Date: Friday September 27
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 )
American Golden Plover (*Adams )
Sabine’s Gull (Multiple reports in several counties; see COBirds for updates)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Larimer)
Eastern Phoebe (Custer )
Baird’s Sparrow (Kit Carson)
SPRAGUE's PIPIT (Weld )
LUCY's WARBLER (Montezuma )
Prothonotary Warbler (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 Meredith McBurney.
__On September 25 a American Golden Plover was reported at Barr Lake by Robert Righter .
ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
—On September 26 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
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 26 a Nashville Warbler was reported at Belmar Park . First reported on September 21 by Art Hudak.
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 26 the sub adult male BROAD-BILLED
HUMMINGBIRD continues at a home in Palisade . 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 .
WELD COUNTY:
----On September 25 a SPRAGUE's PIPIT was reported by Edward Raynor at the Central Plains Experimental Range , Pawnee NG .
---On September 25 a Magnolia Warbler was reported by Keith Lott at Crow Valley CG /Pawnee NG .
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