Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, July 6, 2013

[Ira Sanders]

Compiler: Ira Sanders

Date        July 6, 2013

email:      rba AT cobirds.org

phone:     303-659-8750

 

This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, July 6, 2013  sponsored by the Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message, you can skip the recording by pressing the star key (*) on your phone at any time. Please leave your name, phone number, detailed directions including county, and dates for each sighting. It would be helpful if you would spell your last name.

 

Highlight species include (* indicates new information on this species in this report):

 

Pacific Loon (*El Paso)

TRICOLORED HERON (*Fremont)

REDDISH EGRET (*Kiowa)

Green Heron (*Fremont)

LAUGHING GULL (*El Paso, Crowley)

SANDWICH TERN (Teller)

White-winged Dove (Garfield)

Greater Roadrunner (Adams)

ACORN WOODPECKER (Pueblo)

BROWN-CRESTED FLYCATCHER (Alamosa)

Black Phoebe (Fremont)

 

ADAMS COUNTY:

--Sanders reported a Greater Roadrunner at Barr Lake State Park on the entrance road between the entry station and Picadilly Road on July 3.

 

ALAMOSA COUNTY:

--A BROWN-CRESTED FLYCATCHER was reported by Pitcher on private property near Mosca on June 29.  It has not been seen since.

 

BOULDER COUNTY:

--On June 29, Morton reported singing Ovenbirds in Skunk Canyon.

 

CROWLEY COUNTY:

--On June 29, Dowell reported a 1st summer LAUGHING GULL at Lake Henry.

 

EL PASO COUNTY:

--A non-breeding ad LAUGHING GULL was reported by Peterson on June 28 in the SE corner of Big Johnson and was seen again on July 6 by Goff.

--On July 6, Goff reports that the Pacific Loon continues at Big Johnson.

 

FREMONT COUNTY:

-- On June 29, Moss reported Black Phoebes near the MacKenzie parking area of the Canon City Riverwalk.

-- On July 5, Moss reported that the ad TRICOLORED HERON was at Holcim wetlands and one Green Heron was seen by Moss at Holcim on July 5.

 

GARFIELD COUNTY:

-- Dahl reports a White-winged Dove at his feeder in Rifle on July 2.

 

KIOWA COUNTY:

-- On July 5 and July 6  Nelson reports a white morph REDDISH EGRET at Adobe Creek Reservoir 200 yards east of the easternmost camping unit in the SE part of the lake.

 

PUEBLO COUNTY:

--On June 29, the Boulder Audubon Field trip organized by Piombino to Pueblo Mountain Park saw at least 3 ACORN WOODPECKERS (2m, 1 f).

 

TELLER COUNTY:

--On June 27 Linfield reported a breeding plumaged SANDWICH TERN at Manitou Lake.  This would be a new state record if accepted.  On June 28, Jeff Jones reported that the SANDWICH TERN returned to Manitou Lake.  Manitou Lake is north of Woodland Park on Hwy 67.  Approximately 6.5 miles north of Hwy 24.  The tern was last reported on June 30.

 

DFO FIELD TRIPS:

No trips are scheduled for Sunday, July 7 due to large number of weekday trips this month.

 

Good Birding,

Ira Sanders

Golden, CO