Joyce Takamine <jabi...@gmail.com>: Oct 12 04:23AM -0600
Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date: October 12, 2018
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Friday, October 12 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 is new)
Greater White-fronted Goose (*Arapahoe)
Cinnamon Teal (*Mesa)
Mexican Duck (Huerfano)
Bufflehead (*Arapahoe, Huerfano, *Larimer, Mesa)
Horned Grebe (Montrose)
Northern Bobwhite (Larimer)
Virginia Rail (Huerfano, Larimer, Weld)
Sandhill Crane (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, * Jefferson, Larimer)
Sanderling (*Boulder)
Least Sandpiper (*Montrose)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Boulder, La Plata)
Spotted Sandpiper (*Jefferson, *Larimer)
Solitary Sandpiper (Las Animas)
Red-necked Phalarope (Boulder)
Parasitic Jaeger (Boulder)
Sabine’s Gull (Jefferson, Larimer)
Bonaparte’s Gull (Larimer)
WESTERN GULL (*Arapahoe)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Boulder)
Great Black-backed Gull (Douglas)
Forster’s Tern (Boulder, La Plata)
Red-throated Loon (*Adams)
Common Loon (Jefferson, Larimer)
Double-crested Cormorant (Teller)
Great Egret (Larimer)
Snowy Egret (La Plata)
Cattle Egret (Boulder, *Douglas, *Jefferson)
White-faced Ibis (Garfield, Montrose)
Osprey (Summit)
Broad-winged Hawk (*Boulder, *El Paso, *Larimer)
Swainson’s Hawk (*Weld)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (*Boulder, La Plata)
Williamson’s Sapsucker (Montezuma, Montrose, Summit)
Red-naped Sapsucker (*Boulder, Larimer, Mesa, Summit, *Weld)
Western Wood-Pewee (Jefferson)
American Kestrel (Adams)
Peregrine Falcon (Jefferson)
Hammond’s Flycatcher (Mesa, Montezuma)
Gray Flycatcher (El Paso, Mesa)
Dusky Flycatcher (Montrose)
Cordilleran Flycatcher (Eagle, Larimer, Mesa, Montezuma)
Black Phoebe (La Plata)
Eastern Phoebe (Boulder,*Douglas, Huerfano, Jefferson)
Vermilion Flycatcher (*Boulder)
TROPICAL KINGBIRD (Jefferson)
Mystery Kingbird (Larimer)
Cassin’s Kingbird (Adams, Denver, Larimer)
Western Kingbird (Jefferson)
Eastern Kingbird (Larimer)
Northern Shrike (Larimer)
Gray Vireo (Mesa)
Cassin’s Vireo (Boulder, La Plata)
Plumbeous Vireo (*Boulder)
Steller’s Jay (Clear Creek, Eagle, Summit, Teller)
Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay (*Boulder,*Douglas, Huerfano, *Jefferson, La Plata,
Mesa, Montrose)
American Crow (*Weld)
Juniper Titmouse (La Plata, Montrose)
Bushtit (Boulder, La Plata, *Larimer)
Brown Creeper (Mesa)
Rock Wren (Boulder, Huerfano, *Larimer, Montrose)
House Wren (*Jefferson)
Winter Wren (*Douglas)
Marsh Wren (Arapahoe, Larimer, Mesa)
Bewick’s Wren (Huerfano, *Mesa, Montrose, Pueblo)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (*Douglas, *Mesa)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (San Juan, San Miguel)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Adams, *Boulder, Clear Creek, *Douglas, *El Paso,
Huerfano, *Jefferson, La Plata, *Larimer,*Mesa, Montrose, San Miguel,
Summit, *Weld)
Mountain Bluebird (*Boulder, Denver,*Douglas, Larimer, *Mesa, *Montrose,
Park, Rio Grande)
Hermit Thrush (Adams, *Boulder, *Jefferson, *Larimer, Mesa, Summit, *Weld)
Gray Catbird (Routt)
Brown Thrasher (*Larimer)
Sage Thrasher (Huerfano, Larimer, Park, Rio Grande)
Northern Mockingbird (Park)
American Pipit (*Boulder, Huerfano, *Larimer, Montrose, Park, Summit, Weld)
BRAMBLING (*Denver)
Green-tailed Towhee (*Boulder, Clear Creek, *Mesa, Weld)
Chipping Sparrow (El Paso)
American Tree Sparrow (Adams)
Clay-colored Sparrow (*Boulder, El Paso, Huerfano, Jefferson, Larimer, Weld)
Brewer’s Sparrow (*Boulder, Jefferson, Mesa)
Sagebrush Sparrow (*Montrose)
Savannah Sparrow (Huerfano, Larimer, Lincoln)
Vesper Sparrow (Archuleta, *Boulder, Clear Creek, *Mesa, Montrose, San
Miguel)
Lark Sparrow (Boulder, Eagle)
Fox Sparrow (San Juan)
Lincoln’s Sparrow (*Boulder, Eagle, Huerfano, *Jefferson, Kiowa, *Larimer,
Lincoln, Mesa, Montrose, Routt, San Miguel, Weld)
White-throated Sparrow (*Mesa)
Brewer’s Blackbird (*Summit)
Common Grackle (*Summit)
Orange-crowned Warbler (*Boulder, *Douglas, *El Paso, *Jefferson, *Larimer,
*Mesa, *Montrose, *Summit)
Nashville Warbler (La Plata, Mesa)
Virginia’s Warbler (*Mesa)
MacGillivray’s Warbler (*Boulder, *Jefferson, Mesa)
Common Yellowthroat (*Summit)
American Redstart (Boulder)
Northern Parula (*Boulder)
Magnolia Warbler (*Boulder)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (*Boulder, *Mesa)
Black-throated Blue Warbler (Clear Creek)
Palm Warbler (*Jefferson, *Larimer)
Black-throated Gray Warbler (El Paso, Montezuma)
Townsend’s Warbler (*Boulder, *Mesa)
Black-throated Green Warbler (*Jefferson, *Larimer)
Wilson’s Warbler (*Boulder, *Douglas, *Jefferson, *Larimer, *Mesa,
*Montezuma, Park, Summit, *Weld)
Western Tanager (*Boulder, La Plata, *Weld)
Indigo Bunting (Kiowa)
Painted Bunting (Kiowa)
ADAMS COUNTY:
---On October 9 at Barr Lake Banding Station, Meredith McBurney banded
American Kestrel, 8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and 2 Hermit Thrush.
---On October 8 at Rocky Mountain Arsenal Southern Lake Ladora, Orien
Richmond reported 200 Sandhill Cranes (Flyover), Cassin’s Kingbird, 5
American Tree Sparrows, and Lincoln’s Sparrow. On October 11 at Rocky
Mountain Arsenal NWR, Lake Ladora, Bob and Nancy Bierling reported
Red-throated Loon.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On October 8 at Aurora Reservoir, Cole Sage reported WESTERN GULL. On
October 9 at Aurora Reservoir, Gregg Goodrich reported WESTERN GULL. On
October 10 at Aurora Reservoir, Bill Schreitz and Diane Roberts reported
2000 Sandhill Cranes (Flyover), and WESTERN GULL. On October 11 at Aurora
Reservoir, Ben Sampson and Kevin Kern reported 2 Greater White-fronted
Goose, 2 Bufflehead, WESTERN GULL, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and Wilson’s
Warbler.
ARCHULETA COUNTY:
---On October 8 at Echo Canyon Lake SWA, Ben Bailey and Bryon Greco
reported 6 Vesper Sparrow.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On October 8 at Walden Ponds, David Ely, Will Anderson, David
Leatherman, Nathan Pieplow, Katie Lehman and David Haskell reported 4
Pectoral Sandpipers and Vermilion Flycatcher. The Vermilion was seen fly
catching over the water. On October 9 at Walden Ponds, Matthew Wistrand,
Bill Kaempfer, Phil Lyon, and Eva Matthews Lark reported 310 Sandhill Crane
(Flyover), 4 Pectoral Sandpiper, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 2 Clay-colored
Sparrow, and 4 Lincoln’s Sparrow. On October 11 at Walden Ponds, Peter
Burke and David Dowell reported Vermilion Flycatcher 6 Ruby-crowned
Kinglet, Clay-colored Sparrow, and 3 Brewer’s Sparrow.
---On October 8 at Lagerman Reservoir, David Ely, Frank Farrell, Dean
Shoup, David Dowell, Bob Fiehweg, Dave Leatherman, Tyler Wilson, and Eva
Matthews Lark reported Parasitic Jaeger, Lesser Black-backed Gull, and 3
Cattle Egret. On October 9 at Lagerman Reservoir, Raymond Sperger and
others reported Parasitic Jaeger and 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull. On
October 10 at Lagerman Reservoir, Boulder Bird Club, Logan Parr, and Luke
Phenger reported 2 Red-necked Phlarope, Parasitic Jaeger, 2 Lesser
Black-backed Gulls, and Forster’s Tern. On October 11 at Lagerman
Reservoir, James McCall reported Sanderling and 4 Mountain Bluebird.
--- On October 9 at Rabbit Mountain, Raymond Sperger reported 3
Clay-colored Sparrow and 2 Brewer’s Sparrow.
---On October 9 at Mesa Reservoir, Christian Nunes reported 803 Sandhill
Cranes (flyover), 2 Rock Wren, 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Hermit Thrush,
Vesper Sparrow, and Lincoln’s Sparrow.
---On October 9 on Mayhoffer Singletree Trail in Superior, Peter Ruprecht
reported 2 Cassin’s Vireo, 58 Mouuntain Bluebird, 2 Clay-colored Sparrow,
Lark Sparrow, Green-tailed Towhee, and Rock Wren.
---On October 9 on Coyote Run OS in Louisville, Ryan Bushong reported 65
Sandhill Cranes (flyover), Lewis’s Woodpecker and Hermit Thrush.
---On October 9 at Ryssby Church and Cemetery on N 63rd, David Dowell
reported 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, American Redstart, Chestnut-sided Warbler,
and Townsend’s Warbler. On October 10 at Ryssby Church and Cemetery, David
Dowell reported Chestnut-sided Warbler. On October 11 at Ryssby Church and
Cemetery, John Vanderpoel and Peter Gent reported Chestnut-sided Warberl,
Townsend’s Warbler, and Orange-crowned Warbler.
---On October 10 at Golden Ponds Park and NA, David Dowell reported Eastern
Phoebe and Magnolia Warbler.
---On October 10 at Centennial Trail – Dimmit Dr to Old Tale Rd, Bill
Kaempfer reported Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and Western Tanager.
---On October 10 at Prince Lake # 2, Ted Floyd reported 3 Pectoral
Sandpipers.
---On October 11 at Rabbit Mountain, Nathan Piplow and Okamota Kieta Sin
reported Green-tailed Towhee.
---On October 11 at S Saint Vrain Road in Lyons, Nathan Pieplow and Carl
Bendorf reported Broad-winged Hawk, Red-naped Sapsucker, 2 Lewis’s
Woodpeckers, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 44 Hermit Thrush, Palm Warbler
(Western), MacGillivray’s Warbler, Orange-crowned Warbler, 2 Wilson’s
Warbler, Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay, and 3 Lincoln’s Sparrow.
---On October 11 at Skunk Creek –Broadway to 27th St., David Dowell
reported 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 6 Orange-crowned Warbler, Northern Parula,
and Wilson’s Warbler.
---On October 11 at 1821 18th Ave, Bryan Guarente reported Plumbeous Vireo.
---On October 11 at Boulder Reservoir Complex, Christian Nunes reported 35
Mountain Bluebird, 2 American Pipit, 4 Vesper Sparrow.
DENVER COUNTY:
---On October 11 a block or 2 north of Denver Country Club, someone
reported to Denver Audubon a BRAMBLING has been visiting their back yard.
They do not want visitors so that is the reason for the vague location.
DOUGLAS COUNTY:
---On October 9 at Bayou Gulch, Mark Edwards reported Cattle Egret.
---On October 11 at Cherry Creek Trail S from Walker Road, Hugh Kingery
reported 3 Cattle Egret. On October 11 on Cherry Creek Trail South end to
Walker Road Gravel pond, Tim Ryan reported Eastern Phoebe, Woodhouse’s
Scrub-Jay, Winter Wren, 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 2
Mountain Bluebird, 3 Orange-crowned Warbler, and Wilson’s Warbler.
EAGLE COUNTY:
--- On October 9 at Sylvan Lake SP, Park Staff reported 7 Cordilleran
Flycatcher, Steller’s Jay, and Lincoln’s Sparrow.
EL PASO COUNTY:
---On October 11 at Fountain Creek Regional Park, Tanja Britton reported
Broad-winged Hawk, 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and 2 Orange-crowned Warbler.
GARFIELD COUNTY:
---On October 9 at Ponds near Rifle Garfield Airport, Dale and Karen Lumley
reported White-faced Ibis.
HUERFANO COUNTY:
---On October 8 at Lathrop SP, David Tonnessen reported Mexican Duck,
Virginia Rail, Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay, Bewick’s Wren, Ruby-crowned Kinglet,
American Pipit, 2 Clay-colored Sparrow, and 2 Lincoln’s Sparrows.
---On October 8 at Lake Maria, David Tonnessen reported 8 Bufflehead (1m,
7f), and Savannah Sparrow.
---On October 8 on Industrial Park Drive near Walsenburg, David Tonnessen
reported Eastern Phoebe, Rock Wren, and Sage Thrasher.
JEFFERSON COUNTY:
---On October 8 at W entrance road of S Platte Reservoir and nearby
buildings, Mark Miller, Tina Jones, John Rutenbeck, Robert Folzenlogen,
Jessi Oberbeck, and Kathy Mihm Dunning reported TROPICAL KINGBIRD. On
October 9 at W Entrance road of S Platte Reservoir, Tony Leukering, Bill
Kaempfer, John Vanderpoel, and Elaine Wagner reported TROPICAL KINGBIRD.
On October at W Entrance Road of S Platte Reservoir, David Suddjian and
Matt Crooks sreported TROPICAL KINGBIRD; Doug Kibbe and Mackenzie
Goldthwait reported Peregrine Falcon.
---On October 9 at Chatfield SP N Boat Ramp, Mark Chavez reported 2
Sabine’s Gull and Common Loon. On October 10 at Chatfield SP N Boat Ramp,
Matthew Wistrand reported 2 Sabine’s Gull, Common Loon, 2 Ruby-crowned
Kinglet, 2 Clay-colored Sparrow, and Brewer’s Sparrow.
---On October 10 east of where Tucker Gulch Trail meets Clear Creek Canyon
Trail, Golden, Lindsay Purifoy and Timo Mitzen reported 360 Sandhill Cranes
(Flyover), Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay, Clay-colored Sparrow, and 2 Palm Warbler.
---On October 11 at Lower White Ranch Park, Timo Mizen reported 41
Sandhill Cranes, Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay, House Wren, 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet,
Hermit Thrush, Lincoln’s Sparrow, Orange-crowned Warbler, and Wilson’s
Warbler.
---On October 11 at Bear Creek Lake Park, Mark Chavez reported 42 Sandhill
Crane, 2 Spotted Sandpiper, Cattle Egret, 9 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 3
Lincoln’s Sparrow, 7 Orange-crowned Warbler, MacGillvray’s Warbler,
Black-throated Green Warbler.
LA PLATA COUNTY:
---On October 8 at Pastorius Reservoir, Susan Allerton reported Pectoral
Sandpiper, Cassin’s Vireo, Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay, 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet,
and Western Tanager. On October 9 at Pastorius Reservoir, Susan Allerton
and David Dunford reported Forster’s Tern, Bushtit, Juniper Titmouse,
Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay, 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and Western Tanager.
LARIMER COUNTY:
---On October 7 at Wellington SWA, Andy Bankert and Nick Komar reported two
mystery kingbirds. One appears to be Cassin’s Kingbird and the other
perhaps Couch’s. On October 8 at Wellington SWA—Cobb Lake Unit, Andy
Bankert, Nick Komar, and David Wade reported Common Loon, Cassin’s Kingbird
and continuing mystery Kingbird (latest thought is that it is a possible
hybrid), Marsh Wren, Rock Wren, 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 15 American Pipit,
2 Lincoln’s Sparrow, 7 Orange-crowned Warbler. On October 10 at Wellington
SWA, Andy Bankert reported Northern Bobwhite, 300 Sandhill Cranes, Common
Loon, 2 Cassin’s Kingbird, mystery Yellow-bellied Kingbird, Rock Wren, 3
Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 5 Mountain Bluebird, 3 Hermit Thrush, 2 Sage
Thrasher, and 2 American Pipit.
---On October 8 at Rocky Mountain National Park, John Faber reported
Northern Shrike.
---On October 8 at Horseshoe Reservoir, Nick Komar reported American
Avocet, 2 Bonaparte’s Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, and 2 Great Egret.
---On October 8 at Timnath Reservoir, Nick Komar reported Sanderling.
---On October 9 at North Shields Pond NA, Doug Swartz reported Red-naped
Sapsucker, 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Hermit Thrush, and 3 Lincoln’s Sparrow.
---On October 11 at Greyrock Commons, Doug Swartz reported Ruby-crowned
Kinglet , Hermit Thrush, and Brown Thrasher.
---On October 11 at Arapahoe Bend NA RIgden Reservoir (Strauss Cabin Lake)
Jay Breidt reported Spotted Sandpiper and Sage Thrasher.
---On October 11 at Pleasant Valley and Lake Canal Greenbelt at W Lake St,
Nick Komar and Andy Bankert reported juv Broad-winged Hawk, Bushtit, 18
American Pipit, 2 Orange-crowned Warbler, 2 Wilson’s Warbler, and
Black-throated Green Warbler.
---On October 11 at Dixon Reservoir, Nick Komar reported 2 Bufflehead, Rock
Wren, 7 Lincoln’s Sparrow, 3 Orange-crowned Warbler, and Palm Warbler.
MESA COUNTY:
---On October 8 at Colorado River SP—Fruita Section, Adam Cupito and Carol
Ortenzio reported Red-naped Sapsucker, Hammond’s Flycatcher (banded), 2
Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay, Brown Creeper, MacGillivray’s Warbler (banded),
Chestnut-sided Warbler (banded).
---On October 9 at Connected Lakes SP, Adam Cupito reported Woodhouse’s
Scrub-Jay, 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Nashville Warbler (recapture),
Chestnut-sided Warbler (recapture), and 2 Townsend’s Warbler (banded). On
October 10 at Connected Lakes SP, Adam Cupito reported Woodhouse’s
Scrub-Jay, Bewick’s Wren, 9 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Hermit Thrush, Virginia’s
Warbler (recapture), Chestnut-sided Warbler (recapture), 3 Wilson’s Warbler
(banded).
---On October 9 at Horsethief Canyon SWA, Drew Kelly reported Cordilleran
Flycatcher, 3 Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay, Marsh Wren, Bewick’s Wren, 2
Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Hermit Thrush, and Brewer’s Sparrow.
---On October 9 at Grand Junction WA, Mike Henwood reported Gray
Flycatcher, 4 Marsh Wren, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Hermit Thrush, 3 Lincoln’s
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