Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date:August 6, 2017
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, August 6 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 (Weld)
Trumpeter Swan (Routt)
Northern Bobwhite (Arapahoe)
White-tailed Ptarmigan (Boulder, Ouray)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Larimer)
Greater Roadrunner (Otero)
Black Swift (Boulder)
Semipalmated Plover (*El Paso, Larimer)
Long-billed Curlew (Boulder, Weld)
Stilt Sandpiper (*El Paso, Larimer, Weld)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Larimer, Weld)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (*El Paso, Larimer)
Solitary Sandpiper (Montrose, Weld)
Black Tern (*El Paso, Weld)
Common Loon (Ouray)
Mississippi Kite (Weld)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (Custer, *Mesa)
Red-headed Woodpecker (Adams, *El Paso, Otero, San Miguel)
Williamson’s Sapsucker (Pueblo)
American Three-toed Woodpecker Boulder, Gunnison, *Larimer, Ouray)
Gray Flycatcher (Boulder, Fremont)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (*Morgan)
Chihuahuan Raven (Kiowa, Otero)
Pacific Wren (Boulder)
Veery (Gilpin)
Curve-billed Thrasher (*El Paso)
Brown-capped Rosy-Finch (Boulder,Ouray)
White-winged Crossbill (Ouray)
McCown’s Longspur (Larimer)
Yellow-throated Warbler (Pueblo)
Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Otero)
Lark Bunting (Chaffee, Gunnison)
Fox Sparrow (San Juan)
Summer Tanager (Baca, Montezuma)
Indigo Bunting (Kiowa)
Dickcissel (Boulder, *El Paso)
Bobolink (Boulder)
ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On July 30 at Cherry Creek Valley Ecological Park, Cynthia Madsen and
David Hill reported Northern Bobwhite. On August 3 at Cherry Creek Valley
Ecological Park, Linda Czarny reported Northern Bobwhite.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On July 30 at Rocky Mountain NP, Wild Basin, Frank Farrell, Aaron Shipe,
Peter Burke reported Black Swifts, American Three-toed Woodpeckers and
Pacific Wren. On July 31 at Rocky Mountain NP, Wild Basin, Ander Buckley
and Baxter Beamer reported 7 Black Swifts, American Three-toed Woodpecker
and Pacific Wren.
---On July 30 at Fourth of July Campground and Trail, Luke Pheneger
reported 4 White-tailed Ptarmigan, 2 Fox Sparrows (slate-colored) and 4
Brown-capped Rosy-Finch.
---On August 1 on S Boulder Creek Trail, Jeff Parks reported Gray
Flycatcher.
---On August 2, Luke Pheneger reported 3 Long-billed Curlews at Lagerman
Reservoir.
CHAFFEE COUNTY:
---On July 31 at Clear Creek Reservoir, Doug Kibbe and Mackenzie Goldthwait
reported 3 m Lark Buntings.
CUSTER COUNTY:
---On July 31 NE of Wetmore, Bez Bezuidenhout reported 6 Lewis’s
Woodpeckers.
EL PASO COUNTY:
---On August 3 at Ramah Reservoir SWA, Alan Versaw reported Semipalmated
Plover, 3 Red-headed Woodpecker, and 4 Dickcissels. On August 5 at Ramah
Reservoir SWA, Robb Hinds reported Stilt Sandpiper, Semipalmated Sandpiper
and Black Tern; John Drummon reported Stilt Sandpiper, 2 Black Terns, and 2
Dickcissel.
---On July 30 at Hanover Fire Station, Tanja Britton reported 2
Curve-billed Thrashers.
---On August 5 at Hanover Road, Diane Roberts reported 3 Curve-billed
Thrashers.
FREMONT COUNTY:
---On July 31 at Red Canyon Park, Bez Bezuidenhout reported 2 Gray
Flycatchers.
GILPIN COUNTY:
---On August 2 on Lower Apex Valley Road, Kathy Mihm Dunning and Tony
Leukering reported Veery.
GUNNISON COUNTY:
---On August 1 (Colorado Day) on Brush Creek Trail, Phil Lyon reported Lark
Bunting (Colorado State Bird).
LARIMER COUNTY:
---On July 31 at Wellington SWA, Cobb Lake Unit, Cheri Phillps reported
Yellow-billed Cuckoo. On August 1 at Wellington SWA Cobb Lake Unit, David
Wade heard Yellow-billed Cuckoo.
---On July 30 at Soapstone Prairie NA, Mike McCloy reported 6 McCown’s
Longspurs.
---On July 31 at Topminnow NA (East Horsetooth Gravel Pit), Nick Komar and
David Wade reported 2 Stilt Sandpipers.
---On August 2 at Duck Lake, Nick Komar and Walter Wehtje reported
Semipalmated Plover, Pectoral Sandpiper and Semipalmated Sandpiper.
---On August 3 at Lory State Park, Libby Edwards reported a pair of
American Three-toed Woodpeckers
along Overlook Trail.
---On August 6 at Bobcat Ridge NA, Nick Komar and Walter Wehtje reported
f-type American Three-toed Woodpecker 2 miles up Ginny Trail.
MESA COUNTY:
---On August 5 at Vega Reservoir and Vega SP, Ronda Woodward and Deb
Stegall reported Lewis’s Woodpecker.
MONTROSE COUNTY:
---On August 1 at Buckeye Reservoir, Coen Dexter reported 2 Solitary
Sandpipers.
MORGAN COUNTY:
---On August 3 along Hwy 34 at old rest area by turn off to Jackson Lake,
Cole Wild reported Scissor-tailed Flycatcher.
OTERO COUNTY:
---On August 2 on Higbee Valley Road, Baxter Beamer reported Greater
Roadrunner, 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers and 4 Chihuahuan Ravens.
---On August 2 in Vogel Canyon, Baxter Beamer reported Rufous-crowned
Sparrow.
OURAY COUNTY:
---On July 31on Mount Sneffels Summit via Blue Lakes, Jason Wilder reported
