Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: May 13, 2012
email:rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Birds Alert for Sunday, May 13, 2012, sponsored
by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If
you are phoning in a message,
Spent three hours at Walden Ponds. American Bittern as well as species
listed below.
Walden Sawhill Ponds (all together), Boulder, US-CO
May 13, 2012 9:58 AM - 12:58 PM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Comments: Overcast, mild temp
43 species (+1 other taxa)
Canada Goose 31 Including 8
A few of us saw the Worm-eating Warbler and a singing Northern Waterthrush at
the banding station at Chico Basin Ranch (fee area), El Paso County this
morning. Not much else going on there, few thrushes and catbirds, not many
warblers. At the Headquarter Willows at Chico Basin Ranch, Pueblo
Four of us gathered at Chico Basin Ranch, 1 from Tucson, 1 from Olympia, WA and
2 from Boulder to have a good, HOT weekend of birding. While the weather was
not exactly hot, the birding was good, not great, but good. With the help of
House Sparrows, we hit 100 species. Thanks to John
Birders,
Just a quick post on the best birds of the day:
Last Chance:
Baltimore Oriole (1st year male singing) (3 oriole day)
Ovenbird
MacGillivray's Warbler
Denver West:
Hairy Woodpecker
Welchester Tree Park:
Summer Tanager (male in molt)
Western Tanager
Ira Sanders
Diane I found a male and later a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak at Fountain
Creek Regional Park at about 11a Sunday 5/13. The male was in the north Area 3
in the trees along the channel between N Rice Pond and the old beaver dam. The
female was in the trees by the outlet of the sewage pond
Diane I found a male, and then later, a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak at
Fountain Creek Regional Park at about 11a Sunday 5/13. The male was in north
Area 3 in the trees along the channel between N Rice Pond and the old beaver
dam. The female in SE area 2 in the trees by the outlet of the sewage
Cobirds:
Here's what I saw for Saturday and Sunday within the
Boulder County limits. Thanks to the many people reporting the
rarities.
GC = Gregory Canyon area
CU = University of Colorado Research Ctr and Boulder Creek
BC = Boulder Creek near CU campus
WS = Walden Sawhills
BR =
Hi Everyone--
I spent all of this morning 5/13 at Crow Valley Campground. The thrush
fallout is mostly gone now, but a Veery, a Hermit Thrush, and about 8
Swainson's Thrushes remained. The warbler list consisted of Tennessee
Warbler (2 or 3 different birds), Northern Parula (2 singing birds),
Happy Mother's Day! Audubon celebrated with breakfast and birds for lots of
families - I'm guessing 75-100 visitors today. The birds decided to
cooperate - we had more birds, some quite interesting. Of particular note
were the Hooded Warbler and the Indigo/Lazuli Bunting Hybrid:
Least
Eight of us spent 4 days on the Comanche, mainly in Carrizo, Cottonwood,
Picture and Holt Canyons, as well as the Everett Ranch, where we stayed
overnights. We compiled a list of about 68 species, of which the highlights,
in the order we saw them, were: Loggerhead shrike - Everett Ranch
Driving by the corner of 79th Street at Lookout Road in Boulder County this
morning there were four Lark Buntings on the fence on the northeast side.
-Elena Klaver
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Sunday, about 10 AM, on a field trip near Lyons, 17 of us saw 2 sandhill
cranes circling high overhead 1 mile east of Hwy 36 between Boulder and
Lyons, on Hygiene Rd.
While both birds were obviously cranes, and almost certainly Sandhill
Cranes, one bird was at least 35% LARGER than the other. I
Today Nick Moore and I birdedr southeastern Colorado. At Jane Stulp's
there was a Veery and a Russet-backed Thrush, the west coast form of
Swainson's. There was a Black-throated Blue Warbler and a Nashville at
Lamar CC. At Temple Grove. there was an Eastern Towhee, found by Cheryl
and Dan,
After a strong thunderstorm with some small hail and lot of rain I was
delighted with a mini-fallout of neotropical birds (plus my neighborhood
catbirds): a female Rose-breasted Grosbeak and 2 male Black-headed
Grosbeak; 4+ Yellow-rumped Warblers (more than I have seen on our Riverwalk
all week);
On 5/12/2012, Deb Carstensen and myself saw some good birds at what used to be
Bonny State Park. The main obervation was that birds were not in quanity as I
thought they might be, [ We thought the rain the night before, might be cause
for more birds].There was variety in bird numbers
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