Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 14 April 2014

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler: Joyce Takamine

Date: April 14, 2014

email: rba AT cfobirds.org

phone: 303-659-8750

 

This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Monday, April 14, 2014, 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 (Eagle, Park)

GLOSSY IBIS (Fremont)

Piping Plover (*Bent)

Broad-winged Hawk (Larimer)

Lesser Black-backed Gull (*Larimer)

White-winged Dove (Boulder, El Paso, Pueblo)

YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER (Boulder, Yuma)

American Three-toed Woodpecker (Park)

Eastern Phoebe (*Boulder, *Chaffee, Douglas Larimer, Pueblo)

SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER (*Huerfano)

Curve-billed Thrasher (El Paso)

YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER (*El Paso)

Black-and-white Warbler (Prowers)

Field Sparrow (Logan)

Fox Sparrow (Eagle, Jefferson, Pitkin)

White-throated Sparrow (Logan)

Harris's Sparrow (Garfield,
Pueblo)

GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW (Boulder, Jefferson)

Northern Cardinal (Boulder)

Rusty Blackbird (Boulder)

BENT COUNTY:

--Duane Nelson reported that Piping Plovers have returned to their nesting habitat at John Martin Reservoir on April 12.  If you would like to try to see the birds contact Duane at dnelson1 AT centurytel.net.

BOULDER COUNTY:

--Severs reported that the GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW continues at the Teller Farm

Parking lot by the windbreak on March 27.  On April 10, Waltman reported that the GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW continues at the windbreak by the Teller Farm Parking Lot.

--An Eastern Phoebe was reported by Starace at Walden/Sawhill Ponds in Boulder on April 7.          

--An ad m YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER was reported by Dowell in lower Skunk Canyon near the fence line between NOAA property and neighborhood along Dartmouth Ave in Boulder on April 8. 

--A singing male Rusty Blackbird was reported by Dowell at Walden/Sawhill in Boulder on April 9.  

--An Eastern Phoebe was reported by Waltman on the CU East Campus in Boulder on April 10 and by Moore on April 12. 

--On April 10, Nunes reported that the male Northern Cardinal was singing in the area beyond the

end of Hawthorn in Boulder.

--A singing White-winged Dove was reported by Pieplow in the NW corner of Gunbarrel Commons Park on April 11.

--A singing White-winged Dove was reported by DeFonso at 4th and Cedar on April 11.

CHAFFEE COUNTY:

--An Eastern Phoebe was reported by Norbu at Sands Lake SWA in Salida on April 11.

DOUGLAS COUNTY:

--A singing Eastern Phoebe was reported by Kibbe at Chafield SP on March 28.  It was singing in a tree adjacent to "Phoebe Bridge" over Plum Creek.  On April 7, Suddjian reported the singing Eastern Phoebe at Plum Creek on the east side of the picnic area.

EAGLE COUNTY:

--A pair of Barrow's Goldeneyes and a singing Fox Sparrow were reported by Filby on the Frying Pan River near Basalt on April 11.

EL PASO COUNTY:

--A White-winged Dove was reported by Farese at Fountain Creek RP near the Nature Center on April 6.

--A Curve-billed Thrasher was reported by Drummond by the banding station at Chico Basin Ranch (fee area) on April 11.

--A YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER was reported by Stuart at the banding station at Chico Basin Ranch (fee area) on April 13.

FREMONT COUNTY:

--A GLOSSY IBIS was reported by Moss in Florence on April 12.

GARFIELD COUNTY:

--Filby reported on April 11 that his yard Harris's Sparrow in Carbondale is now singing daily.  If you would like to try to see the bird email him at dickfilby AT hotmail.com.

HUERFANO COUNTY:

--A SCISSOR-TAILED FLYCATCHER was reported by Farese  on a fence east of Walsenburg on CO 10.

JEFFERSON COUNTY:

--A Slate-colored Fox Sparrow and GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW were reported by Henwood at Red Rocks Trading Post on April 5.  On April 12, Shade reported that the DFO field trip saw GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW and Slate-colored Fox Sparrow at Red Rocks Trading Post.

 

LARIMER COUNTY:

--An Eastern Phoebe was reported by Evers on the Loveland Recreation Trail near the dam on the Big Thompson on April 3.   On April 11, Coley reported a pair of Eastern Phoebes by the dam on the Loveland Recreation Trail.

--A Broad-winged Hawk was reported by Zabel soaring over the Environmental Learning Center and Cottonwood Natural Area of Fort Collins on April 8.

--4 Lesser Black-backed Gulls were reported by Komar at Horseshoe Lake in NE Loveland on April 12.

Best viewing spot is at the east end of Engelman Place off of Monroe. 

LOGAN COUNTY:

--At Red Lion SWA in a marsh below "Little Jumbo", Kaempfer reported White-throated Sparrow and Field Sparrow on April 12.

PITKIN COUNTY:

--A Fox Sparrow was reported by Filby at Snowmass Village on April 11.

PROWERS COUNTY:

--A m Black-and-white Warbler was reported by Severs at Lamar Community College Woods on April 7.

PARK COUNTY:

--An American Three-toed Woodpecker was reported by Suddjian outside of Alma on CR 8 on April 8.

--2 Barrow's Goldeneyes were reported by Suddjian at Eleven Mile Reservoir on April 8.

PUEBLO COUNTY:

--An Eastern Phoebe was reported by Percival on the Arkansas River below Pueblo City Park on April 12.

--At Valco Ponds on April 12, Percival reported Harris's Sparrow and Eastern Phoebe (east of Parking Lot) on April 12.

YUMA COUNTY:

--A YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER was reported by Mlodinow at a shelterbelt on CR 51 & US 385 on April 5.  The shelterbelt is along CR51 to the east of US 385.

DFO Field Trips:

The DFO Field Trip for Saturday, April 19 will be to Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR led by David Rhoades (303-424-8633).  Meet the leader at 0800 and bird until 1300.  For details on the trip and directions, please register, since space on the bus is limited.  Early migrants and waterfowl are expected to be seen on this popular trip.

 

Good Birding,

Joyce Takamine

Boulder