Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 13 July 2018

[Joyce Takamine]

Date:        July 13, 2018

Compiler:   Joyce Takamine

e-mail:      RBA AT cobirds.org  

This is the Rare Bird Alert for Friday, July 13 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 changed.

Redhead (Arapahoe)

Ring-necked Duck (Kiowa)

Lesser Scaup (Kiowa)

Bufflehead (Boulder)

Barrow’s Goldeneye (*Clear Creek)

Hooded Merganser (Adams, Arapahoe, Park)

Northern Bobwhite (Weld)

Sharp-tailed Grouse (Weld)

Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Otero)

Greater Roadrunner (Otero)

Black Swift (*Boulder, Pueblo)

Chimney Swift (Jefferson)

COMMON GALLINULE (*Larimer)

American Coot (Phillips)

Black-necked Stilt (Kiowa, Park)

Snowy Plover (Kiowa, Park)

Long-billed Curlew (Arapahoe)

Marbled Godwit (Park)

Baird’s Sandpiper (El Paso, Larimer, Park, Weld)

Least Sandpiper (Kiowa, Larimer)

Western Sandpiper (Weld)

Solitary Sandpiper (Weld)

Lesser Yellowlegs (Kiowa, Larimer, Park, Weld)

Willet (Douglas, Jefferson, Kiowa, Ouray, Park, Weld)

Greater Yellowlegs (Kiowa, Larimer, Park, Weld)

Lesser Black-backed Gull  (Larimer, Weld)

Caspian Tern (Boulder)

Snowy Egret (Eagle)

Cattle Egret (Kiowa, *Pueblo)

Green Heron (Denver, Larimer)

White-faced Ibis (Eagle, *Summit)

Mississippi Kite (Adams, El Paso)

Northern Harrier (*Denver)

Northern Goshawk (El Paso, Jefferson)

Lewis’s Woodpecker (Fremont, Ouray)

Acorn Woodpecker (La Plata)

Williamson’s Sapsucker (Pueblo)

Ladder-backed Woodpecker (Fremont)

American Three-toed Woodpecker (*Boulder, Park)

Least Flycatcher (*Eagle)

Hammond’s Flycatcher (Weld)

Gray Flycatcher (Ouray)

Cordilleran Flycatcher (*Arapahoe)

Black Phoebe (Adams, El Paso, Garfield, Ouray)

Eastern Phoebe (Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson)

Ash-throated Flycatcher (El Paso)

Red-breasted Nuthatch (Arapahoe, Weld)

Gray Vireo (Ouray)

Yellow-throated Vireo (Weld)

Warbling Vireo (Eastern) (Pueblo)

Red-eyed Vireo (Adams, Weld)

Canada Jay (Gray Jay) (*Clear Creek, Mesa)

Common Raven (Weld)

Purple Martin (Mesa)

Bushtit (*Adams, Weld)

Canyon Wren (Gunnison, *Otero)

Pacific Wren (*Boulder, *Larimer)

Marsh Wren (Gunnison)

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Montrose)

Eastern Bluebird (Otero)

Swainson’s Thrush (*Montezuma)

Curve-billed Thrasher (El Paso, Fremont)

Sage Thrasher (Clear Creek)

American Pipit (Gunnison)

Brown-capped Rosy-Finch (*Clear Creek, Gunnison)

Red Crossbill (Park)

Lesser Goldfinch (Boulder)

McCown’s Longspur (Larimer)

Rufous-crowned Sparrow (*Otero)

Cassin’s Sparrow (Boulder, Fremont)

Chipping Sparrow (*Arapahoe)

Field Sparrow (Larimer, Weld)

Lark Sparrow (El Paso)

Black-throated Sparrow (Fremont, *Larimer, Montrose)

Lark Bunting (Boulder)

Grasshopper Sparrow (Jefferson)

Fox Sparrow (Gunnison)

White-throated Sparrow (Weld)

Orchard Oriole (Weld)

Baltimore Oriole (*Prowers)

Brown-headed Cowbird (Arapahoe)

Lucy’s Warbler (Montezuma)

American Redstart (Douglas)

Black-throated Blue Warbler (Weld)

Yellow-throated Warbler (Pueblo)

Grace’s Warbler (Mesa, Pueblo)

Black-throated Gray Warbler (Montrose)

Indigo Bunting (Boulder, Garfield, Mesa, Montrose)

Dickcissel (Alamosa, Jefferson, Kiowa, Rio Grande, Weld)

ADAMS COUNTY:

---On July 7 at Morrison Nature Center at Star K Ranch, Arthur Gest reported Mississippi Kite.  On July 10 at Morrison Nature Center at Star K Ranch, Andrew Dolan reported Bushtit.

---On July 7 on Ponds S of Big Dry Creek Parks, Matt Hofeditz reported 2 juv Hooded Mergansers.

---On July 8 at McKay Lake, Matt Hofeditz reported 2 Bushtit.

---On July 9 at Barr Lake SP, Daniel Irons and Max Nootbaar reported Red-eyed Vireo.

---On July 10 at Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR Lower Derby Lake, David Chernack reported Black Phoebe.  On July 12 at Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR, Candice Johnson reported 5 Bushtits near Woodland Trail.

ALAMOSA COUNTY:

---On July 7 at CR CC and CR 22 S of Alamosa, John Rawinski reported Dickcissels.

ARAPAHOE COUNTY:

---On July 7 on High Line Canal Trail – S University Blvd to E Orchard Rd, Jared Del Rosso reported 2 Cordilleran Flycatcher feeding Cowbird.  On July 9 on High Line Canal Trail – S University Blvd to E Orchard Rd, Cynthia Madsen reported 2 Cordilleran Flycatchers, but no Brown Cowbird; Jared Del Rosso reported 1 Cordilleran Flycatcher.  On July 10 at High Line Canal Trail – S University Blvd to E Orchard Rd, Jared Del Rosso reported 2 Cordilleran Flycatchers and no Brown Cowbird.  On July 12 at High Line Canal Trail – S University Blvd to E Orchard Rd, Cynthia Madsen reported 2 Cordilleran Flycatchers; Pamela Graber reported Cordilleran Flycatcher.

---On July 5 at Littleton Cemetery, David Suddjian reported 2 Chipping Sparrows.  On July 7 at Littleton Cemetery David Suddjian reported 5 Chipping Sparrows.  On July 8 at Littleton Cemetery David Suddjian reported 6 Chipping Sparrows.  On July 12 at Littleton Cemetery, David Suddjian reported 2 Chipping Sparrows.

---On July 4 at Centennial Park, Edward Donnan reported Hooded Merganser.

---On July 6 at Willow Spring OS, Jared Del Rosso reported Long-billed Curlew.

---On July 7 at Marjorie Perry Nature Preserve, Jared Del Rosso reported 2 Chipping Sparrows.

---On July 8 at Cherry Creek SP Cottonwood Creek Wetlands, Gregg Goodrich and his DFO Field Trip reported 2 Redhead.

---On July 12 at Peakview Ct at S Prince St, Littleton, David Suddjian reported Chipping Sparrow.

BOULDER COUNTY:

----On July 5 at Lagerman Reservoir, David Ely, John Rutenbeck, Kathy Mihm Dunning, David Haskell, and Katie Lehman reported Caspian Tern.  On July 6 at Lagerman Reservoir, Peter Gent, Jack and Ryan Bushong, and Steve Rash reported Caspian Tern.

---On July 5 at Dodd Reservoir, Katie Lehman and David Haskell reported Caspian Tern caught a fish and headed to Lagerman Reservoir.

---On July 7 at Golden Pond Park and NA, Keith Leland reported Bufflehead.

---On July 8 on Gold Hill Road at mm 10.4 W of Gold Hill, Chip Clouse reported 2 American Three-toed Woodpeckers.

---On July 11 at Little Gaynor Lake, John Rutenbeck reported Bufflehead.

---On July 12 at Rocky Mountain National Park Wild Basin, Dan Zmolek reported 5 Black Swift near Ouzel Falls, American Three-toed Woodpecker just past Calypso Falls, and Pacific Wren near Calypso Falls.

CLEAR CREEK COUNTY:

---On July 9 at Guanella Pass, Bruce Cyganowski reported Sage Thrasher.

---On July 12 from Echo Lake to Summit Lake, Jonathan and Kathy Haley reported 3 Barrow’s Goldeneyes, 3 Canada Jays, and 2 Brown-capped Rosy-Finch.

DENVER COUNTY:

---On July 7 at Bluff Lake Nature Center, James McCall reported Green Heron.  On July 12 at Bluff Lake Nature Center, Kenna Sue Trickey reported Northern Harrier.

DOUGLAS COUNTY:

---On July 5 at Roxborough SP, Chris Gilbert reported f American Redstart.

---On July 7 at Platte Canyon Reservoir, Diane Roberts reported Eastern Phoebe. 

---On July 10 at Chatfield SP, downstream of Kingfisher Bridge, Anna Troth and Gregg Goodrich reported Willet.

EAGLE COUNTY:

---On July 6 at Gypsum Ponds, JoAnn Riggle reported Snowy Egret, White-faced Ibis, and Least Flycatcher.  On July 12 at Gypsum Ponds, JoAnn Riggle reported Least Flycatcher.

EL PASO COUNTY:

---On July 5 at Cheyenne Mountain SP, Tanja Britton reported Ash-throated Flycatcher.  On July 10 at Cheyenne Mountain SP, Jan Albright, Jim Merritt, Richard Bunn, and Tanja Britton reported 2 Ash-throated Flycatchers.

---On July 8 at Adams Open Space, Alison Hixon reported Mississippi Kite.

---On July 5 at Chico Basin Ranch, Cassidy, Robert, Tracy, and Tyler Ficker reported Curve-billed Thrasher.

---On July 8 at Kettle Lakes, John Drummond reported Black Phoebe.  On July 11 at Kettle Lakes, Gloria Nikolai reported Black Phoebe.

---On July 8 at Rampart Range Road N, Terence Berger and Monday Birders reported Northern Goshawk.

---On July 10 at Rock Ledge Ranch, Gary Koehn reported 2 Ash-throated Flycatchers.

---On July 10 at Cross Creek Regional Park, David Rudin reported Mississippi Kite.

FREMONT COUNTY:

---On July 9 on Siloam Road at CR 110, Marty Mutchler reported Lewis’s Woodpecker, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Curve-billed Thrasher, 3 Cassin’s Sparrows, and Black-throated Sparrow.

GARFIELD COUNTY:

---On July 8 on I 70 E at New Castle, Adam Zions reported Black Phoebe and Indigo Bunting.

GUNNISON COUNTY:

---On July 7 at White River NF, Carbondale, Steven Horvath reported Fox Sparrow and 4 Brown-capped Rosy-Finch.

---On July 8 at McCabes Lane Wetland, Dale Bonk reported 3 Marsh Wren.

---On July 11 at Pine Creek Trail/Morrow Point Reservoir, Bill Harris reported 2 Canyon Wren and American Pipit.

JEFFERSON COUNTY:

---On July 6 at Coal Creek OS, David Hill and Cynthia Madsen reported Grasshopper Sparrow and Dickcissel.  On July 7 at Coal Creek OS, JoAnn Hackos reported 4 Dickcissel.  On July 8 at Coal Creek OS, Christine Alexander reported Dickcissel.  On July 9 at Coal Creek OS, Wendi Fisher reported 2 Dickcissel.  On July 10 at Coal Creek OS, Dedrek Lecy reported 2 Grasshopper Sparrows.

---On July 10 at Staunton SP, Bill Kaempfer reported Northern Goshawk.

---On July 9 and 10 at Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms, Dylan Cooper reported Eastern Phoebe.

---On July 11 at Chatfield S South Platte River Delta, Carold and Carl Trovall reported Willet with injured wing.

KIOWA COUNTY:

---On July 7 at Neenoshe Reservoir, Steve Schmit reported 4 Ring-necked Ducks, Lesser Scaup, 8 Black-necked Stilt, 6 Cattle Egret, 2 Snowy Plover, Least Sandpiper, 2 Greater Yellowlegs, Willet, 3 Lesser Yellowlegs, and Dickcissel.

LA PLATA COUNTY:

---On July 10 at Meadow Road, Rafter J Subdivision, Aaron Keller reported 3 Acorn Woodpeckers.

LARIMER COUNTY:

---On July 1 at Running Deer and Cottonwood Hollow NA, Robert  Beauchamp reported COMMON GALLINULE.  Shenot suggests bringing a ladder to views the bird above the vegetation.   On July 5 at Running Deer NA, Todd Deininger and many other birders reported COMMON GALLINULE and 2 Green Heron; Norm Erthal and Joey Angstman reported Greater Yellowlegs.  On July 7 at Running Deer NA, Steve Stachoswiak, Caroline Olson, Andy Bankert, Cameron Carver, Dean Shoup, and Nick Komar reported COMMON GALLINULE and Green Heron.  On July 8 at Running Deer NA, Eric DeFonso, Jay Breidt, Glenn Walbek, Loch Kilpatrick and Steve Rash reported Green Heron and COMMON GALLINULE.  On July 9 at Running Deer NA, Lisa Edwards and Norm Erthal reported COMMON GALLINULE.  On July 11 at Running Deer, NA, Scott Someshoe and Joe Roller reported COMMON GALLINULE; Somershoe also reported Green Heron.  On July 12 at Running Deer NA, Michael and Diane King, Josh Buening, and Alex Hopping reported COMMON GALLINULE.

---On July 7 on West Creek, David Dowell reported Pacific Wren.  On July 9 on West Creek, Kevin Keirn reported Pacific Wren.  On July 12 on West Creek, Jay Breidt reported Pacific Wren.

---On July 6 at Wellington SWA Cobb Lake Unit, Andy Bankert and Caroline Olson reported 2 Greater Yellowlegs and 3 Lesser Yellowlegs.  On July 11 at Wellington SWA Cobb Lake Unit, Andy Bankert and Caroline Olson reported 2nd year Lesser Black-backed Gull and Lesser Yellowlegs, 3 Baird’s Sandpipers, and 26 Least Sandpipers

---On July 9 at 6375 CR 92, Carr, Cara Joos reported 5 McCown’s Longspurs.

---On July 10 at Red Mountain Open Space, Andy Bankert reported Black-throated Sparrow.

---On July 10 at CSU Environmental Learning Center, David Chernak reported heading COMMON GALLINULE.

---On July 12 at Red Mountain Open Space, Andy Bankert reported Black-throated Sparrow.

MESA COUNTY:

---On July 6 at Telephone Trail Area, Nic Korte reported Williamson’s Sapsucker and Grace’s Warbler.

---On July 6 at Divide Road Thimble Point  FR # 417, Christine Alexander reported 3 Canada Jay, 2 Purple Martin, Grace’s Warbler and Indigo Bunting.

---On July 9 at Uncompahgre NF Whitewater, Matthew Strimas-Mackey and Carol Ortenzio reported Grace’s Warblers.

MONTEZUMA COUNTY:

---On July 9 at Yellowjacket Canyon/G Road, Norm Lewis reported Lucy’s Warbler.

---On July 12 on Priest Gulch Trail, Leslie Stewart reported 3 Swainson’s Thrush.

MONTROSE COUNTY:

---On July 7 on Old Hwy 90 through Silver Hawk Ranch, Coen Dexter and Brenda Wright reported 7 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, 3 Black-throated Gray Warblers, and 2 Indigo Bunting.

---On July 10 at Rose Garden, Brenda Wright and Coen Dexter reported Solitary Sandpiper and Black-throated Sparrow.

OTERO COUNTY:

---On July 12 at Vogel Canyon, John and Bill Vanderpoel reported pair of Rufous-crowned Sparrows and Canyon Wren.

OURAY COUNTY:

---On July 7 at Billy Creek SWA, Norm Lewis reported Black Phoebe.

---On July 9 on Hwy 550 near Ridgway, Doug Kibbe, Mackenzie Goldthwait, and Jeff Dawson reported Lewis’s Woodpecker.

---On July 9 at Ridgway Reservoir and SP, Doug Kibbe, Mackenzie Goldthwait and Jeff Dawson reported Gray Flycatcher, Gray Vireo, and 4 Willet (western).

PARK COUNTY:

---On July 10 at Antero Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported 11 Black-necked Stilt, 3 Snowy Plover, Marbled Godwit, Hooded Merganser, Baird’s Sandpiper, 3 Greater Yellowlegs, Willet, Lesser Yellowlegs.

---On July 10 at Pike NF, Rd 446 from 1.3 mi from CR 56, David Suddjian and DFO Field Trip reported 4 American Three-toed Woodpeckers, 3 Red Crossbill (Lodgepole Pine, Type 5).

---On July 10 at CR 56, 18.7 from US 285, David Suddjian and DFO Field Trip reported 4 Red Crossbills (Lodgepole, type 5)

---On July 10 at Pike NF, Lost Creek Campground, David Suddjian and his DFO Field Trip reported Red Crossbill (Ponderosa Pine or type 2)

PROWERS COUNTY:

---On July 12 on S 13th in Lamar, Dorothy Russell reported Baltimore Oriole.  

PUEBLO COUNTY:

---On July 7 at Pueblo Reservoir Swallows area, Van Truan reported 2 Cattle Egret.

---On July 5 on Swallows Rd in Pueblo, Kevin Ash reported 2 Cattle Egret.

---On July 7 at Valco Ponds SWA, David Tonnessen reported 3 Warbling Vireo (Eastern) (2 ad, 1 imm)

---On July 9 at Pueblo Mountain Park, David Tonnessen reported 3 Grace’s Warblers and 2 Williamson’s Sapsuckers.

---On July 10 at Mineral Palace Park in Pueblo, Brandon Percival reported Yellow-throated Warbler.

---On July 12 at Swallow’s Road Cemetery, Alan and MaryLynne Ketcham reported Cattle Egret.

RIO GRANDE COUNTY:

---On July 7 on Swede Lane 2 Miles N of Monte Vista on US 285, John Rawinski reported 12 Dickcissels.

---On July 7 on CO 112 at mm 10 just w of CR 44, Kathy Mihm Dunning reported 2 Dickcissel.

SUMMIT COUNTY:

---On July 12 at Dillon Reservoir – East Shoreline Bikepath, Phil Lyon reported White-faced Ibis.

---On July 12 at Soda Creek Inlet, Phil Lyon reported 2 White-faced Ibis.

---On July 12 at Dillon Reservoir Windy Point, M Wait reported White-faced Ibis.

WELD COUNTY:

---On July 7 at Centennial Valley SWA, Steve Mlodinow reported 4 Northern Bobwhite, 9 Dickcissel, 14 Orchard Orioles.

---On July 7 at Central Plains Experimental Range, Bruce Cyganowski and Jonelle Balias reported 1 Common Ravens.

---On July 7 at Woods Lake, Steve Mlodinow reported 4 Western Sandpipeprs, 1 juv Solitary Sandpiper, 3 Greater Yellowlegs and Lesser Yellowlegs.

---On July 7 at Glenmere Park in Greeley, Steve Mlodinow reported Bushtit and Red-breasted Nuthatch.

---On July 8 at CR 153 very N end, Gary Lefko reported 2 Sharp-tailed Grouse.

---On July 8 Gary Lefko reported Dickcissel at CR 153 and CR 92 NE (1), CR 153and CR 112 NE (6), and CR 159 and CR 92 (1).

---On July 11 at Loloff Reservoir, Sue Riffe reported 2 Willet, Baird’s Sandpiper, 4 Greater Yellowlegs, Lesser Yellowlegs.                                                                   

DFO Field Trips

See DFO website for more information

Park County Explorations

Monday, July 9

5:00 AM – 12:00 PM

David Suddjian (dsuddjian AT gmail.com; 831-713-8659)

This trip is FULL

KEN CARYL VALLEY AREA

THURSDAY, JULY 12

6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

DAVID SUDDJIAN (DSUDDJIAN AT GMAIL.COM; 831-7132-8659)

FIRST CREEK AT DENVER OPEN SPACE

SATURDAY, JULY 14

6:00 AM – 11:00 AM

PATRICK O’DRISCOLL (PATRODRISK AT GMAIL.COM; 303-885-6955 (CELL))

MORRISON NATURE CENTER AT STAR K RANCH

SATURDAY, JULY 14

7:39 AM – 11:00 AM

A.J. GEST (OFFSETAJ AT COMCAST.NET; 303-994-2420)

STAUNTON SP

SUNDAY, JULY 15

6:45 AM – 2:00 PM

CHRIS GILBERT (CHRISGEE9 AT GMAIL.COM; 804-213-1508)

THIS TRIP IS FULL.

LYONS AREA 

SUNDAY, JULY 15

8:30 AM – 12:30 PM

RAYMOND DAVID & MARY CAY BURGER (DAVISBLACKDOG AT GMAIL.COM; 303-823-5332)

Good Birding,

Joyce Takamine

Boulder