Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 10 May 2018

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler:   Joyce Takamine

Date:        May 10, 2018

e-mail:      RBA AT cobirds.org  

This is the Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, May 10 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 (Rio Grande)

Greater Scaup (Hinsdale)

Bufflehead (Gunnison)

Common Goldeneye (Gunnison)

Northern Bobwhite (Kiowa)

Greater Prairie Chicken (Yuma)

Greater Roadrunner (Baca, Las Animas)

Common Nighthawk (Weld)

Chimney Swift (Prowers, Weld)

White-throated Swift (Pueblo)

ANNA’S HUMMINGBIRD (Jefferson)

Virginia Rail (Chaffee)

Sora (Jackson, Montezuma)

Sandhill Crane (Montezuma)

Black-necked Stilt (Montezuma)

Snowy Plover (*Kiowa)

Piping Plover (Kiowa)

Upland Sandpiper (Arapahoe, Larimer)

Whimbrel (*Kiowa)

Long-billed Curlew (Baca, Boulder, *Kiowa)

HUDSONIAN GODWIT (Kiowa)

Marbled Godwit (*Kiowa, Mesa, Weld)

Long-billed Dowitcher  ( Weld)

Willet  (Jackson, Weld)

Wilson’s Phalarope (Boulder, Kit Carson)

Forster’s Tern (Adams)

American White Pelican (Douglas, Hinsdale)

Snowy Egret (Montezuma)

Cattle Egret (*Jefferson, Mesa)

Glossy Ibis (*Boulder, Fremont)

White-faced Ibis (Mesa, Weld)

Turkey Vulture (Douglas)

Mississippi Kite (*El Paso)

Acorn Woodpecker (La Plata)

Red-bellied Woodpecker (Bent, Prowers)

Ladder-backed Woodpecker (*El Paso, Las Animas)

Olive-sided Flycatcher (Bent, Boulder, Jefferson)

Western Wood-Pewee (Baca, Boulder, El Paso, Fremont, Las Animas, Mesa, Pueblo)

Gray Flycatcher (Boulder, Gunnison, Kit Carson, Las Animas)

Dusky Flycatcher (Jefferson, Las Animas, Montrose, Prowers)

Cordilleran Flycatcher (*Saguache)

Black Phoebe (Las Animas, Mesa)

Eastern Phoebe (Baca, Boulder, Fremont, Jefferson, Las Animas, Otero)

Ash-throated Flycatcher (*El Paso, Otero)

Western Kingbird (Gunnison)

Warbling Vireo (Boulder)

Gray Vireo (Las Animas)

Yellow-throated Vireo (*Boulder)

 Cassin’s Vireo (Bent, Boulder, Jefferson, Weld)

Plumbeous Vireo (Boulder, Baca)

Philadelphia Vireo (*El Paso)

Warbling Vireo (Boudler)

Red-eyed Vireo (Prowers)

Gray Jay (*El Paso)

Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay (*Jefferson)

Chihuahuan Raven (*Kiowa)

Violet-green Swallow (Jefferson, Weld)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Moffat)

Cliff Swallow (Moffat)

Bushtit (Weld)

Canyon Wren (Otero, Prowers)

Marsh Wren (Gunnison)

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Hinsdale, Kit Carson)

Eastern Bluebird (Fremont)

Swainson’s Thrush (Prowers)

Hermit Thrush (El Paso)

Gray Catbird (Arapahoe, Prowers)

Curve-billed Thrasher (*El Paso, Kiowa)

Brown Thrasher (*Weld)

American Pipit (Kiowa)

Red Crossbill (Las Animas)

Lesser Goldfinch (Jefferson)

Chestnut-collared Longspur (Weld)

Spotted Towhee (Jefferson)

EASTERN TOWHEE (Yuma)

Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Baca, Las Animas)

Canyon Towhee (Baca, Las Animas)

Chipping Sparrow (Logan, Montezuma)

Clay-colored Sparrow (*El Paso)

Lark Sparrow (El Paso)

Black-throated Sparrow (*Alamosa)

Grasshopper Sparrow (*Boulder, Denver)

Field Sparrow (Bent, Prowers,)

Sagebrush Sparrow (Boulder)

Harris’s Sparrow (Boulder, Prowers)

Yellow-breasted Chat (Jefferson)

Orchard Oriole (Bent, Las Animas)

Bullock’s Oriole (Bent, Gunnison)

Brown-headed Cowbird (Kit Carson, Yuma)

Worm-eating Warbler (*Prowers)

Northern Waterthrush (*Jefferson, Prowers)

Golden-winged Warbler (Bent)

Black-and-white Warbler (Bent, Jefferson, *Prowers)

Prothonotary  Warbler (Jefferson)

SWAINSON’S WARBLER (Prowers)

Tennessee Warbler (*Kiowa)

Orange-crowned Warbler (Ouray)

Nashville Warbler (Bent, Jefferson, Prowers)

Virginia’s Warbler (Ouray)

MacGillivray’s Warbler (*Jefferson)

MOURNING WARBLER (Bent, *Prowers)

Common Yellowthroat (Gunnison)

Hooded Warbler (Weld)

Northern Parula (Weld)

Magnolia Warbler (*Prowers)

Yellow Warbler (Hinsdale)

Chestnut-sided Warbler (*Saguache, *Weld)

Blackpoll Warbler (Bent, *Weld)

Black-throated Blue Warbler *Jefferson)

Palm Warbler (Boulder)

Yellow-throated Warbler (*Pueblo)

PRAIRIE WARBLER (Bent)

Grace’s Warbler (Jefferson)

Black-throated Gray Warbler (*Jefferson)

Townsend’s Warbler (*Bent, *Kiowa)

Black-throated Green Warbler (Kiowa, *Prowers)

Hepatic Tanager (Las Animas)

Summer Tanager (Bent, Las Animas, Prowers, *Weld)

Scarlet Tanager (Prowers)

Northern Cardinal (Baca, Prowers)

Rose-breasted Grosbeak (*Boulder, Weld)

Blue Grosbeak (Las Animas, Prowers, *Weld)

Lazuli Bunting (*El Paso)

Indigo Bunting (Adams)

ADAMS COUNTY:

--- On May 6 at Barr Lake SP Bird Conservancy of Rockies Office Area and below dam, Adam Vesely reported Indigo Bunting.

ALAMOSA COUNTY:

---On May 9 at Hwy 140 pullout at Mosca, Chet Ogan reported Black-throated Sparrow perched on sign of Medano Zapata pullout.

ARAPAHOE COUNTY:

---On May 7 at Cherry Creek SP, Cnythia Madsen reported Gray Catbird.

---On May 8 at 8884 15th Ave in Deer Trail, Loch Kilpatrick reported Upland Sandpiper sittin on fence post along highway.

BACA COUNTY:

---On May 7 at Springfield Water Treatment Plant, Steve Mlodinow reported Plumbeous Vireo.

---On May 7 at Picture Canyon, Steve Mlodinow reported 2 Rufous-crowned Sparrows, Eastern Phoebe, 4 Canyon Towhee, Northern Cardinal and Western Wood-Pewee.

---On May 7 on CR M south side just after turning off of US 287, Bill Fink reported Long-billed Curlew.

---On May 7 at CR 5 and CR M, Bill Fink reported Greater Roadrunner.

BENT COUNTY:

---On May 7 at Tempel Grove, Brandon Percival reported m Golden-winged Warbler on W side of CR 35 away from canal; f Blackpoll Warbler, m Black-and-white Warbler, and Summer Tanager; Steve Rash reported Golden-winged Warbler; Jane Stulp et al reported Golden-winged Warbler, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Nashville Warber, and Orchard Oriole.  On May 8 at Melody Tempel Grove, Steve Mlodinow reported m MOURNING WARBLER and Summer Tanager.  On May 9 at Melodoy Tempel Grove, Brandon Percival reported Townsend’s Warbler.

---On May 7 at 30024 -30046 CR 24 at John Martin Reservoir, Renee Casias reported Golden-winged Warbler, PRAIRIE WARBLER, and Summer Tanager.

BOULDER COUNTY:

---On May 6 at Walden/Sawhill Ponds, Stephen Chang reported Harris’s Sparrow; Boulder Bird Club reported 3 Wilson’s Phalarope and Western Wood-Pewee; Elena Klaver reported Western Wood-Pewee.  On May 8 at Walden/Sawhill Ponds, Ted Floyd reported 3 Warbling Vireo (Eastern).

---On May 8 at Boulder Creek at 75th, Ted Floyd reported Eastern Phoebe.

---On May 6 at Wonderland Lake Park, David Haskell and Katie Lehman reported Eastern Phoebe.

---On May 7 at Green Mountain Cemetery, Bill Kaempfer reported Gray Flycatcher.

---On May 8 at CU Boulder, East Campus, Mark Minner-Lee, Ted Floyd, and Bill Kaempfer reported Cassin’s Vireo, Gray Flycatcher, Western Wood-Pewee, Olive-sided Flycatcher, and Plumbeous Vireo.  On May 8 at CU Boulder, East Campus, Peter Burke reported Yellow-throated Vireo on W side of western most pond.

---On May 8 on South Mesa trail, Candice Johnson reported Long-billed Curlew.

---On May 8 at Pella crossing OS, Carl Starace reported Glossy Ibis.  On May 9 at Pella Crossing OS, Raymond Davis reported Glossy Ibis and 3 Rose-breasted Grosbeak.

---On May 8 at Walden Ponds, Leanne Presley and Susan Downey reported Palm Warbler (western).

---On May 9 at Damyanovich/Yunker OS, Christian Nunes reported Grasshopper Sparrow.

---On May 9 on Coal Creek Trail in Lafayette, Jessica Vance reported Rose-breasted Grosbeak.

EL PASO COUNTY:

--- On May 7 at Chico Basin Ranch, John Bruder reported Ladder-backed Woodpecker.  On May 8 at Chico Basin ranch, Ken Burton reported banding 3 Hermit Thrush.  On May 9 at Chico Basin ranch, Ken  Burton, and others reported Ash-throated Flycatcher, 2 Ladder-backed Woodpeckers, Curve-billed Thrashers.  

---On May 7 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown reported Western Wood-Pewee.  On May 8 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve  Brown reported 3 Lazuli Bunting.  On May 9 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown reported Clay-colored Sparrow.

---On May 6 at Kiowa Creek Nature Center, Gloria Nikolai reported Eastern Bluebird.

---On May 7 at Adams Open Space in Fountain, Monday Birders reported Mississippi Kite; Heidi Eaton reported pair of Mississippi Kites.  On May 8 at Adams Open Space, Aaron and Pati Driscoll reported Mississippi Kite.  On May 9 at Adams Open Space, John Drummond, Terence Berger and Joy and Leonard Lake reported 2 Mississippi Kites.

---On May 7 at Fountain Creek Regional Park, Diane Roberts and her DFO Field Trip reported Western Wood-Pewee.

---On May 7 on Hanover Road, Terence Berger reported 2 Ladder-backed Woodpeckers.  On May 9 on Hanover Road, Terence Berger and Daniel Fleming reported Ladder-backed Woodpecker; John Drummond and Aiken Audubon and Mel and Jeanne Goff reported Philadelphia Vireo.

---On May 8 at Otowi, Alan Ketcham reported Mississippi Kite.

---On May 8 at Hanover Fire Station, David and Cheryl Hubbard reported Curve-billed Thrasher.

---On May 9 at Pike’s Peak trail from Crag, Julia Putman reported 3 Gray Jays.

FREMONT COUNTY:

---On May 6 at Florence River Park, SeEtta Moss reported 4 Eastern Bluebirds.

---On May 6 on Canon City Riverwalk from Mackenzie Ave to S Rayolds Ave, Joel Adams reported Western Wood-Peww and Eastern Phoebe.

GUNNISON COUNTY:

---On May 6 at McCabe’s Lane Wetland, Toni Kraus, Steven Horvath, and Nick Niezgoda reported Bullock’s Oriole, Western Kingbird, Common Yellowthroat, Bufflehead, and 2 Marsh Wren.  On May 7 at McCabe’s lane Wetland, Nick Niezgoda, reported 2 Bullock’s Orioles and Marsh Wren.

---On May 6 at Blue Mesa Reservoir – eastern portion, Nick Niezgoda and Toni Kraus reported Common Goldeneye and Gray Flycatcher.

HINSDALE COUNTY:

---On May 8 at Road Canyon Reservoir #1, John Cobb reported Yellow Warbler.

---On May 9 at Brown Lake SWA, John Cobb reported 2 Greater Scaup, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and American White Pelicon.

JEFFERSON COUNTY:

---On May 6 at Harriman Lake Park, Frank Farrell, Rob Raker, and Pablo Quezada reported Northern Waterthrush.

---On May 6 at Chatfield Banding Station, Meredith McBurney reported recapturing Yellow-breasted Chat which she had banded in 2015, recaught in 2016 and Spotted Towhee repactured, banded in 2016 and recaught in 2017.  On May 7 at Chatfield Banding Station, Meredith McBurney banded Dusky Flycatcher and 2 Lesser Goldfinch (probable pair).  On May 9 at Chatfield Banding Station, Meredith McBurney reporte Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay, Northern Waterthrush, MacGillivray’s Warbler.

---On May 6 at Belmar Park, Frank Farrell and Bez Bezuidenhout reported Black-and-white Warbler.

---On May 7 at Wheat Ridge Greenbelt, Kevin DeBoer reported Cassins Vireo and Olive-sided Flycatcher.

---On May 7 at Chatfield SP Audubon Center and Trails, Dale Pate reported Nashville Warbler.

---On May 8 at Main Reservoir in Lakewood, Matt Clark and Susan Bonfiglio reported f ANNA’S HUMMINGBIRD in NW Corner.  On May 9 at Main Reservoir, Gabriel WIltse reported Black-throated Gray Warbler.

---On May 8 at Lower White Ranch Park, Jerry Baines reported Black-throated Blue Warbler.

---On May 8 at Chatfield Banding Station, Meredith McBurney and Suzy Hiskey reported m Prothonotary Warbler.

---On May 9 at 5600 W 73rd Ave in Westminster Kimberly Tavernia reported 6 Cattle Egret.

KIOWA COUNTY:

---On May 8 at Upper Queens Reservoir, David Suddjian and his DFO field trip reported Black-throated Green Warbler on N side of parking at west boat launch.  On May 9 at Upper Queens/Neeskah Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Tennesee Warbler, Townsend’s Warbler, 6 Snowy Plover, 9 Whimbrel, 3 Long-billed Curlew, 43 Marbled Godwits, and 2 Chihuahuan Raven.

---On May 6 at Neenoshe Reservoir, Steve Rash reported HUDSONIAN GODWIT and Stilt Sandpiper and White-rumped Sandpiper.  On May 8 at Neenoshe Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported 4 Northern Bobwhite, 8 Snowy Plovers, 1 Piping Plover, and Curve-billed Thrasher.

LA PLATA COUNTY:

 ---On May 6 on Animas River Trail behind Home Depot, Susan Allerton reported Western Wood-Pewee, Dusky Flycatcher, and Black Phoebe.

 LARIMER COUNTY:

---On May 7 at Pond at S Wellington on Clinton Ave, Lori Pivonka reported Upland Sandpiper.

LAS ANIMAS COUNTY:

---On May 6 at Chictaw, Steve Mlodinow reported 4 Greater Roadrunners, Eastern Phoebe, Gray Vireo, 2 Rufous-crowned Sparrows, 13 Summer Tanagers, 2 Hepatic Tanagers, Blue Grosbeak.

---On May 7 at Freeman ranch Entrance Riparian, Steve Mlodinow reported Gray Flycatcher, 3 Cassin’s Kingbird, 2 Blue Grosbeak.

---On May 7 at Freeman Ranch East Carrizo Creek, Steve Mlodinow reported 7 Ladderback Woodpeckers, Gray Flycatcher, 9 Eastern Phoebe, 22 Cassin’s Kingbird, 10 Canyon Towhees, 3 m Blue Grosbeak, 2 Orchard Oriole.

MESA COUNTY:

---On May 6 at Highline Lake SP, Deb Stegall and Ronda Woodward reported Cattle Egret.  On May 8 at Highline Lake SP, Eric DeFonso reported Western Wood-Pewee

---On May 8 at Clifton Nature Park, Ryan Claar reported Cattle Egret and Black Phoebe.

MONTEZUMA COUNTY:

---On May 6 at Totten Reservoir, Erik Hendrickson reported 2 Black-necked Stilts, Sora, 2 Snowy Egrets, and 2 Sandhill Cranes.s

OTERO COUNTY:

---On May 6 in Vogel Canyon, Lorraine Lanning reported 2 Eastern Phoebe, 2 Ash-throated Flycatchers, 2 Canyon Wrens.

OURAY COUNTY:

---On May 5 on CR 4B, Don Marsh reported 2 Virginia’s Warblers, and 2 Orange-crowned Warblers.

PROWERS COUNTY:

---On May 5 at Lamar Community College, Pablo Quezada and many other birders reported Scarlet Tanager, Nashville Warbler, 2 Northern Cardinals, 5 Chimney Swifts, and Red-eyed Vireo; Brandon Percival reported Swainson’s Thrush and Gray Catbird.  On May 6 at Lamar Community College, Brandon Percival reported Northern Waterthrush, Field Sparrow, Summer Tanager, singing Scarlet Tanager, Northern Cardinal, Blue Grosbeak; John Drummond and Jeannie Mitchel reported 3 Chimney Swift, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Dusky Flycatcher, Northern Waterthrush, Summer Tanager, Scarlet Tanager and 2 Northern Cardinals.  On May 8 at Lamar Community College, David Suddjian and his DFO field trip reported Scarlet Tanager; Brandon Percival reported at the South end of LCC, m MOURNING WARBLER, m Magnolia Warbler, f Black-throated Green Warbler, and Black-and-white Warbler.  On May 9 at Lamar Community College, the DFO Field trip reported MOURNING WARBLER and Brandon Percival reported Worm-eating Warbler at N end.

---On May 6 at Riverside Cemetery, Dave Leatherman found a SWAINSON’S WARBLER in a windbreak of trees adjacent to the cemetery.  The windbreak is on private property do not bird the windbreak without permission.  

---On May 6 at Two Buttes butte, Renee Casias reported 3 Canyon Wren, Black-and-white Warbler, and Harris’s Sparrow.

PUEBLO COUNTY:

---On May 7 at Mineral Palace Park, Van Truan reported Yellow-throated Warbler.  On May 9 at Mineral Palace Park, Van Truan reported Yellow-throated Warbler.

---On May 6 at Signal Mountain Ranch, Larry Moore reported Western Wood-Pewee.

SAGUACHE COUNTY:

---On May 9 at Deadman’s Creek riparian area, John Cobb reported Cordilleran Flycatcher and m Chestnut-sided Warbler.

WELD COUNTY:

---On May 6 at Crow Valley CG, Mark Chavez, Gene Rutherford, and Connie Kogler reported Cassin’s Vireo.  On May 7 at Crow Valley CG, Loch Kilpatrick reported Common Nighthawk, Cassin’s Vireo, and Northern Parula.  On May 9 at Crow Valley CG, Gene Rutherford reported m Chestnut-sided Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, and f Summer Tanager; Norm Lewis reported Summer Tanager.

---On May 6 at Norma’s Grove, Connie Kogler reported Hooded Warbler.

---On May 7 on CR 13 3 miles N of intersection with CR 86, Gary Lefko reported 4 Marbled Godwits.

---On May 7 at Glenmere Park in Greeley, Shawn Mason reported 2 Chimney Swifts, 4 Bushtits (nesting), and Rose-breasted Grosbeak.

---On May 7 at CR 114 and C 45, Rachel Hopper reported multiple singing Chestnut-collared Longspurs.

---On May 9 at Nunn Woods where Lone Tree Creek corsses Nunn County Roads, Gary Lefko reported Blue Grosbeak and Brown Thrasher.

DFO Field Trips: 

For details please visit the DFO website dfobirds.org

Prospect Park (Wheat Ridge Greenbelt)

Saturday, May 12

8:00 AM -13:30 AM

Jackie King (jackie.king AT ccd.edu; 720-38103314)

Register online or contact leader.

Eldorado Canyon State Park

Sunday, May 13

6:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Karen Drozda (drozforte AT AOL.com; 303-388-0891)

This trip is FULL

Cherry Creek SP Wetlands Loop

Sunday, May 13

8:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Karen von Saltza & Bill Wuerthele (kvonsaltz AT yahoo.com; 303-941-4881)

Roxborough State Park

Sunday, May 13 

8:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Alison Kondler (birdtrills AT gmail.com; 303-904-9140) 

This trip is FULL.

Good Birding,

Joyce Takamine

Boulder