Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, May 18
Dick Schottler
Compiler:
Dick Schottler
Date: Report for Saturday, May 18, 2013, updated at
8:30 AM
email: rba AT cobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Report for Saturday,
May 18, 2013 at 0845 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):
Neotropic
Cormorant (*Weld)
Glossy Ibis (Jefferson, Weld)
Black-bellied
Plover (Weld)
Piping Plover (Phillips)
Whimbrel (*Weld)
Cassin's Vireo (Adams)
Gray-cheeked
Thrush (*El Paso/Pueblo)
Veery (Weld)
Ovenbird (*El Paso/Pueblo)
Worm-eating Warbler (Prowers)
Northern Waterthrush (El Paso/Pueblo, Jefferson,
Weld)
Blue-winged Warbler (*El Paso/Pueblo)
Black
& white Warbler (*El Paso/Pueblo)
BAY-BREASTED WARBLER (*Bent)
Chestnut sided-Warbler (El Paso/Pueblo, *Washington)
Blackpoll Warbler (Jefferson)
Tennessee Warbler (Adams)
Nashville Warbler (El Paso/Pueblo, Prowers)
Northern Parula (El Paso, El Paso/Pueblo)
Blackburnian Warbler (La Plata)
Townsend's Warbler (El Paso/Pueblo)
Black-throated Green Warbler (Boulder)
Palm Warbler (El Paso/Pueblo, Larimer)
Northern Cardinal (*Jefferson)
Bobolink (Boulder)
ADAMS
COUNTY:
--On May13, Breitsch reports a Tennessee Warbler and Cassin's Vireo seen at Barr Lake S.P..
BENT COUNTY:
--On
May 16 Nelson reports a female
BAY-BREASTED WARBLER at Van's Grove.
BOULDER COUNTY:
--On
May 12, Nunes reports a a singing male BLACK-THROATED
GREEN WARBLER in the Ponderosa Pines at the corner of
Tandra & East Moorhead Circle. From Table Mesa, turn
south on Tantra, & go down the street until you reach
the forced right hand turn onto E Moorhead. The pine trees
are on your right.
--On May15, Minner-Lee reports several Bobolinks seen in
the vicinity of the Open Space & Mt. Parks Cherryvale
admin. bldg.
--EL PASO/PUEBLO COUNTIES:
--On May 15, Percival reports the following warblers at Chico Basin Ranch (hereafter CBR) (fee area): Ovenbird, No. Waterthrush, Chestnut-sided, Nashville, No. Parula, Townsend's, and western Palm among others. Also seen were a White-throated Sparrow and Bobolink.--On May 16, Walbek reports a Blue-winged Warbler seen near the banding station at CBR.
--On May 16 Brown reports the following among birds banded at CBR: 2 Ovenbirds, 2 Black-and-white Warblers, and a Gray-cheeked Thrush. A male Black-and-white Warbler was banded on the 17th.
JEFFERSON COUNTY:
--On
May 16, Schottler reports that the singing male Northern
Cardinal, first reported on May 10 along the Tree Bridge
Trail south of Clear Creek in the Wheatridge Greenbelt,
was still present. The trail starts roughly 50 yards W
of the footbridge over Clear Creek at Prospect Park.
--On May 14, Hackos reports a Blackpoll Warbler at
Belmar Park, Lakewood.
LA PLATA COUNTY:
On May 13, Beatty reports a Blackburnian Warbler in Durango, first found by Morris on May 6 and still being seen near the Durango Public Library.
LARIMER COUNTY:
--On May 12, Matthews reports an "Eastern" Palm Warbler at Lake Estes.PHILLIPS COUNTY:
--On May 15, Linfield reports a Piping Plover on a small pool between CR 41 and the Holyoke airport.
PROWERS COUNTY:
--On May 13, Komar reports these birds from Lamar: Nashville Warbler at the cemetery south of LCCW and Worm-eating Warbler at the High School grove.
WASHINGTON COUNTY:
--On May 17, Kellner's group reported male Chestnut-sided Warblers at the Washington County Golf Course Park in Akron and at Last Chance.
WELD COUNTY:
--On May 13 Erthal reported 6 Black-bellied Plovers and 2 Whimbrel seen along CR 48 south of Lower Latham Reservoir. One Whimbrel was still present on May 16.--On May 15, Leatherman reported 2 Glossy Ibis seen with White-faced Ibis at Crom Lake (CR 31 1/2 mi s. of CR 90).
--On May 16, Mlodinow reports that a Neotropic Cormorant was seen along the entrance road to St. Vrain State Park.
DFO FIELD TRIPS:
--The DFO field trip for Sunday, May 19 is to
Roxborough State Park. The leader is Doris Cruze
(303-798-8072). Meet the leader at 0800 at the Park
visitor center. Parks Pass is required.
Please consult the DFO website: http://dfobirders.org/wordpress/denver-field-ornithologists/field-trips-and-counts/scheduled-field-trips/may-2013-field-trips/ , for information on the field trips and the leaders to call.
Good Birding,
Dick
Schottler
Unincorporated
Jefferson County