Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 4 August 2017 *

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler:             Joyce Takamine

e-mail:                 RBA AT cobirds.org

Date:                    August 4, 2017

This is the Rare Bird Alert for Friday, August 4 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 changes.

Cackling Goose (Weld)

Trumpeter Swan (Routt)

Wood Duck (Washington)

Bufflehead (Larimer)

Barrow’s Goldeneye (Chaffee)

Northern Bobwhite (*Arapahoe)

Greater Sage-Grouse (Jackson)

White-tailed Ptarmigan (Boulder, Ouray)

Dusky Grouse (Boulder)

Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Larimer)

Greater Roadrunner (El Paso, Otero)

Black Swift (Boulder)

Chimney Swift (Jefferson)

RIVOLI’S (MAGNIFICENT) HUMMINGBIRD (Gilpin, Jefferson)

Sandhill Crane (Park)

Semipalmated Plover (*El Paso, Jackson, Larimer)

Long-billed Curlew (Boulder, Weld)

Stilt Sandpiper (Jackson, Larimer, Weld)

Pectoral Sandpiper (El Paso, Jackson, Larimer, Weld)

Semipalmated Sandpiper (Jackson, Larimer)

Solitary Sandpiper (El Paso, Montrose, Weld)

Black Tern (El Paso, Washington, *Weld)

Common Loon (Ouray)

CALIFORNIA CONDOR (Dolores)

Mississippi Kite (El Paso, Las Animas, Weld)

Lewis’s Woodpecker (Custer)

Red-headed Woodpecker (Adams, *El Paso, Las Animas, Otero, San Miguel, Washington)

Williamson’s Sapsucker (Pueblo)

American Three-toed Woodpecker Boulder, Gunnison, *Larimer, Ouray)

Least Flycatcher (Weld)

Gray Flycatcher (*Boulder, Fremont)

Eastern Phoebe (Douglas)

Chihuahuan Raven (Kiowa, *Otero)

Pacific Wren (Boulder)

Carolina Wren (Las Animas)

Bewick’s Wren (Las Animas)

Veery (*Gilpin)

Curve-billed Thrasher (El Paso, Fremont)

Brown-capped Rosy-Finch (Boulder, El Paso, Ouray)

White-winged Crossbill (Ouray)

McCown’s Longspur (Larimer)

Northern Parula (Larimer)

Yellow-throated Warbler (Pueblo)

Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Otero)

Lark Bunting (Chaffee, Gunnison, Jackson, Washington)

Black-throated Sparrow (Fremont)

Fox Sparrow (Boulder, Jackson, Larimer, San Juan)

Summer Tanager (Baca, Las Animas, Montezuma)

Indigo Bunting (Kiowa)

Dickcissel (Boulder, Douglas, El Paso)

Bobolink (Boulder)

ARAPAHOE COUNTY:

---On July 30 at Cherry Creek Valley Ecological Park, Cynthia Madsen and David Hill reported Northern Bobwhite.  On August 3 at Cherry Creek Valley Ecological Park, Linda Czarny reported Northern Bobwhite.

BOULDER COUNTY:

---On July 22 at Rocky Mountain NP, Wild Basin, Renee Casias reported 3 Black Swift, Pacific Wren, and Fox Sparrow.  On July 23 at Rocky Mountain NP, Wild Basin, Dean Shoup and Tim Smart reported 4 Black Swifts and singing Pacific Wren;  Candice Johnson reported f American Three-toed Woodpecker just below Calypso Cascades and Pacific Wren.  On July 25 at Rocky Mountain NP, Ouzel Falls, Luke Pheneger reported 3 Dusky Grouse, American Three-toed Woodpecker, Pacific Wren, and Fox Sparrow (slate-colored) and Ted Floyd reported Pacific Wren.  On July 26 at Rocky Mountain NP, Ouzel Falls, Loch Kilpatrick reported Black Swift and Pacific Wren.  On July 30 at Rocky Mountain NP, Wild Basin, Frank Farrell, Aaron Shipe, Peer Burke reported Black Swifts, American Three-toed Woodpeckers and Pacific Wren.  On July 31 at Rocky Mountain NP, Wild Basin, Ander Buckley and Baxter Beamer reported 7 Black Swifts, American Three-toed Woodpecker and Pacific Wren.

---On July 30 at Fourth of July Campground and Trail, Luke Pheneger reported 4 White-tailed Ptarmigan, 2 Fox Sparrows (slate-colored) and 4 Brown-capped Rosy-Finch.

---On July 39 at Boulder Creek on University of Colorado Campus, Paul Barchilon reported Gray Flycatcher.

---On August 1 on S Boulder Creek Trail, Jeff Parks reported Gray Flycatcher.

---On August 2, Luke Pheneger reported 3 Long-billed Curlews at Lagerman Reservoir.

CHAFFEE COUNTY:

---On July 24 at Sands Lake SWA, Christian Hagenlocher reported m Barrow’s Goldeneye.  On July 26 at Sands Lake SWA, Van Truan reported m Barrow’s Goldeneye.

CHAFFEE COUNTY:

---On July 31 at Clear Creek Reservoir, Doug Kibbe and Mackenzie Goldthwait reported 3 m Lark Buntings.

CUSTER COUNTY:

---On July 31 NE of Wetmore, Bez Bezuidenhout reported 6 Lewis’s Woodpeckers.

DOLORES COUNTY:

---On July 24, Steve Heath reported a soaring CALIFORNIA CONDOR 4 miles above Bradfield bridge on Dolores River.

DOUGLAS COUNTY:

---On July 29 at Charfield SP, Diane Roberts and Felice Lyons reported Eastern Phoebe.

---On July 24 at Spruce Mountain Road fields, Monday Birders reported Dickcissel.

EL PASO COUNTY:

---On July 26 at Ramah Reservoir SWA, Cheri Phillips reported Solitary Sandpiper, Red-headed Woodpecker, and Dickcissel; Cole Wolf reported Pectoral Sandpiper, 2 Solitary Sandpipers, 6 Black Terns, and 4 Dickcissels (2 at N end and 2 at S end).  On August 3 at Ramah Reservoir SWA, Alan Versaw reported Semipalmated Plover, 3 Red-headed Woodpecker, and 4 Dickcissels.

---On July 27 at Fountain Creek Regional Park, Tanja Britton reported Mississippi Kite.  On July 28 at Fountain Creek Regional Park, Diane Roberts reported Mississippi Kite.

---On July 24 at Pikes Peak Summit, Clive Harris reported 5 Brown-capped Rosy-Finch.  On July 25 at Pikes Peak Summit, Joel Adams reported 3 Brown-capped Rosy-Finch.

---On July 28 at Hanover Road, Diane Roberts reported Greater Roadrunner and 2 Curve-billed Thrashers.

---On July 30 at Hanover Fire Station, Tanja Britton reported 2 Curve-billed Thrashers.

FREMONT COUNTY:

---On July 29 at Siloam Road at CR 110, Joel Adams reported 6 Black-throated Sparrows.

---On July 29 at CR 123 near Penrose, Joel Adams reported 2 Curve-billed Thrashers.

---On July 31 at Red Canyon Park, Bez Bezuidenhout reported 2 Gray Flycatchers.

GILPIN COUNTY:

---On July 25 at Golden Gate Canyon Park, northernmost picnic area on Mountain Base Road, Steve Mlodinow reported f RIVOLI’S (MAGNIFICIENT) HUMMINGBIRD.

---On August 2 on Lower Apex Valley Road, Kathy Mihm Dunning and Tony Leukering reported Veery.

GUNNISON COUNTY:

---On August 1 (Colorado Day) on Brush Creek Trail, Phil Lyon reported Lark Bunting (Colorado State Bird).

JACKSON COUNTY:

---On July 28 at MacFarlane Reservoir, Chuck Hundertmark reported 6 Greater Sage-Grouse and m Lark Bunting.  On July 29 at MacFarlane Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Semipalmated Plover and Semipalmated Sandpiper.

---On July 28 at Walden on CR 34, Chuck Hundertmark reported Lark Bunting.

---On Juy 28 at 18 Island Reservoir, Chuck Hundertmark reported Pectoral Sandpiper.  On July 28 at 18 Island Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported 8 Stilt Sandpipers.

---On July 28 on CR 21, Steve Mlodinow reported a pair of Lark Buntings and Fox Sparrow (slate-colored).

JEFFERSON COUNTY:

---On July 27 at Hildebrand Ranch Park, David Suddjian reported Chimney Swift and Matt Clark reported

f-type RIVOLI’S (MAGNIFICIENT) HUMMINGBIRD by the stream.

LARIMER COUNTY:

---On July 27 at Rigden Reservoir (Strauss Cabin Lake), Nick Komar reported f Bufflehead.

---On July 24 at Gateway Natural Area, Jonathan Layman reported Northern Parula.

---On July 28 at Rocky Mountain National Park, Old Fall River Road, Elaine Coley and Jim Thompson reported Fox Sparrow.

---On July 29 at Wellington SWA Cobb Lake Unit, Andy Bankert and Mik McCloy found Yellow-billed Cuckoo and later Nick Komar, David Wade, John Shenot and Austin Hess were able to relocated the Cuckoo.  On July 30 at Wellington SWA Cobb Lake Unit, Danny Montalvo, Austin Hess, Brandon Nooner, Walter Wehtje, Christine and Richard Sparks reported Yellow-billed Cuckoo.  On July 31 at Wellington SWA, Cobb Lake Unit, Cheri Phillps reported Yellow-billed Cuckoo.  On August 1 at Wellington SWA Cobb Lake Unit, David Wade heard Yellow-billed Cuckoo.

---On July 30 at Soapstone Prairie NA, Mike McCloy reported 6 McCown’s Longspurs.

---On July 31 at Topminnow NA (East Horsetooth Gravel Pit), Nick Komar and David Wade reported 2 Stilt Sandpipers.

---On August 2 at Duck Lake, Nick Komar and Walter Wehtje reported Semipalmated Plover, Pectoral Sandpiper and Semipalmated Sandpiper.

---On August 3 at Lory State Park, Libby Edwards reported a pair of American Three-toed Woodpeckers

along Overlook Trail.

LAS ANIMAS COUNTY:

---On July 24 at Cottonwood Canyon CG, Paul Conover reported Mississippi Kite, Red-headed Woodpecker, Carolina Wren, 3 Summer Tanagers (1m, 1f, 1juv), and Bewick’s Wren.

---On July 30 in town of Branson, Tony Leukering reported Carolina Wren.

MONTROSE COUNTY:

---On August 1 at Buckeye Reservoir, Coen Dexter reported 2 Solitary Sandpipers.

OTERO COUNTY:

---On August 2 on Higbee Valley Road, Baxter Beamer reported Greater Roadrunner, 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers and 4 Chihuahuan Ravens.

---On August 2 in Vogel Canyon, Baxter Beamer reported Rufous-crowned Sparrow.

OURAY COUNTY:

---On July 31on Mount Sneffels Summit via Blue Lakes, Jason Wilder reported White-tailed Ptarmigan (Yankee Boy Basin side of Blue Lakes Pass), American Three-toed Woodpecker, 18 Brown-capped Rosy-Finch, and White-winged Crossbill.

PARK COUNTY:

---On July 26 at Spinney Mountain Reservoir, Michael Emnaker reported 2 Sandhill Carnes at Antero rehab area.

PUEBLO COUNTY:

---On July 25 at Mineral Palace Park, Van Truan reported singing Yellow-throated Warbler at NW corner of park in Sycamore.  On July 31 at Mineral Palace Park, Van Trun reported singing Yellow-throated Warbler in NW corner in a Sycamore tree.

ROUTT COUNTY:

---On July 31 at Stagecoach Reservoir, JoAnn Riggle reported Trumpeter Swan.

SAN MIGUEL COUNTY:

---On July 31 in Telluride Valley Floor, Jessica Im reported Red-headed Woodpecker.

WASHINGTON COUNTY:

---On July 28 at Prewitt Reservoir, Norm Lewis reported Wood Duck, 10 Black Terns, 6 Red-headed Woodpeckers and Lark Bunting.

WELD COUNTY:

---On July 29 at Crow Valley CG, Cole Wolf reported 2 Least Flycatcher near the NW corner.

---On August 1 at Glenmere Park in Greeley, Steve Mlodinow and Tony Leukering reported Mississippi Kite.

---On August 1 at CR 59 Bend Pond, Steve Mlodinow and Tony Leukering reported Stilt Sandpiper, 3 Pectoral Sandpipers, 2 Solitary Sandpiper and Peregrine Falcon.

---On August 1 a Loloff Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow and tony Leukering reported Cacking (Taverner’s) Goose, Long-billed Curlew, and Stilt Sandpiper.

---On August 1 at Behrens Reservoir, Tony Leukering and Steve Mlodinow reported Cackling (Taverner’s) Goose.

---On August 3 at CR 61 and CR 74 ponds, Jean Olson reported 2 Black Terns.

Denver Field Ornithologists Field Trips:

The DFO Field Trip for August 5,6 to North Park led by Chuck Hundertmark and Paul Slingsby (chundertmark8 AT gmail.com; 303-604-0531).  This is an overnight trip.  Meet leaders at Moose Visitor Center, CO Hwy 14 at 1200 (Noon) on Saturday, August 5.  

    Leaders recommend making reservations at Park Inn and suites or Chedsey Motel.  Scopes will be helpful.  Bring lunch for the first day, sunscreen, insect repellent, and water.  Register online or contact leader.

For more information on the field trips go to dfobirds.org.

Good Birding,

Joyce Takamine

Boulder