Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, June 6, 2019.

[Gregg Goodrich]

Date:  Thursday, June 6, 2019

Compiler:  Gregg Goodrich greggg...@gmail.com

Phone:  303-655-9135

E-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org

This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, June 6, sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists. Observers have been helpful by reporting sightings and updates on COBirds. Thanks!

CAPITAL LETTERS are used for very rare species, as listed by the Colorado Bird Records Committee at the CFO website.

(*) indicates new information on this species.

For information on birds seen today, go to cobirds.org and scroll to the bottom for “Recent eBird Sightings”.

Rare, out-of-place and out-of-season species include:

RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD (LARIMER)

COMMON GALLINULE (*Larimer)

LAUGHING GULL (Kiowa)

ARCTIC TERN (Pueblo)

Sprague’s Pipit (Weld)

Baltimore Oriole (Pitkin)

Black-and-white Warbler (Chaffee, *Douglas)

Prothonotary Warbler (*Routt)

Nashville Warbler (Larimer)

Magnolia Warbler (Jefferson)

Blackburnian Warbler (Larimer)

Chestnut-sided Warbler (Jefferson, Pitkin, Pueblo)

Black-throated Blue Warbler (Lincoln)

Palm Warbler (Boulder)

Yellow-throated Warbler (*Pueblo)

Black-throated Green Warbler (Boulder)

Scarlet Tanager (Boulder, *El Paso)

BOULDER COUNTY:

—-On June 1 a singing male Black-throated Green Warbler was reported from Sawhill Ponds (south of Lake # 5 and west of Lake # 4) by Paula Hansley.

—-On May 30 a (m) Scarlet Tanager flew over a home in Gunbarrel reported by Mike Patterson.

—-On May 30 a Palm Warbler  at Pleasant View Marsh reported by Ernest Crvich on May 28.

CHAFFEE COUNTY:

—-On June 4 a Black-and-white Warbler was reported at Lower Sand Creek by Greg Mihalik.

DOUGLAS COUNTY:

—-On June 5 a Black-and-white Warbler reported at Castlewood Canyon Rd by Cynthia Kristensen.

EL PASO COUNTY:

—-On June 2 a Scarlet Tanager was reported at a private home by Michael Rogers.

JEFFERSON COUNTY:

—-On June 1 a Magnolia Warbler was reported at Lair O’ the Bear Park by Mike Blatchley.

—-On May 30 a Chestnut-sided Warbler at Main Reservoir reported on May 29 by Rob Raker.

KIOWA COUNTY:

—On June 2 (2) Laughing Gulls were reported from Neenoshe Reservoir by Steve Mlodinow.

LARIMER COUNTY:

—On June 5 the Common Gallinule continues at Wellington SWA—Schware Unit. Present for over a month now, it was first seen by Josh Bruening on April 29 at the pond north of Larimer CR 60. Drive about 1/4 mile east of Morris Reservoir, at the pond on the east end of hedgerows, on the north side of the road.

—On June 4 Blackburnian Warbler was reported at Horsetooth Reservoir (2831-3199 Centennial Dr.) by Nolan Bunting.

—-On June 1 a RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD was reported at the Moraine Park Visitor Center in Rocky Mountain National Park by Anisha Pockharel. The Park’s only previous eBIrd record was from Moraine Park on 9/7/04.

LINCOLM COUNTY:

—-On June 2 a Black-throated Blue Warbler was reported at D Ave and Hillcrest Dr in Limon by Steve Bauer.

PITKIN COUNTY:

—-On June 3 a Chestnut-sided Warbler reported by Anders Weiss at private home.

—-On May 31 a Baltimore Oriole was reported along Hwy 133 north of Redstone by Mary Harris.

PUEBLO COUNTY:

—-On June 5 a long-staying Yellow-throated Warbler was reported at Roselawn Cemetery in Blende, near the west entrance off Aspen Street.  First reported on May 11 by Evan Carlson.

—-On May 31 an ARCTIC TERN was reported from Chico Basin Ranch by John Drummond.

—-On May 30 a Chestnut-sided Warbler was reported from Arkansas River near Reservoir Rd; first reported May 28 by Rick Clawges.

ROUTT COUNTY:

—-On June 5 the Prothonotary Warbler with droopy left wing continues along the Yampa River on the flotsam behind the Botanic Garden and the Osprey nest reported by Dave and Ann Jones on May 22.

WELD COUNTY:

—-On June 2 Sprague’s Pipit was reported by Doug Ward at Weld County Rds 87 & 112 (stub road 1mi north of the main CR110).

Upcoming DFO Field Trips...trip details on dfobirds.org

Bailey Nesting Area

Thursday, June 6

5:30 AM - 5:00 PM 

Chris Blakeslee & Paul Slingsby ( ChrisABla AT aol.com;  303-694-4670)

Upper Beaver Meadows - Rocky Mountain National Park

Friday, June 7

7:30 AM - 3:00 PM

Bill Wuerthele    (wuerthel AT ecentral.com or 303-333-2519)

Eldorado Canyon SP

Sunday, June 9

6:00 AM - 1:30 PM

Karen Drozda (drozforte AT AOL.com or 303-388-0891)

Roxborough State Park

Sunday, June 9

7:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Allison Kondler (birdtrills AT gmail.com or 303-904-9140)

Cherry Creek State Park - wetlands loop

Sunday, June 9

8:00 AM - 12:00 noon

Karen von Saltza (kvonsaltza at yahoo.com or 303-941-4881)

Good birding,

Gregg Goodrich, Denver

303-655-9135

gregggoodrich AT gmail.com