Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: May 28, 2013
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, May 28, 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):
Broad-winged Hawk (Kit Carson,Fremont)
HUDSONIAN GODWIT (Weld)
Red-Bellied Woodpecker (Prowers)
EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE (Sedgwick)
ALDER FLYCATCHER (Washington)
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER (Yuma)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Pueblo)
Willow Flycatcher (El Paso)
Cassin's Kingbird (*San Miguel)
SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER (Washington)
Yellow-throated Vireo (*El Paso, Pueblo, Washington)
PHILADELPHIA VIREO (Boulder)
GRAY-CHEEKED THRUSH (El Paso,El Paso/Pueblo,Weld)
Veery (Pueblo,Yuma)
Golden-winged Warbler (Yuma)
Tennessee Warbler (Washington)
Black-throated Gray Warbler (Boulder,El Paso)
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER (El Paso)
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER (Lincoln)
Blackpoll Warbler (*El Paso, Pueblo)
Black & White Warbler (El Paso, Pueblo)
Northern Parula (*El Paso, El Paso/Pueblo)
Magnolia Warbler (Bent,Pueblo,Weld)
CAPE MAY WARBLER (Pueblo)
Summer Tanager (El Paso,Lincoln)
Northern Cardinal (Boulder)
Painted Bunting (Baca,El Paso)
Scott's Oriole (*San Miguel)
BACA COUNTY:
--On May 26, McConnell reports a PAINTED BUNTING at Cottonwood Canyon, just north and east of the camping area.
BENT COUNTY:
--On May 23, DeFonso reports a Magnolia Warbler at Van's Grove.
BOULDER COUNTY:
--On May 25, Heinrich reports a Northern Cardinal, that spent the winter in his neighborhood, visited his feeders this morning, and last evening.
--On May 24, Sheeter reports a PHILADELPHIA VIREO at Bear Hollow Park, in Lyons. The bird was just over the bridge. (The park across the street from Black Bear Inn.)
--On May 20, Heinrich reports a Black-throated Gray Warbler visited his yard in North Boulder. It was also seen on May 21, it was not seen on May 22.
EL PASO COUNTY:
On May 27, Farese reported a singing Yellow-throated Vireo, 3 Blackpoll Warblers (2 m, 1 f) in the "Grandfather Cottonwood" tree,
and 1 Northern Parula near the Gazebo at the S end of Rice's Pond at Fountain Creek Regional Park.
--On May 24, Eaton reports a Summer Tanager along the Fountain Creek Regional Trail in Colorado Springs, just north of Circle Drive.
--On May 23, Goycoolea saw a BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER around 5:00 PM just south of the play area in the willows at the Beidleman Environmental Center/Soderman Park in Colorado Springs. (This was reported to Pals via* email on 5/24) The Warbler was seen on May 25 by B. Maynard, it was foraging for long periods at all heights in most of the trees, coniferous and deciduous, that surround the parking lot, at the same location. It was seen by many birders on May 26, and last seen by Pals at the same location around 7:00 PM.