)
Common Raven (Adams)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Mesa)
Juniper Titmouse (El Paso, La Plata, Mesa)
Bushtit (El Paso, *Fremont, La Plata, *Mesa)
Brown Creeper (*Kiowa)
Rock Wren (*El Paso, *Kiowa, *Mesa)
SEDGE WREN (*Kiowa)
Marsh Wren (Adams, Arapahoe, *Broomfield, *Mesa, Pueblo)
Bewick’s Wren (Las Animas, Mesa, Pueblo)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Arapahoe, Boulder, *Broomfield, El Paso, *Fremont,
*Kiowa, Larimer, Phillips, Washington, Weld)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (Adams, San Juan)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Adams, Boulder, *Broomfield, *Denver, El Paso,
*Fremont, *Gilpin, *Kiowa, La Plata, *Larimer, Moffat, Pueblo, *Weld)
Eastern Bluebird (*Larimer)
Mountain Bluebird (Adams, *Broomfield, Denver, El Paso, *Larimer Mesa, Weld)
Gray-cheeked Thrush (*Adams)
Swainson’s Thrush (Denver, Moffat, Pueblo, Weld)
Hermit Thrush (Arapahoe, *Denver, El Paso, *Kiowa, *Larimer, Moffat,
Pueblo, Weld)
Wood Thrush (Pueblo)
Curve-billed Thrasher (El Paso)
Brown Thrasher (El Paso, *Kiowa)
Sage Thrasher (El Paso)
Northern Mockingbird (*Mesa)
American Pipit (Adams, Custer, *El Paso, *Kiowa, Larimer)
Red Crossbill (Clear Creek, *Gilpin)
Lapland Longspur (*Kiowa)
Chestnut-collared Longspur (El Paso, Pueblo)
McCown’s Longspur (El Paso, Larimer)
Canyon Towhee (El Paso)
Chipping Sparrow (El Paso)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Arapahoe, El Paso, *Kiowa, Larimer, *Prowers)
Brewer’s Sparrow (Boulder, El Paso, Larimer
Field Sparrow (*Kiowa)
Lark Sparrow (Eagle)
Sagebrush Sparrow (*Mesa, Montrose, Ouray)
Savannah Sparrow (*Adams, *Boulder, El Paso, *Kiowa, Larimer, Lincoln,
Pueblo)
Grasshopper Sparrow (*Kiowa)
Fox Sparrow (*Boulder, San Juan)
Lincoln’s Sparrow (*Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, *Broomfield, *Douglas, El
Paso, *Fremont, *Gilpin, Jefferson, *Kiowa, Larimer, Moffat, *Pitkin,
Pueblo, Weld)
White-throated Sparrow (*Kiowa, *Larimer)
Orchard Oriole (Yuma)
Northern Waterthrush (Douglas, La Plata)
Black-and-white Warbler (Pueblo)
Prothonotary Warbler (Boulder)
Orange-crowned Warbler (El Paso, *Kiowa)
Nashville Warbler (La Plata, *Larimer, Moffat)
Magnolia Warbler (Boulder, Custer)
Yellow Warbler (*Weld)