Date: Thursday September 26
Compiler: John Drummond jxdrummo AT aol.com
Birders have been helpful by reporting updates to COBirds. Thanks!
CAPITAL LETTERS denote very rare species, as listed by the Colorado Bird Records Committee at the CFO website.
(*) indicates new information on a species.
For more information on birds seen today, go to cobirds.org and scroll to the bottom for “Recent eBird Sightings”.
Rare, out-of-place and out-of-season species include:
BROAD-BILLED HUMMINGBIRD (* Mesa )
Sabine’s Gull (Multiple reports in several counties; see COBirds for updates)
Arctic Tern (Weld)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Larimer)
Eastern Phoebe (*Custer )
GRAY FLYCATCHER (Arapahoe, Montrose, Washington, Weld)
Baird’s Sparrow (Kit Carson)
SPRAGUE's PIPIT (*Weld )
Ovenbird (Prowers)
LUCY's WARBLER (*Montezuma )
Prothonotary Warbler (Jefferson, Larimer)
Nashville Warbler (*Jefferson ,*Arapahoe )
Hooded Warbler (*Arapahoe)
Black-throated Blue Warbler (Adams )
Magnolia Warbler (*Weld )
ADAMS COUNTY:
—On September 21 a Black-throated Blue Warbler was banded at the Barr Lake Banding Station by Merideth McBurney.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
—On
September 25 a Hooded Warbler was reported at Lee Gulch Trail,
approximately 50 ft from Mineral. First reported on Sep.20 by Santiago
Taberas.
---On September 25 a Nashville Warbler was reported by David Suddjian at Littleton , St Mary's Catholic Church
—On September 20 a GRAY FLYCATCHER was reported at Cherry Creek SP/Railroad Bed Trail by Meg Reck.
CUSTER COUNTY
----On September 24 a Eastern Phoebe was reported by Patrick O'Driscoll's group at Greenwood Road (Custer CR389 ).
JEFFERSON COUNTY:
—On
September 25 a Nashville Warbler was reported at Belmar Park . First reported on September 21 by Art
Hudak.
—On
September 20 a Prothonotary Warbler was reported at Belmar Park, on the
southwest side of Kountze Lake. First reported on Sep.18 by Alicia
Arnold.
KIT CARSON COUNTY:
—On September 21 a Baird’s Sparrow was reported in Bethune, at 13175 CR 37, by David Tønnessen.
LARIMER COUNTY:
—On
September 23 a Prothonotary Warbler was reported at the CSU
Environmental Learning Center.First reported by Jay Breidt on Sep. 22 . It was located in the far SE corner of the ELC.
—On
September 22 a Yellow-billed Cuckoo was reported at the private
residence of Ken Allen. He lives in neighborhood east of Warren Lake at 2719 Ticonderoga Drive.
He is OK with birders stopping by although the bird disappeared from
the cottonwood. He got onto it because of a vocalization it made. It
could still be in general area, so be sure to use your ears!
MESA COUNTY
--
On September 25 the immature male BROAD-BILLED HUMMINGBIRD was reported by many observers at a home in Palisade
. Sightings were spread throughout the day from 11:00 to dusk , often with gaps of an hour or so between occurrences .The bird is being observed not only at the feeders but also at the honeysuckle flowers below the porch , in the elm and ponderosa pine and the the juniper near the entrance to the porch.The home owner
Gene Byrne and his wife are welcoming to visitors but have requested that visits now be restricted to between 3 pm and dusk. The address is 566
36 Road (East Orchard Mesa ), Palisade . The house is at the end of a
long driveway just across from the fire station . Gene's house is on the
right side of the drive . You can park north of the house and easily
walk on to the deck/porch that is on the west side of the house
overlooking the pond . The porch is in shade until about 3 pm and the
majority of the sightings since Friday have been between 2:30 and 6:30
pm.
This would be the fourth state record , the first in 2002 was also in Mesa County.
MONTEZUMA COUNTY
----ON September 25 a LUCY's WARBLER was reported by Carol Bylsma at 28850 Road T.5 81323 Dolores .
MONTROSE COUNTY:
—On September 21 a Grey Flycatcher was reported at Nucla WTP by Brenda Wright and Coen Dexter.
PROWERS COUNTY:
—On
September 20 an Ovenbird was reported at Lamar Community College Woods
by Dave Leatherman. It was seen under Russian-olives at the extreme
north end just where the trail starts heading south at the bottom of the
entry hill.
WASHINGTON COUNTY:
—On September 22 a GRAY FLYCATCHER was reported at a Last Chance Rest Area by Steve
Arson.
WELD COUNTY:
—On September 20 an Arctic Tern was reported at Union Reservoir by Steve Mlodinow.
----On September 25 a SPRAGUE's PIPIT was reported by Edward Raynor at the Central Plains Experimental Range , Pawnee NG .
—On September 20 a GRAY FLYCATCHER was reported at Pawnee National Grassland/Norma’s Grove by Gene Rutherford.
---On September 25 a Magnolia Warbler was reported by Keith Lott at Crow Valley CG /Pawnee NG .
Boulder County
Monday, September 23
6:30 AM - 1:00 PM
South-Central Colorado
Tuesday, September 24
5:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Writer's Vista Park to McClellan Reservoir
Saturday, September 28
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Kettle Lakes
Sunday, September 29
6:15 AM - 1:00 PM
Happy birding!
John Drummond ;jxdr...@aol.com