[cobirds] Bird Conservancy Banding Report - Barr Lake Station, 9/29/18

[Meredith . McBurney]

Hard to adjust to this cold weather after such a warm month!  My fingers 
were freezing during the first hour or so, but my great team of Saturday 
volunteers got the early birds - mostly warblers and kinglets - in and out 
in record time.  38 new birds plus another 21 recaps made for a busy 
morning, which we shared with Hugh and Urling's Beginning Birder class from 
Denver Audubon.  Breakdown of the 38 new birds:

Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5
Orange-crowned Warbler 9
Yellow-rumped Warbler, Audubon's 7
Yellow-rumped Warbler, Myrtle 1
Wilson's Warbler 4
Chipping Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 2
Lincoln's Sparrow 2
White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's 7

We are open 6 days per week, Tuesday-Sunday, weather permitting, through 
October 14. We are opening nets at 6:50 and should have birds back at the 
station by 7:30. We will close most days by about 11:30. School groups 
arrive most weekdays at about 9:30. The best time to visit (fewest people, 
most birds) is before 9:30 weekdays and Sundays. 

Come visit!

Meredith McBurney
Bander
Barr Lake Station
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies

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[cobirds] Cherry Creek Res--Black-bellied Plovers

[Ben S]

Hi -
I saw the two Black Bellied Plovera at prairie loop just a couple hours later. 
Ben Sampson 
Centennial, CO 

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[cobirds] Update on Vermillion Flycatcher

[Peter Burke]

COBirders,
Unfortunately the bird was only seen by a handful of birders for 2-3
minutes before it flew off to the Northwest. We spent several hours trying
to relocate the bird without any luck.

I've attached two distant photos to the eBird checklist here
.

Good birding,
Peter



Peter Burke

5590 Spine Rd. #204 Boulder, CO 80301

(973) 214-0140

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[cobirds] Cherry Creek Res--Black-bellied Plovers

[Robert Righter]

Hi all:

>From the  observation area in the south west corner there were two juvenile 
>Black-bellied Plovers. One with white spotting on its black and the other with 
>gold spotting on its back.

Other notes of interest:
3-4 Snowy Egrets
1 Great Egret
3-4 juvenile, Black-crowned Night-Herons

Plus lots of Boats, all sizes and shapes

Bob Righter
Denver CO

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[cobirds] Connected Lakes State Park Banding Update

[Adam Cupito]

Hi everyone, I've just wrapped up the second week of banding at Connected 
Lakes State Park in Grand Junction. Hot and dry weather has once again 
persisted throughout the week, although the past few days have shown a 
slight increase in bird activity. I banded 75 birds of 16 species over the 
past 6 days, including 2 returning Spotted Towhees from 2017 and a 
White-crowned Sparrow (Gambel's) from 2017. I also banded a Gray Vireo on 
9/24, which is the latest Colorado record for this species according to 
eBird! The following species account represents the effort of 260 net hours 
at this site.

White-crowned Sparrow (Gambel’s): 23

Wilson's Warbler: 12

Spotted Towhee: 6

Orange-crowned Warbler: 5

Song Sparrow: 5

White-crowned Sparrow (Mountain): 4

Bushtit: 4

Virginia's Warbler: 2

Bewick's Wren: 2

Green-tailed Towhee: 2

MacGillivray's Warbler: 2

Warbling Vireo: 2

House Sparrow: 2

Gray Vireo: 1

Townsend's Warbler: 1

Juniper Titmouse: 1

Chipping Sparrow: 1

Spotted Towhee - 2 returns from 2017

White-crowned Sparrow (Gambel’s) - 1 return from 2017

Hurricane Rosa is anticipated to bring some much needed rain to the Grand 
Valley this coming week, and with it will hopefully be some interesting 
migrants! I'll be operating the station every weekday until October 12th, 
so feel free to visit!

Adam Cupito
Bird Conservancy of The Rockies


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[cobirds] Bird Conservancy Banding Report Chico Basin Ranch - 9/29/18

[Kim Geissler]

Things were pretty busy at the banding station around 8 am, and then 
activity decreased. I was excited to band the season's second Blue Jay. 
Other than that I had the typical species. The totals for the day were 37 
new birds of 11 species. Including recaps, I caught 50 birds of 13 species.

Here's the summary of newly banded birds for the day:
Wilson's Warbler: 11
Ruby-crowned Kinglet: 9
Orange-crowned Warbler: 1
Chipping Sparrow: 2
Dusky Flycatcher: 1
Dark-eyed Junco: 5 (3 Oregon, 2 Pink-sided)
Hermit Thrush: 4
Western Tanager: 1
Gray Catbird: 1
Blue Jay: 1
Brown Thrasher: 1

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

Kim Geissler
Bander
Chico Basin Ranch Station
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies

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[cobirds] VERMILLION FLYCATCHER, Boulder

[Peter]

I just had a male Vermillion Flycatcher at cottonwood marsh. It’s moving around 
quite a bit on perching toward the back of the marsh.

>From Peter's iPhone

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[cobirds] Adams Co.: Chestnut-sided Warbler, First Creek

[Michael Lester]

Hi All,

I just found a Chestnut-sided Warbler along First Creek in a clump of willows 
about 370m NW of where the creek crosses Buckley Rd. 

Coordinates:
Latitude: 39.807637 
Longitude: -104.794332

No luck with the Yellow-throated Warbler yet.

Michael Lester
Littleton

Sent from my iPhone

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[cobirds] Yard birds, Sep 29, 2018

['arvind panjabi' via Colorado Birds]

Nothing spectacular but a few interesting birds in the yard today, here on 
Milner mountain, SW of Fort Collins.


Sep 29, 2018
8:16 AM
Stationary
26 Minutes
All birds reported? Yes
Comments: Submitted from eBird for iOS, version 1.7.4 Build 36

2 Eurasian Collared-Dove
1 Black-chinned Hummingbird
3 Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay
3 Black-billed Magpie
2 Black-capped Chickadee
1 American Robin
3 European Starling
5 Evening Grosbeak
2 House Finch
1 Pine Siskin
3 Lesser Goldfinch
2 White-crowned Sparrow (Gambel's)
13 Spotted Towhee
6 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's)
1 Townsend's Warbler

Number of Taxa: 15

Arvind Panjabi
Fort Collins

Sent from my iPhone


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[cobirds] Long-eared Owls in Wellington/Cobb Lake area

[Natalie P.]

Does anyone have any pointers for locating these birds?
I'm hoping to get out there this weekend.

Thanks!
Natalie

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[cobirds] Sandhill Cranes overhead ~ 5:20pm - Broomfield

[Denise GW]

Did anyone else notice them? There was a large group of Sandhill Cranes 
flying very high overhead just to the west of Broomfield, traveling 
southward in a long line. The sound is what really caught my attention!

--Denise Gonzalez-Walker
  (Broomfield, CO)

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[cobirds] Yellow - throated Warbler - 1st Creek=Adams and Denver

[birdingbreitsch]

Flying from one side of Buckley Road to the other near the creek. Last seen in 
the cottonwood just south of the creek on the adams/West side

John Breitsch 
Denver 

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[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 29 September 2018

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org

This is the Date: September 29, 2018

Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, September 29 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 (Garfield, *Larimer)
Mexican Duck (Larimer)
Bufflehead (Park)
Common Goldeneye (Chaffee)
Red-breasted Merganser (Huerfano, Park)
Northern Bobwhite (*Larimer)
Horned Grebe (*Adams, Park)
Common Nighthawk (Boulder, Park, Prowers)
Virginia Rail (Boulder, La Plata)
Sora (*Eagle, *Larimer)
Sandhill Crane (*Jefferson)
Black-necked Stilt (*Delta)
American Avocet (Huerfano, Park)
Black-bellied Plover (Alamosa, *Larimer, Morgan)
Semipalmated Plover (Alalmosa, Park)
Marbled Godwit (Larimer)
Sanderling (Alamosa, Kiowa, Larimer)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Bent)
Pectoral Sandpiper (*Boulder, *La Plata, *Larimer)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Costilla, *Larimer)
Western Sandpiper (Park)
Spotted Sandpiper (*Eagle)
Solitary Sandpiper (Las Animas, Washington)
Willet (Washington)
Red-necked Phalarope (Park)
Red Phalarope (El Paso)
Sabine’s Gull (Costilla, Larimer, Park)
Herring Gull (Costilla)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Alamosa)
Great Black-backed Gull (Douglas)
Caspian Tern (Washington)
Black Tern (Pueblo)
Common Tern (Kiowa, Park)
American Bittern (Kiowa)
Great Egret (*Delta, Garfield, Weld)
Snowy Egret (*Adams, *Boulder)
White-faced Ibis (Boulder, Park, Washington)
Mississippi Kite (Prowers)
Broad-winged Hawk (*Larimer, Pueblo, *Weld, Yuma)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (La Plata)
Red-headed Woodpecker (*Denver, Yuma)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Yuma)
Williamson’s Sapsucker (*Mesa)
Red-naped Sapsucker (El Paso, *Larimer, Montrose)
Least Flycatcher (Pueblo)
Hammond’s Flycatcher (Montrose)
Gray Flycatcher (El Paso)
Dusky Flycatcher (Cheyenne, El Paso, *La Plata, Montrose, Pueblo)
Cordilleran Flycatcher (Larimer, Montezuma)
Black Phoebe (La Plata, Montrose)
Eastern Phoebe (Pueblo)
Cassin’s Kingbird (Cheyenne, Denver, Pueblo)
Eastern Kingbird (Larimer)
Loggerhead Shrike (El Paso)
Cassin’s Vireo (El Paso, Yuma)
Plumbeous Vireo (*La Plata)
Philadelphia Vireo (El Paso)
Warbling Vireo (Boulder, El Paso)
Red-eyed Vireo *Boulder)
Steller’s Jay (Archuleta, Larimer, Pitkin)
Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay (Archuleta, *La Plata, *Mesa, Montezuma, Montrose,
Pitkin)
Common Raven (*Adams)
Tree Swallow (Archuleta)
Bank Swallow (Mesa)
Cliff Swallow (Archuleta)
Juniper Titmouse (*La Plata)
Bushtit (*La Plata, Larimer, *Mesa)
Rock Wren (El Paso, Grand, Mesa, Montrose)
SEDGE WREN (Pueblo)
Marsh Wren (*Adams, Arapahoe, Mesa, Pitkin, Pueblo)
Bewick’s Wren (Las Animas, Montrose, Pueblo)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (*Arapahoe, Boulder, El Paso, Hinsdale, Jefferson,
*Larimer, Phillips, Pueblo, Washington, *Weld)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (*Adams, El Paso, San Juan)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (*Adams, Archuleta, Boulder, Cheyenne, *El Paso,
Huerfano, La Plata, *Larimer, *Moffat, Montrose, Pueblo, *Weld)
Eastern Bluebird (Yuma)
Mountain Bluebird (Archuleta, Broomfield, Grand, *Mesa, Park, *Weld)
Swainson’s Thrush (*Denver, El Paso, *Moffat, *Weld)
Hermit Thrush (*Adams, *Arapahoe, *El Paso, *Larimer, *Moffat, Pueblo,
*Weld)
Gray Catbird (Summit)
Curve-billed Thrasher (El Paso)
Brown Thrasher (El Paso, Pueblo)
Sage Thrasher (Archuleta, El Paso, Hinsdale, Huerfano, Montrose)
American Pipit (*Adams, Archuleta, El Paso, *Larimer, Park, Pueblo)
Lesser Goldfinch (Pitkin)
Chestnut-collared Longspur (El Paso, Park, Pueblo)
McCown’s Longspur (El Paso)
Canyon Towhee (El Paso, Pueblo)
American Tree Sparrow (Denver)
Chipping Sparrow (El Paso)
Clay-colored Sparrow (*Arapahoe, Cheyenne, El Paso, *Larimer, Yuma)
Brewer’s Sparrow (Archuleta, Boulder, La Plata, Montrose)
Lark Sparrow (*Eagle, Hinsdale)
Sagebrush Sparrow (Archuleta, Montrose)
Lark Bunting (El Paso)
Savannah Sparrow (El Paso, *Larimer, Lincoln, Pueblo)
Fox Sparrow (San Juan)
Lincoln’s Sparrow (*Adams, *Arapahoe, Archuleta, Boulder, El Paso,
Huerfano, La Plata, *Larimer, *Moffat, Pitkin, *Weld, Yuma)
White-throated Sparrow (Adams, El Paso, Huerfano, Larimer)
Orchard Oriole (Yuma)
Rusty Blackbird (Arapahoe)
Northern Waterthrush (Douglas, La Plata)
Prothonotary Warbler (Boulder)
Nashville Warbler (La Plata, *Moffat)
Blackpoll Warbler (Jefferson, Phillips)
Palm Warbler (Yuma)
Yellow-throated Warbler (Park)
Black-throated Gray Warbler (El Paso, Montezuma)
Townsend’s Warbler (El Paso)
Lazuli Bunting (Boulder, Pueblo, Yuma)
Indigo Bunting (Kiowa, Pueblo, Yuma)

ADAMS COUNTY:
---On September 25 at Barr Lake Banding Station, Colin Woolley banded
Hermit Thrush and 4 Lincoln’s Sparrow.  On September 26 at Barr Lake
Banding Station, Colin Woolley reported 3 Hermit Thrush and 2 Ruby-crowned
Kinglet.  On September 27 at Barr Lake Banding Station, Meredith McBurney
banded Rock Wren, Marsh Wren,