Colorado Rare Bird Alert, June 9, 2013

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler: Joyce Takamine

Date:       June 9, 2013

email:      rba AT cobirds.org

phone:     303-659-8750

This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, June 9, 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)

MAGNIFICENT FRIGATEBIRD (*Jackson)

Green Heron (El Paso)

YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON (Phillips)

Snowy Plover (Kiowa/Bent)

Piping Plover (Kiowa/Bent)

HUDSONIAN GODWIT (Kiowa/Bent)

Caspian Tern (Montezuma, Routt)

ACORN WOODPECKER (*Pueblo)

American Three-toed Woodpecker (Boulder)

YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER (Phillips)

Eastern Phoebe (*Boulder, *Las Animas)

Great-crested Flycatcher (Sedgwick)

Cassin's Kingbird (Boulder, El Paso)

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Morgan)

Yellow-throated Vireo (Larimer)

PHILADELPHIA VIREO (*Huerfano, Phillips)

Chihuahuan Raven (El Paso)

GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH (Phillips)

Curve-billed Thrasher (El Paso/Pueblo)

Ovenbird (Boulder, *Douglas, Larimer)

GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER (El Paso/Pueblo)

Black & White Warbler (El Paso)

Black-throated Sparrow (Fremont)

HEPATIC TANAGER (*Huerfano)

Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Bent, *Boulder)

Indigo Bunting (Boulder, *Douglas, La Plata, Sedgwick)

Scott's Oriole (Jefferson)

BENT COUNTY:

--At Temple Grove on June 6, Moss reported a m Rose-breasted Grosbeak.

 

BOULDER COUNTY:

--On June 8, Floyd reported an Eastern Phoebe at the 63rd St bridge over the St Vrain River.  

--On June 6, Werthele reported a singing m Rose-breasted Grosbeak by the Gregory Canyon parking area.

--On June 5, Norfleet reported that the Boulder Bird Club Wednesday Roadrunners saw two m Rose-breasted Grosbeaks in Louisville.  One was by Callahan Open Space and the other near the SW corner of Monarch Court and Franklin Ave.

--At Boulder Mountain Park on June 2, Tumasonis reported American Three-toed Woodpecker at Bear Peak fireburn area, Ovenbirds where Bear Creek intersects the Mesa Trail, and Indigo Bunting about 1 mile into Bear Creek Canyon Trail.

--On June 2, a Rose-breasted Grosbeak was seen by First Sunday Birders of Boulder Bird Club, led by Norfleet at Sawhill Ponds in Boulder.

--On June 2, Floyd reported a Cassin's Kingbird at GunBarrel Hill in Boulder.

DOUGLAS COUNTY:

--At Roxborough SP on June 8, Matheus reported a m Indigo Bunting near the visitor's center and an Ovenbird.

--At Castlewood Canyon SP on June 2, Kingery reported 2 singing Ovenbirds.

EL PASO COUNTY:

--On June 3 at Turkey Creek Ranch, Goff report 1 Cassin's Kingbird and 2 Chihuahuhan Ravens.

--On June 2, Hinds reported a Pacific Loon at  Big Johnson near the dirt parking area.  On June 3, Pals reported the Pacific Loon near the dam.  On June 5, Kosar reported the Pacific Loon near the dam at Big Johnson.

--On June 2, Farese reported a Green Heron at Fountain Creek Regional Park.

EL PASO/PUEBLO COUNTIES:

--On June 1, at Chico Basin Ranch Percival reported a singing m GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER in tall Elm Trees at the banding station.  On June 2, Teuton reported that the GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER was singing and actively feeding in Elm Trees by the banding station.

--On June 3 at Chico Basin Ranch, Pals reported a Curve-billed Thrasher at Rose Pond.

FREMONT COUNTY:

--Black-throated Sparrows were reported by Walbek near Florence in cholla E of the Federal prison on June 6.

HUERFANO COUNTY:

--On June 6, Walbek reported a HEPATIC TANAGER at I-25 and exit 42.  On June 8, Dowell reported the HEPATIC TANAGER

at the same spot and Mark Miller found a singing male PHILADELPHIA VIREO just down the road from the tanager spot.

The vireo is very pale.

JACKSON COUNTY:

--On June 5, Vaughn reported a possible MAGNIFICENT FRIGATEBIRD over North Park.

JEFFERSON COUNTY:

--A possible Scott's Oriole was reported by Murphy along a riparian area on the Clear Creek Bike Path W of Harlan on June 2.

KIOWA/BENT COUNTIES:

--At Adobe Creek Reservoir on June 3, Duane Nelson reported Piping and Snowy Plover and f HUDSONIAN GODWIT.

LA PLATA COUNTY:

On June 2, Morris reported a m Indigo Bunting on CR 105 about halfway between Hwy 160 and Red Mesa.

LARIMER COUNTY:

--2 m singing Ovenbirds were reported by Leatherman in Rist Canyon on June 5.

--A Yellow-throated Vireo was reported by Leatherman on the S edge of Grandview Cemetery, next to City Park Golf Course on May 31.  On June 1, Summers found the Yellow-throated Vireo in the SE corner of Grandview Cemetery singing quite a bit.

--On June 1, Sparks reported an Indigo Bunting at Lee Martinez Park in Fort Collins.

LAS ANIMAS COUNTY:

--An Eastern Phoebe was reported by Dowell at Apishapa SWA on June 8.

MONTEZUMA COUNTY:

--On June 5, Beatty reported a Caspian Tern at Narraguinnep.

MORGAN COUNTY:

--A Scissor-tailed Flycatcher was reported by Luger SW of Jackson Reservoir on CR 2 with Western Kingbirds on June 4.

PHILLIPS COUNTY:

--On June 2, Wild reported a YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON in the bed of Frenchman's Creek just below the Lion's Fishing Hole in Holyoke and a YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER and GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH in the bed of Frenchman's Creek near the east end of Akron Street in Holyoke.  THE YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON was seen by Tomky on June 3.

--On June 2, Dowell reported a PHILADELPHIA VIREO in a park on the NE side of Haxtun.

PUEBLO COUNTY:

--On June 8, Cowan reported an ACORN WOODPECKER in the big dead tree by the parking area at Pueblo Mountain Park near Beulah.

--On June 2, Pericval reported a singing male Ovenbird at Rock Canyon.

ROUTT COUNTY:

--On June 2, Luke reported 5 Caspian Terns at Steamboat Lake.

SEDGWICK COUNTY:

--On June 2 at Sedgwick Bar SWA, Dowell reported 3 Great-crested Flycatchers and an Indigo Bunting.

 

DFO FIELD TRIPS: 

The DFO Field Trip for Sunday, June 9 will be to Red Rocks Park (Jefferson County) led by Tom Bush.  Meet the leader at Red Rocks Trading Post at 0730 for a half day of foothills birding.  Bring lunch, water and scopes, if desired.  This will be a half day trip.  Will end up watching the Trading Post feeders over lunch.

 

Good Birding,

Joyce Takamine

Boulder