Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 24 July 2017 *

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler:             Joyce Takamine

e-mail:                 RBA AT cobirds.org

Date:                    July 24, 2017

This is the Rare Bird Alert for Monday, July 24 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.

Trumpeter Swan (Archuleta)

Wood Duck (Kiowa)

Mallard (Mexican Intergrade) (Weld)

Bufflehead (*Larimer)

Barrow’s Goldeneye (Chaffee)

Ruddy Duck (Cheyenne)

Northern Bobwhite (Logan, *Weld)

Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Cheyenne)

Yellow-billed Cuckoo *Kiowa)

Black Swift (*Boulder)

Semipalmated Plover (Bent)

Mountain Plover (Weld)

Upland Sandpiper (*Larimer)

Long-billed Curlew (Bent, Kiowa)

Stilt Sandpiper (*El Paso))

Semipalmated Sandpiper (Bent, Kiowa)

Solitary Sandpiper (*El Paso, *Jefferson, Logan)

Black Tern (El Paso, Kiowa)

Common Loon (Ouray)

Mississippi Kite (Baca, Cheyenne, *El Paso, *Pueblo)

Cattle Egret (*Jefferson)

Lewis’s Woodpecker (*Arculeta)

Red-headed Woodpecker (Adams, Baca, Cheyenne, *El Paso, Kiowa, Logan, Weld)

Acorn Woodpecker (Pueblo)

Williamson’s Sapsucker  (Pueblo)

Ladder-backed Woodpecker (Baca)

American Three-toed Woodpecker (*Boulder, Gunnison, Mesa)

EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE (Logan)

Least Flycatcher (Cheyenne, Douglas, Logan)

Gray Flycatcher (*Archuleta)

Black Phoebe (*Boulder)

Eastern Phoebe (Baca, Boulder, Douglas, Jefferson)

Cassin’s Kingbird (Baca)

Bell’s Vireo (Logan)

Chihuahuan Raven (Baca, Fremont, Kiowa)

Purple Martin (Las Animas, Mesa)

Pacific Wren (*Boulder)

Bewick’s Wren (Baca,*Montezuma)

Curve-billed Thrasher (Baca, El Paso, Fremont)

McCown’s Longspur (*Larimer)

Lucy’s Warbler (Montezuma)

Yellow-throated Warbler (*Pueblo)

Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Baca)

Canyon Towhee (Baca, El Paso)

Brewer’s Sparrow (Arapahoe)

Lark Bunting (*Alamosa, *Eagle)

BAIRD’S SPARROW (*Larimer)

Fox Sparrow (Boulder, Larimer, San Juan)

Summer Tanager (Baca, Montezuma)

Indigo Bunting (Kiowa)

Dickcissel (Bent, Boulder, Chaffee, Cheyenne, El Paso, Kiowa, Las Animas)

Bobolink (Boulder)

Great-tailed Grackle (Kiowa)

Baltimore Oriole (Logan, Weld)

ALAMOSA COUNTY:

---On July 23 at Alamosa NWR, Courtenay Lou Harding reported Lark Buntings.

ARAPAHOE COUNTY:

---On July 19 at Parker Jordan Centennial Open Space, Cynthia Madsen and David Hill reported juv

Brewer’s Sparrow.

ARCHULETA COUNTY:

---On July 22 at Pinon Lake Reservoir, Brandon Nooner reported Trumpeter Swan and 2 Lewis’s Woodpeckers.

---On July 23 at Navajo SP and Reservoir, Charles Martinez reported Lewis’s Woodpecker and 2 Gray Flycatchers.

BACA COUNTY:

---On July 18 at Cottonwood Canyon, Evan Carlson reported 6 Mississippi Kites, Red-headed Woodpecker, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Eastern Phoebe, 4 Cassin’s Kingbirds, 3 Bewick’s Wrens, Rufous-crowned Sparrow, 4 Canyon Towhee, Summer Tanager.

---On July 18 at Cottonwood Canyon (southern loop), Evan Carlson reported 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers, 3 Cassin’s Kingbirds, 4 Chihuahuan Ravesn, Curve-billed Thrasher, and 2 Rufous-crowned Sparrows.

BENT COUNTY:

---On July 21 at Adobe Creek Reservoir, Cole Wolf reported Semipalmated Plover, 18 Long-billed Curlew,

8 Semipalmated Sandpipers, and 3 Diickcissel. 

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 19 at Brainard Lake, Matt Hofeditz and Boulder Bird Club reported Fox Sparrow.

---On July 22 at Boulder Creek at 75th St., David Blue reported Eastern Phoebe.  On July 23 at Boulder Creek at 75th St., Alexander Brown reported Black Phoebe.

CHAFFEE COUNTY:

---On July 17 on CR 128 in Poncha Springs, Van Remsen reported 2 Dickcissels.

---On July 17 at Sands Lake SWA, Van Remsen reported Barrow’s Goldeneye.

CHEYENNE COUNTY:

---On July 18 in Kit Carson (town), Steve Mlodinow reported 4 Red-headed Woodpeckers.

---On July 18 in Cheyenne Wells, Steve Mlodinow reported Ruddy Ducky and Mississippi Kite.

---On July 18 on CR 9 between CR DD and CR GG, Steve Mlodinow reported 2 Least Flycathcers and 22 Dickcissels.

---On July 22 on CR 2 N of CR M, Steve Mlodinow reported 2 Lesser Prairie-Chickens

DOUGLAS COUNTY:

---On July 18 at Chatfield SP Platte River Parking Area, David Suddjian and DFO field trip reported 4 Eastern Phoebe at nest at restroom (1 ad, 3 good size nestlings) and 2 Least Flycatchers.

EAGLE COUNTY:

---On July 23 at Gypsum near Eagle Airport, Tom McConnell reported family of Lark Buntings; Vic Zerbi and Joann RIggle refound the Lark Buntings.

EL PASO COUNTY:

---On July 19 at Ramah Reservoir SWA, Cheri Phillips reported Black Tern, 2 Red-headed Woodpecker and 4 Dickcissel.  On July 23 at Ramah Reservoir SWA, David Tonnessen reported Stilt Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpipers,  Red-headed Woodpecker and 14 Dickcissels.

---On July 18 at Adams Open Space in Fountain, Tanja Britton reported Mississippi Kite.

---On July 21 at Venetucci Farm, David Rudin reported a flyover Mississippi Kite.

---On July 22 on Birdsall Road, Scott Somershoe reported Curve-billed Thrasher and 9 Canyon Towhee.

---On July 22 at Fountain Creek Regional Park, Robb Hinds reported Mississippi Kite.

---On July 23 at Squirrel Creek Road Reservoir, Tanja Britton reported Mississippi Kite.

---On July 23 at Pi Ute Park, Diana Beatty reported 2 Mississippi Kites.

FREMONT COUNTY:

---On July 17 at Siloam Road, Evan Carlson reported 2 Chihuahuan Raven and Curve-billed Thrasher.

JEFFERSON COUNTY:

---On July 17 at Deer Creek at W Buckhorn Rd, David Suddjian reported Eastern Phoebe.

---On July 23 at Tucker Lake, Lorraine Lanning reported Cattle Egret and Solitary Sandpiper.

KIOWA COUNTY:

---On July 17 at Neenoshe Reservoir, Gloria Nikolai reported 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers and 2 Chihuahuan Ravens.  On July 22 at Neenoshe Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Long-billed Curlew, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Red-headed Woodpecker, Indigo Bunting and 445 Great-tailed Grackles.

---On July 22 at Adobe Creek Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Semipalmated Sandpiper and 6 Dickcissel.

---On July 22 at Lower Queens Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported f Wood Duck, 3 Black Terns, and Dickcissel.

LARIMER COUNTY:

---On July 20 at Soapstone Prairie NA, Derek Lecy reported hearing BAIRD’S SPARROW.  On July 23 at Soapstone Prairie NA, Adam Veseley, Chris Gilbert, and Renee Casias reported McCown’s Longspur and 2 BAIRD’S SPARROWS.

---On July 23 at Rigden Reservoir (Strauss Cabin Lake), David Wade reported f Bufflehead.

---On July 23 at Wellington SWA Schware Unit, Nick Komar and Austin Hess heard Upland Sandpiper.

LAS ANIMAS COUNTY:

---On July 20 on CR 42 west of Aguilar, Brandon Percival reported m Purple Martin and 6 Dickcissels.

LOGAN COUNTY:

---On July 22 at Tamarack Ranch SWA, Heather and Riley Morris reported 5 Northern Bobwhite, 4 Solitary Sandpipers, 19 Red-headed Woodpeckers, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, Least Flycatcher, 2 Bell’s Vireo, 2 Baltimore Orioles.

MESA COUNTY:

---On July 19 at Fruita Reservoir #1, Mike Henwood reported 2 American Three-toed Woodpeckers (ad m and fledging)

---On July 20 on Grand Mesa, David Price reported 2 American Three-toed Woodpeckers.

---On July 22 NE of Collbran where 64.3 Rd enters first Aspen Grove, Nic Korte reported 2 m Purple Martins.

MONTEZUMA COUNTY:

---On July 22 on Road G (37.3369, -108.8347), Steve Larson reported 2 Lucy’s Warblers and Bewick’s Wren.

PUEBLO COUNTY:

---On July 17 at Pueblo Mt Park, Evan Carlson reported Acorn Woodpecker.  On July 22 at Pueblo Mt Park, Van Truan reported Acorn Woodpecker.

---On July 23 at 19th and Court St in Pueblo, Van Truan reported 2 Mississippi Kites and Yellow-throated Warbler.

WELD COUNTY:

---On July 18 on CR 89 just N of Hwy 14, Noah Kuck reported Mountain Plover.

---On July 22 at Behren’s Reservoir, Gene Rutherford reported Mallard (Mexican intergrade).

---On July 22 at S Platte River near CR 61, Gene Rutherford reported Red-headed Woodpecker and 3 Baltimore Orioles (1 f, 2 1st fall m).

---On July 23 at CR 37 between CR 86 and CR 88, Gene Rutherford reported Northern Bobwhite.

Denver Field Ornithologists Field Trips  

The DFO Field Trip for Saturday, July 29 will be to Bann Lakes SWA led by Mark Amershek (mamershek AT msn.com; 303-329-8646).  Meet at the wildlife area at 0700 for a half-day trip.  Take I-76 east; at the Hudson exit (exit 31), go four miles east on CO 52.  The main parking lot is on the left (north) just past CR 53.  

     Will bird both the north and south sides of the area.  There is moderate o- and off-trail hiking of about 2 to 3 miles.  Scopes would be helpful but not necessary.  Potential for a hawk/owl search of the DIA loop in the afternoon.  Register online or contact leader.

The DFO Field Trip for Sunday, July 30 will be to South Platte Park led by Gregg Goodrich (GreggGoodrich AT gmai.com; 303-665-9135).  Meet at 0800 at the south end of South Platte Park near C-470.  From C-470 take Platte Cany Rd/SouthPlatte Park exit.  From Platte Canyon Rd at Depew St, turn southeast onto the entrance road for South Platte Park.  Continue past a 90-degree left tur and the first parking lot, and meet in the second parking lot.  

    This is an eBird mobile training field trip.  You will need a smart phone and need to set up an account with eBird and download the app to your phone.  Register online or contact leader.

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

Good Birding,

Joyce Takamine

Boulder