Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 15 May 2018

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler:   Joyce Takamine

Date:        May 15, 2018

e-mail:      RBA AT cobirds.org  

This is the Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, May 15 sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.

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

NOTE:  The RBA is now using the new AOU checklist and the order of families has changed.

Snow Goose (Arapahoe)

Greater White-fronted Goose (Larimer, Rio Grande)

Greater Prairie Chicken (Yuma)

Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Boulder)

Greater Roadrunner (Baca, *El Paso)

Common Nighthawk (*Weld)

White-throated Swift (Pueblo)

Virginia Rail (Chaffee)

Sora (Jackson, Montezuma)

Sandhill Crane (*Jefferson)

American Avocet (Teller)

Snowy Plover (Delta)

Whimbrel (Larimer)

Marbled Godwit (*Alamosa, Mesa)

Stilt Sandpiper (*Boulder)

Pectoral Sandpiper (Delta)

Long-billed Dowitcher  (Weld)

Willet  (*Alamosa, Jackson, Weld)

Wilson’s Phalarope (Kit Carson)

Red-necked Phalarope (Larimer)

Least Tern (Kiowa)

Black Tern (*Weld, Yuma)

Forster’s Tern (Adams)

Snowy Egret (*Alamosa, Delta)

Cattle Egret (Delta, Douglas, Jefferson, Montrose)

White-faced Ibis (Mesa, Weld)

Turkey Vulture (Douglas)

Mississippi Kite (*Baca, El Paso, *Prowers, Pueblo)

Broad-winged Hawk (*Larimer *Yuma)

Red-headed Woodpecker (Denver, El Paso, Kiowa)

Acorn Woodpecker (La Plata)

Ladder-backed Woodpecker (*Baca, *El Paso)

Olive-sided Flycatcher (*Boulder)

Western Wood-Pewee (Arapahoe)

Alder Flycatcher (El Paso, Yuma)

Willow Flycatcher (*Weld)

Least Flycatcher (*Boulder, *Weld)

Hammond’s Flycatcher (Weld)

Gray Flycatcher (*Boulder, Gunnison, Kit Carson, Weld)

Dusky Flycatcher (Montrose)

Cordilleran Flycatcher (Boulder)

Eastern Phoebe (Adams, Boulder, Jefferson, Yuma)

Vermilion Flycatcher (*Adams, Denver)

Ash-throated Flycatcher (El Paso, Weld)

Great Crested Flycatcher (Yuma)

Cassin’s Kingbird (*Adams, *Baca, Larimer)

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (*Alamosa)

Yellow-throated Vireo (*Boulder, Weld)

 Cassin’s Vireo (Bent, *Douglas, Larimer, *Weld)

Red-eyed Vireo (*Boulder, *Larimer, *Prowers, Weld, Yuma)

Gray Jay (Larimer)

Pinyon Jay (El Paso)

Chihuahuan Raven (*Baca)

Violet-green Swallow (Jefferson, Weld)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Moffat)

Cliff Swallow (Moffat)

Canyon Wren (Prowers)

SEDGE WREN (Yuma)

Marsh Wren (Gunnison)

Bewick’s Wren (El Paso)

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Kit Carson)

Golden-crowned Kinglet (Weld)

Eastern Bluebird (El Paso)

Veery (Larimer, Phillips, *Weld)

Hermit Thrush (El Paso)

Curve-billed Thrasher (*El Paso)

Northern Mockingbird (Arapahoe)

American Pipit (Kiowa)

Red Crossbill (Larimer, Pueblo, Yuma)

Chestnut-collared Longspur (*Weld)

EASTERN TOWHEE (Yuma)

Rufous-Crowned Sparrow (*Baca)

Chipping Sparrow (Logan, Montezuma)

Clay-colored Sparrow (*La Plata)

Lark Sparrow (El Paso)

Black-throated Sparrow (Alamosa, * Baca)

Lark  Bunting (*Boulder)

Grasshopper Sparrow (*Baca, *Boulder, Denver, Phillips)

Field Sparrow (Bent, Phillips)

White-throated Sparrow (*Boulder, Weld)

Harris’s Sparrow (Jefferson, Prowers, Yuma)

Golden-crowned Sparrow (Douglas)

Bobolink (*Boulder)

Brown-headed Cowbird (Kit Carson, Yuma)

Ovenbird (Weld)

Worm-eating Warbler (Larimer)

Northern Waterthrush (*Boulder, El Paso, La Plata, *Larimer, Pitkin, *Washington, Weld, Yuma)

Golden-winged Warbler (*Washington)

Black-and-white Warbler (*Garfield, *Prowers)

Prothonotary Warbler (*Washington)

Tennessee Warbler (Boulder, La Plata, Yuma)

Nashville Warbler (*Denver)

MOURNING WARBLER (*Prowers)

Hooded Warbler (*Boulder, Yuma)

CAPE MAY WARBLER (Boulder, Pueblo)

Northern Parula (*Prowers)

Chestnut-sided Warbler (El Paso, *Jefferson, *Prowers, Weld)

Blackpoll Warbler (Boulder, *Jefferson, Phillips, *Washington, Yuma)

Black-throated Blue Warbler (Weld)

Yellow-throated Warbler (Pueblo, *Washington)

Grace’s Warbler (Jefferson, Mesa)

Black-throated Gray Warbler (Boulder, Larimer, Pueblo)

Black-throated Green Warbler (*Washington)

Hepatic Tanager (Pueblo)

Summer Tanager (Boulder)

Northern Cardinal (*Prowers)

Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Archuleta, Boulder)

Blue Grosbeak (Boulder)

Lazuli Bunting (Arapahoe)

Indigo Bunting (El Paso, Larimer)

ACHULETA COUNTY:

---On May 12 at Deer Trail Aspen Springs, Bryon Greco reported Rose-breasted Grosbeak.

ADAMS COUNTY:

---On May 12 at Barr Lake SP on Neidrach Nature Trail and Visitor Center, Karen Drozda and Sandra Blair reported 3 Eastern Phoebe. 

---On May 13 at Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR First Creek, Dave Blue found a 1st year m Vermilion Flycatcher.  On May 14 at Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR First Creek, John Breitsch and Charlie Chase reported Vermilion Flycatcher.

---On May 14 at Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR Bluestem Loop Trail, Pablo Quezada reported Cassin’s Kingbird.

ALAMOSA COUNTY:

---On May 14 at San Luis Lake near Mosca, John Rawinski reported Marbled Godwit, Willets, and Snowy Egret.

---On May 14 1 mile east of unction of Hwy 17 and Lane 6N, John Rawinski reported juv Scissor-tailed Flycatcher.

ARAPAHOE COUNTY:

---On May 12 at Willow spring OS in Centennial, Jared Del Rosso reported Northern Mockingbird and Northern Waterthrush.

---On May 12 at High Line Canal and Little Dry Creek in Centennial, Jared Del Rosso reported Western Wood-Pewee and Lazuli Bunting.

BACA COUNTY:

---On May 12 in Carrizo and Cottonwood Canyon area, Dan Stringer reported Rufous-crowned Sparrow, Black-throated Sparrow, Grasshopper Sparrow, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Chihuahuan Raven, and Cassin’s Kingbird.

---On May 14 at Springfield (town), Tony Leukering reported Mississippi Kite.

BOULDER COUNTY:

---On May 12 at Boulder Creek at 75th, Pablo Quezada and Gabriel Wiltse reported Eastern Phoebe.

---On May 12 at CU Boulder, East Campus, Confluence Ponds and Skunk Creek area, Katie Lehman and David Haskell found a m CAPE MAY WARBLER which was seen by many birders; also seen were Northern Waterthrush, Yellow-throated Vireo, Black-throated Gray Warber, Summer Tanager, Least Flycatcher, Cordilleran Flycatcher, Olive-sided Flycatcher.  On May 13 at CU Boulder East Campus, Peter Burke and others reported Gray Flycatcher, Northern Waterthrush, CAPE MAY WARBLER, Yellow-throated Vireo, Summer Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak and Ernest Crvich and Willem Van Vliet reported Yellow-billed Cuckoo.  On May 14 at CU Boulder, East Campus, Bill Kaempfer reported Northern Waterthrush; John Vandepoel reported Gray Flycatcher and Northern Waterthrush; John Rutenbeck reported Yellow-throated Vireo, Northern Waterthrush and Least Flycatcher; Aaron Shipe reported Yellow-throated Vireo.

---On May 12 at Mayoffer Singletree Trail in Superior, Peter Ruprecht reported m Blackpoll Warbler; Michael Lester reported Tennessee Warbler, Gray Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, and m Rose-breasted Grosbeak.  On May 13 at Mayoffer Singletree Trail, Pablo Quezada reported Gray Flycatcher and Rose-breasted Grosbeak.

---On May 12 at Boulder Valley Ranch Trailhead, Steve Frye reported Blue Grosbeak.

---On May 12 at City of Boulder Open Space Cherryvale Office Area, Michelle Puplava and Alex Brown reported ad m Lark Bunting.

---On May 12 at Lagerman Reservoir, Dan Zmolek and Leslie S reported m Lark Bunting.

---On May 12 W of Niwot on N 79th S of CR 30, Kat Bradley-Bennett reported Eastern Phoebe.

---On May 13 at 5728-5898 Hygiene Road in Longmont, Christian Nunes reported Lark Bunting.

---On May 14 at Twin Lakes in Boulder, Mark Miller reported a m singing Hooded Warbler.

---On May 14 at Pella Crossing, Carl Starace reported 7 Bobolink and Grasshopper Sparrows.

---On May 14 at Green Mountain Cemetery, Bill Kaempfer reported Lark Bunting and Olive-sided Flycatcher.  

---On May 14 at Waneka Lake/Greenlee Preserve, Ted Floyd reported Least Flycatcher, Gray Flycatcher, and White-throated Sparrow.

---On May 14 at Golden Ponds Park and Nature Area, David Dowell reported 2 Red-eyed Vireos.

---On May 14 Walden/Sawhill Ponds, Chuck Hundertmark, Burke Angstrom, Tracy and Luke Pheneger, and Eric DeFonso reported Stilt Sandpiper.

DELTA COUNTY:

---On May 12 at Fruitgrowers Reservoir North Road Causeway, Jon Horn reported Pectoral Sandpiper.  On May 13 at Fruitgrowers Reservoir, Jim Wallis reported Snowy Egret, Cattle Egret, and pair of Snowy Plovers.

DENVER COUNTY:

---On May 13 at First Creek at DEN OS, Megan Miller and Jordon Spalding reported Red-headed Woodpecker and Vermilion Flycatcher.  On May 14 at First Creek at DEN OS, Meg Reck reported Nashville Warbler.

DOUGLAS COUNTY:

---On May 12 at McClain Gravel Pit, Bill Schreitz reported Cattle Egret.

---On May 12 at High Line Canal GCSP spot, Joey Kellner and Steve Stachowiak reported Golden-crowned Sparrow.  On May 13 on High Line canal Trail (39.527,-105.048), Joey Kellner and Glenn Walbek reported Golden-crowned Sparrow.

---On May 14 on Castlewood Canyon Road, Lake Gulch Road to Castlewood Canyon SP, Gloria Nikolai reported Cassin’s Kingbird.

EL PASO COUNTY:

---On May 12 at Chico Basin Ranch, Wooded Areas, Christine Alexander, Ginny Bergstrom, Rebecca Laroche, and Steve Mlodinow reported Ladder-backed Woodpecker and Ash-throated Flycatcher.  On May 13 at Chico Basin Ranch, Ken Burton banded another Hermit Thrush and reported Red-headed Woodpecker; Rebecca Laroche reported Ash-throated Flycatcher and Ladder-backed Woodpecker; Christina Leslie reported 2 Eastern Bluebirds.

---On May 12 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown reported Mississippi Kite, Alder Flycatcher, and Nothern Waterthrush; Alan Ketcham reported Mississippi Kite.  On May 13 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown reported that he banded 5 Northern Waterthrush and missed netting a m Indigo Buntin.

---On May 13 on Adams OS, Cynthia Kristensen reported 2 Mississippi Kites.

---On May 12 on Hanover Road, Christine Alexander reported Curve-billed Thrasher.  On May 13 on Handover Road, Alan Ketcham reported Ladder-backed Woodpecker.  On May 14 on Hanover Road, Alan Versaw reported Ladder-backed Woodpecker.

---On May 12 at Aiken Canyon Preserve, Heidi Eaton and David Tonnessen reported 7 Ash-throated Flycatchers and 5 Bewick’s Wrens.

---On May 12 at 3350 Turkey Canyon Ranch Road, Michelle Orlowske reported 2 Ash-throated Flycatcher and 2 Pinyon Jays.

---On May 12 on Fountain Creek Spring Count, Steve Getty reported Northern Parula, Chestnut-sided Warbler, and Northern Waterthrush.

---On May 13 in Fountain, Christina Leslie and Marry Geder each reported 2 Mississippi Kites.

---On May 14 on S Meridian Road from Hanover Road to Pueblo County Line, Alan Versaw reported Greater Roadrunner.

---On May 14 at Birdsall Road, Alan Versaw reported Curve-billed Thrasher.

---On May 14 at Hanover Fire Station, Jim Merritt and Terence Berger 3 Curve-billed Thrasher.

GARFIELD COUNTY:

---On May 14 at Storm King Fire Memorial Trail in Glenwood Springs, John Hogan reported Black-and-white Warbler.

GUNNISON COUNTY:

---On May 12 at McCabes Lane Wetland, Ian Souza-Cole reported 2 Marsh Wrens.

JEFFERSON COUNTY:

---On May 12 at Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms, Megan Miller reported Harris’s Sparrow.

---On May 12 at Belmar Park, Bill Eley, Myron Berhard, Pablo Queazda, and Gabriel Wiltse reported m Chestnut-sided Warbler.  On May 13 at Belmar Park, Michael Lester and Gary Ackert reported Chestnut-sided and Blackpoll Warblers; several other birders reported Chestnut-sided Warbler.  On May 14 at Belmar Park, Gwen Moore, Jessi Oberbeck, Tom Behnfield, Cathy Fennelly, and Renee Casias Chestnut-sided Warbler; Casias reported Blackpoll Warbler.

---On May 12 at 7285 Pierce St, Arvada, Reed Gorner reported 11 Cattle Egret.

---On May 14 at Standley Lake and Park, David Chernack reported Sandhill Crane.

KIOWA COUNTY

---On May 13 at Neenoshe Reservoir, Heidi Eaton reported Least Tern and 3 Red-headed Woodpeckers.

LA PLATA COUNTY:

---On May 12 at Pastorius Reservoir, Catherine Ortega and Mark Holmgren reported Northern Waterthrush.

---On May 13 at Oxbow Park and Preserve, Jason St Pierre reported Tennessee Warbler.  On May 14 at Oxbow Park and Preserve, Susan Allerton and Martin Cuntz reported Clay-colored Sparrow.

 LARIMER COUNTY:

---On May 12 at Equalizer Lake in Loveland, Jim Nachel, Pablo Quezada, David Wade, Lori Pivonka, Jeff Kehoe, and Josh Bruening reported Worm-eating Warbler; Bruening also reported Northern Waterthrush.  On May 13 at Equalizer Lake, Steve Rash reported Worm-eating Warbler.

---On May 12 for Big Day, Nick Komar reported Greater White-fronted Goose at CR 70 Pond; Black-bellied Plover at CR 9 Pond S of Wellington, Red-necked Phalarope at Morris Reservoir in Wellinton, and Northern Waterthrush at Lee Martinez Park.

---On May 12 at Wellington SWA Cobb Lake Unit, David Wade, Walter Wehtje, and Georgia Doyle reported Cassin’s Kingbird, Northern Waterthrush, and Black-throated Gray Warbler.  On May 13 at Wellington SWA Cobb Lake Unit, Nick komar, Lori Pivonka and Sean Walters reported Gray Flycatcher, Veery, Whimbrel, Black-throated Gray Warbler.

---On May 12 on NCR 11 North Poudre Reservoir #4, Georgia Doyle and Walter Wehtje reported Greater White-fronted Goose.

---On May 13 at Grandview Cemetery, Dave Leatherman reported Red Crossbills (Type 4).

---On May 13 at Frank SWA and Jode Reservoir, Caroline Olsen reported Cassin’s Vireo.

---On May 14 at Lee Martinez Park, Rob Sparks reported Broad-winged Hawk, Red-eyed Vireo, and Northern Waterthrush.

MESA COUNTY:

---On May 12 at John Brown Canyon, Ronda Woodward reported 4 Grace’s Warblers.

MONTROSE COUNY:

---On May 13, 0.5 mile south of Nucla Domestic Reservoir, Coen Dexter and Brenda Wright reported Cattle Egret.

PHILLIPS COUNTY:

---On May 12 in Holyoke (town), Nick Moore reported Veery, Blackpoll Warbler, Grasshopper Sparrow, and Field Sparrow.

PITKIN COUNTY:

---On May 12 at Placita River Bottoms, Ernie Bradley reported Northern Waterthrush.

PROWERS COUNTY:

----On May 13 at Lamar Community College, Dan Stringer reported Northern Cardinal, Mississippi Kites, Black-and-white Warbler, Red-eyed Vireo, Chestnut-sided Warberl, MOURNING WARBLER, Northern Parula.

PUEBLO COUNTY:

---On May 12 at Mineral Palace Park, Loch Kilpatrick reported 2 Yellow-throated Warblers, 4 Mississippi Kites and Black-throated Gray Warbler.

---On May 12 at Chico Basin ranch, Rose Pond, Steve Mlodinow reported m CAPE MAY WARBLER and Red Crossbill.

---On May 13 at Chic Basin Ranch Rose Pond, John Drummond, Rebecca Laroche, Gloria Nikloai, and Christina Leslie reported m Hepatic Tanager.

TELLER COUNTY:

---On May 12 at Manitou Lake, Mel and Jeanne Goff reported American Avocet.

WASHINGTON COUNTY:

---On May 12 at Last Chance, Ted Floyd reported Northern Waterthrush.

---On May 13 at Akron Golf Course pond, Mark Peterson reported Northern Waterthrush, Prothonotary Warbler, Blackpoll, Golden-winged Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler, and Black-throated Green Warbler.

WELD COUNTY:

---On May 12 at Crow Valley CG, Josh Bruening reported Common Nighthawk, Hammond’s Flycatcher, Gray Flycatcher, Cassin’s Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, Northern Waterthrush, 2 Blackpoll Warblers; Gene Rutherford reported Red-eyed Vireo.  On May 13 at Crow Valley CG Josh Bruening reported Cassin’s VIero,  Veery, Ovenbird, Chestnut-sided Warbler, White-throated Sparrow, and Golden-crowned Kinglet; John Cobb reported Golden-crowned Kinglet and Hammond’s Flycatcher; Gene Rutherford reported Chestnut-sided Warbler, Common Nighthawk, Red-eyed Vireo, and Cassin’s Vireo; Christ Goulart reported  Chestnut-sided Warbler.  On May 14 at Crow Valley CG, Dave Leatherman reported 3 Veery, 4 Least Flycatcher, and Common Nighthawk.

---On May 12 at Banner Lake SWA, Richard Homes Anderson reported Ash-throated Flycatcher.

---On May 12 at Norma’s Grove, Gene Rutherford reported Willow Flycatcher.  On May 13 at Norma’s Grove, Josh Bruening and Gene Rutherford reported Gray Flycatcher and Yellow-throated Vireo.

---On May 12 at Eaton Cemetery, Josh Bruening and Gene Rutherford reported Willow Flycatcher and Black-throated Blue Warbler.  On May 14 at Eaton Cemetery, Shawn Mason reported Cassin’s Vireo.

---On May 13 Gary Lefko and his Prairie Wonder of the Pawnee field trip reported Willow Flycatcher at Crow Valley, Black Tern at Stewart’s Pond, La Salle, 8 Chestnut-collared Longspurs—6 at CR 45 and CR 114, Nunn and 2 two miles north of above intersection.

YUMA COUNTY:

---On May 12 in Yuma (town), Nick Moore reported 7 Red Crossbills (Ponderosa Pine or Type 2).

---On May 12 at Wray Fish Hatchery, Nick Moore reported Black Tern, Eastern Phoebe, Great Crested Flycatcher, 2 Blackpoll Warblers, 2 EASTERN TOWHEE.

---On May 12 at Hale Ponds, David Dowell reported Alder Flycatcher, Harris’s Sparrow, Red-eyed Vireo, Northern Waterthrush, and Tennessee Warbler.

---On May 12 at Hale Crossroad, David Dowell reported Broad-winged Hawk, SEDGE WREN, and Hooded Warbler.

DFO Field Trips: 

For details please visit the DFO website dfobirds.org

Monday, May 14, 2018  5:15 AM – 4:00 PM

Elbert County

David Suddjian (dsuddjian AT gmail.com; 831-713-8659)

Register online or contact leader.

Tuesday, May 15 5:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Deer Creek Canyon

David Suddjian (dsuddjian AT gmail.com; 831-713-8659)

This trip is FULL.

Saturday,May  19  5:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Chatfield State Park

David Suddjian (dsuddjian AT gmail.com; 831-713-8659)

This trip is FULL.

Sunday, May 20  6:15 AM – 11:00 AM

Second Creek Open Space (Commerce City)

Patrick O’Driscoll (patodrisk AT gmail.com; 303-885-6955 (cell))

Register online or contact leader.

Good Birding,

Joyce Takamine

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