Colorado Rare Bird Alert, June 16, 2013

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler: Joyce Takamine

Date:       June 16, 2013

email:      rba AT cobirds.org

phone:     303-659-8750

This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, June 16, 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):

Pacific Loon (El Paso)

LEAST BITTERN (Boulder, *Fremont)

TRICOLORED HERON (*Fremont)

Green Heron (*Fremont)

Lesser Black-backed Gull (*El Paso)

Least Tern (*Weld)

POMARINE JAEGER (Park)

LESSER NIGHTHAWK (El Paso)

ACORN WOODPECKER (Pueblo)

Eastern Phoebe (Boulder, Las Animas)

PHILADELPHIA VIREO (Huerfano)

Ovenbird (Douglas)

Northern Parula (Fremont)

Rufous-crowned Sparrow (*Boulder)

Black-throated Sparrow (Fremont)

HEPATIC TANAGER (Huerfano)

Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Bent, Boulder, Washington)

Indigo Bunting (Boulder, Douglas)

EASTERN MEADOWLARK (*Boulder)

BENT COUNTY:

--At Temple Grove on June 6, Moss reported a m Rose-breasted Grosbeak.

 

BOULDER COUNTY:

--On June 15, Mlodinow reported a singing Rufous-crowned Sparrow on the hwy going into Lyons from the East and west of McConnell Drive (U Pump it station).  It was singing from the bluffs on the N side of the hwy.  It is difficult to hear above the

heavy traffic and beware of the poison ivy on the N side.  

--On June 13, Kaempfer reported that Nunes found a LEAST BITTERN at Sawhill Ponds in Boulder.

--On June 10, Nunes reported a singing EASTERN MEADOWLARK on Beech Open Space east of Hwy 36 and S of Neva Road.  On June 15, Mlodinow  reported the EASTERN MEADOWLARK on Beech Open Space.

--On June 9, Burke reported a singing Indigo Bunting on Eldorado Open Space.

--On June 8, Floyd reported an Eastern Phoebe at the 63rd St bridge over the St Vrain River.  

--On June 6, Werthele reported a singing m Rose-breasted Grosbeak by the Gregory Canyon parking area.  On June 9, Floyd reported a noisy m Rose-breasted Grosbeak by the Gregory Canyon trailhead.

--On June 5, Norfleet reported that the Boulder Bird Club Wednesday Roadrunners saw two m Rose-breasted Grosbeaks in Louisville.  One was by Callahan Open Space and the other near the SW corner of Monarch Court and Franklin Ave.

DOUGLAS COUNTY:

--At Roxborough SP on June 8, Matheus reported a m Indigo Bunting near the visitor's center and an Ovenbird.

EL PASO COUNTY:

--On June 2, Hinds reported a Pacific Loon at  Big Johnson near the dirt parking area.  On June 14, Peterson reported that the Pacific Loon continues at Big Johnson.  

--On June 14, Peterson reported a 2nd-cyc Lesser Black-backed Gull at Big Johnson.

--On June 14, Peterson reported a f LESSER NIGHTHAWK and possibly a male at Big Johnson in the SW corner below the lower parking lot.

FREMONT COUNTY:

--On June 14, Moss reported a Green Heron and TRICOLORED HERON at Holcim Wetlands.  The TRICOLORED HERON was on the far west pond.  On June 15, Moss reported that the TRICOLORED HERON continued and a LEAST BITTERN was found.

Please do not use playback for the bittern since it is likely breeding there.  On June 15, Neldner reported that the Green Heron continued at Holcim Wetlands.

--On June 9 and 11, Rich Miller reported a singing Northern Parula at the W end of the Riverwalk parking area at the end of Sell Ave.

--Black-throated Sparrows were reported by Walbek near Florence in cholla E of the Federal prison on June 6.

HUERFANO COUNTY:

--On June 6, Walbek reported a HEPATIC TANAGER at I-25 and exit 42.  On June 8, Dowell reported the HEPATIC TANAGER

at the same spot and Mark Miller found a singing male PHILADELPHIA VIREO just down the road from the tanager spot.

The vireo is very pale.

LAS ANIMAS COUNTY:

--An Eastern Phoebe was reported by Dowell at Apishapa SWA on June 8.

PARK COUNTY:

--A POMARINE JAEGER was reported by DeFonso at Antero Reservoir on June 11.  It was at the main SE fishing/camping area.

PUEBLO COUNTY:

--On June 8, Cowan reported an ACORN WOODPECKER in the big dead tree by the parking area at Pueblo Mountain Park near Beulah.

WASHINGTON COUNTY:

--On June 9, Lee reported a m Rose-breasted Grosbeak at Last Chance.

WELD COUNTY:

--An ad Least Tern was reported by Mlodinow on gravel bars in ponds along the entrance (CR 7) to St. Vrain SP on June 15.

 

DFO FIELD TRIPS:

The DFO Field Trip for Sunday, June 16 will be to the Lyons Area led by Raymond Davis.  Meet at the Lyons Park-n-Ride just south of 4th and Main St. (by the skateboard park and library) at 0830.  Plan on walking level ground for a mile or three, a bit of car birding, and then eating lunch on Davis's decks until we get bored.  Wheelchair accessible.

Good Birding,

Joyce Takamine