Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: August 21, 2013
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, August 21, 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):
Barrow's Goldeneye (Clear Creek)
REDDISH EGRET (*Bent)
WHITE IBIS (Alamosa)
MEW GULL (Larimer)
White-winged Dove (Pueblo)
Greater Roadrunner (Fremont)
Black Phoebe (Fremont)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Boulder, Pueblo, Washington)
Bell's Vireo (Logan)
Purple Martin (Mesa)
Nashville Warbler (Adams, La Plata)
Black-throated Gray Warbler (Garfield, La Plata)
Northern Waterthrush (Pueblo)
Indigo Bunting (Jefferson)
ADAMS COUNTY:
--2 Nashville Warblers were reported by Sheeter at Barr Lake in the ditch on the boat ramp side of the park on August 13.
ALAMOSA COUNTY:
--The WHITE IBIS is still in the area. On August 17, Beauchaine, refuge manager of Alamosa NWR reported seeing the WHITE IBIS in a closed area of the refuge flying around with White-faced Ibis.
BENT COUNTY:
--A sub-adult white-morph REDDISH EGRET was reported by Duane Nelson at Lake Hasty below the dam at John Martin Reservoir on August 20. It was partial the the shallow water on either side of the isthmus that divides the north and south halves of the lake.
BOULDER COUNTY:
--A Great Crested Flycatcher was reported by Knight at the footbridge at Golden Ponds in Longmont on August 19.
CLEAR CREEK COUNTY:
--A f Barrow's Goldeneye with ducklings was reported by Righter on the north side of Echo Lake on August 14.
FREMONT COUNTY:
--Moss reported that hatch year Black Phoebes continue along the Canon City Riverwalk west of Sell's Lake parking area at least through 10 August. On August 11, Moss reported juvenal Black Phoebes at Sell's Lake adjacent to the Canon City Riverwalk. On August 13, Moss reported 2 juvenal Black Phoebes across the Arkansas River near Sell's Lake and on August 14, Moss reported 1 Black Phoebe in the same area.
--A young Greater Roadrunner was reported by Moss at Brush Hollow SWA on August 13.
GARFIELD COUNTY:
--Bunches of Black-throated Gray Warblers were reported by Dahl at Rifle Gap Reservoir on August 13.
JEFFERSON COUNTY:
--An Indigo Bunting family (m, 4 young) was reported by Henwood at Bear Creek Lake Park on August 19. The family was along Bear Creek just below the Soda Lakes Road across the street from the Conoco Station at C470 and Morrison Road.
LA PLATA COUNTY:
--A Black-throated Gray Warbler and Nashville Warbler were reported by Morris at the Durango Hatchery on August 17.