Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 23 July 2017

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler:             Joyce Takamine

e-mail:                 RBA AT cobirds.org

Date:                    July 23, 2017

This is the Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, July 23 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)

Barrow’s Goldeneye (Chaffee)

Ruddy Duck (Cheyenne)

Northern Bobwhite (*Logan)

Lesser Prairie-Chicken (*Cheyenne)

Yellow-billed Cuckoo (*Kiowa)

Black Swift (*Boulder)

Semipalmated Plover (Bent)

Mountain Plover (Weld)

Long-billed Curlew (Bent, *Kiowa)

Semipalmated Sandpiper (Bent, *Kiowa)

Solitary Sandpiper (*Logan)

Black Tern (El Paso, *Kiowa)

Common Loon (Ouray)

Mississippi Kite (Baca, Cheyenne, *El Paso)

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 (Gunnison, Mesa)

EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE (*Logan)

Least Flycatcher (Cheyenne, Douglas, *Logan)

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)

Lucy’s Warbler (*Montezuma)

Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Baca)

Canyon Towhee (Baca, *El Paso)

Brewer’s Sparrow (Arapahoe)

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)

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.

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 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.

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.

EL PASO COUNTY:

---On July 19 at Ramah Reservoir SWA, Cheri Phillips reported Black Tern, 2 Red-headed Woodpecker and 4 Dickcissel.

---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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Denver Field Ornithologists Field Trips  

The DFO Field Trip for Sunday, July 23 will be to Morrison Nature Center at Star K Ranch led by A>J. Gest (offsetaj AT comcast.net; 303-994-2420).  Directions:  Meet at 0800.  Center is located south of I-70 on Smith Road between Chambers.  Address 16002 E. Smith Road.  Bring snacks, water, and binoculars; scopes are optional.  Portable toilets on site.  Register online or contact leader.

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

Good Birding,

Joyce Takamine

Boulder