Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 2 July 2018

[Joyce Takamine]

Date:        July 2, 2018

Compiler:   Joyce Takamine

e-mail:      RBA AT cobirds.org  

This is the Rare Bird Alert for Monday, July 2 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.

Snow Goose (*Kiowa)

Tundra Swan (Eagle)

Bufflehead (*Boulder)

Common Goldeneye (Chaffee)

Hooded Merganser (Boulder, Larimer)

Dusky Grouse (Clear Creek)

Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Larimer, *Otero)

Greater Roadrunner (El Paso, *Otero)

LESSER NIGHTHAWK (Montrose)

Black Swift (Boulder, Pueblo)

Chimney Swift (Jefferson)

Calliope Hummingbird (Boulder)

Black Rail (Weld)

Virginia Rail (Pitkin)

Sora (*Otero)

COMMON GALLINULE (*Larimer)

American Coot (Phillips)

Sandhill Crane (Weld)

Black-necked Stilt (*Kiowa)

Mountain Plover (*Kiowa, Weld)

Upland Sandpiper (Prowers)

Long-billed Curlew (*Kiowa, *Larimer)

Marbled Godwit (Jefferson)

Willet (Jefferson, *Kiowa)

Franklin’s Gulls (*Kiowa)

Least Tern (*Kiowa)

Caspian Tern (Boulder)

Common Loon (Kiowa)

Great Egret (*Kiowa)

Little Blue Heron (Boulder)

Cattle Egret (Jefferson, Pueblo)

Green Heron (Arapahoe, *Denver, *Kiowa)

Mississippi Kite (Kiowa, Larimer, *Otero)

Northern Goshawk (Jefferson)

Swainson’s Hawk (*Otero)

Lewis’s Woodpecker (La Plata, Mesa)

Red-headed Woodpecker (Logan, *Otero)

Acorn Woodpecker (La Plata)

Red-bellied Woodpecker (Logan)

Williamson’s Sapsucker (Jefferson)

Ladder-backed Woodpecker (*Otero)

American Three-toed Woodpecker (Boulder, Clear Creek, Larimer)

Peregrine Falcon (Adams, Weld)

Willow Flycatcher (Garfield, Mesa)

Least Flycatcher (Boulder, Jefferson, Larimer)

Hammond’s Flycatcher (Weld)

Gray Flycatcher (Gunnison, Mesa)

Cordilleran Flycatcher (*Arapahoe)

Eastern Phoebe (Boulder, Chaffee, *Otero)

Cassin’s Kingbird (*Denver, La Plata, *Otero)

Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (*Weld)

Red-breasted Nuthatch (Arapahoe, *Yuma)

Yellow-throated Vireo (Weld)

Warbling Vireo (Eastern) (*Boulder)

Red-eyed Vireo (*Larimer, Weld)

Canada Jay (Gray Jay) (El Paso)

Chihuanhuan Raven (*Otero)

Canyon Wren (*Otero)

Pacific Wren (Larimer)

Marsh Wren (Gunnison)

Swainson’s Flycatcher (Garfield)

Eastern Bluebird (*Larimer, *Otero)

Curve-billed Thrasher (*El Paso)

Brown Thrasher (Boulder)

Sage Thrasher (Adams)

Red Crossbill (Clear Creek, Jefferson)

Lesser Goldfinch (*Adams, Boulder)

Chestnut-collared Longspur (Weld)

McCown’s Longspur (*Larimer, Weld)

Green-tailed Towhee (*Arapahoe)

Rufous-crowned Sparrow (*Otero)

Cassin’s Sparrow (Boulder)

Chipping Sparrow (*Arapahoe)

Brewer’s Sparrow (Gunnison, La Plata)

Field Sparrow (Larimer, Weld)

Lark Sparrow (El Paso)

Sagebrush Sparrow (Gunnison, La Plata)

Lark Bunting (Boulder)

Grasshopper Sparrow (*Jefferson, Weld)

Fox Sparrow (Clear Creek)

White-throated Sparrow (Weld)

Yellow-breasted Chat (*Kiowa)

Bobolink (*Mesa)

Orchard Oriole (*Otero, Weld)

Baltimore Oriole (*Yuma)

Ovenbird (Larimer)

Virginia’s Warbler (Park)

American Redstart (Kiowa)

Chestnut-sided Warbler (*Boulder, Douglas)

Black-throated Blue Warbler (Weld)

Grace’s Warbler (Mesa)

Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Weld)

Lazuli Bunting (*Adams)

Indigo Bunting (Boulder, Montrose, *Otero, Weld)

Dickcissel (Douglas, *Jefferson, *Kiowa, Mesa, Weld)

ADAMS COUNTY:

---On June 28 at Morrison Nature Center at Star K Ranch, G Stacks reported 5 Bushtits.

---On June 29 at Barr Lake—Bird Conservancy of Rockies Office Area and below dam, Santiago Tabares and Gabriel Wiltse reported Peregrine Falcon.

---On June 30 at Lowell Ponds (Clear Creek Valley Park), Diane Roberts reported Sage Thrasher.

---On July 1 at Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR, First Creek, John Beitsch reported m  Lesser Goldfinch.

---On July 1 at Barr Lake SP, Tricia Van Laar reported f Lazuli Bunting by feeders.

ARAPAHOE COUNTY:

---On June 25 on High Line Canal Trail – S University Blvd to E Orchard Rd, Cynthia Madsen reported 2 Cordilleran Flycatchers.  On June 26 on High Line Canal Trail – S University Blvd to E Orchard Rd, Jared Del Rosso reported 2 Cordilleran Flycatchers.  On June 27 on High Line Canal Trail – S University Blvd, to E Orchard Rd, Jared Del Rosso and Cynthia Madsen reported 2 Cordilleran Flycatchers; Madsen also reported Red-breasted Nuthatch.  On June 28 on High Line Canal Trail – S University Blvd to E Orchard Rd, Jared Del Rosso reported 2 Cordilleran Flycatchers.  On June 29 on High Line Canal Trail – S  University Blvd to E Orchard Rd, Cynthia Madsen reported 2 Cordilleran Flycatchers.  On July 1 on High Line Canal Trail – S University Blvd to E Orchard Rd, Jared Del Rosso reported 2 Cordilleran Flycatchers.

---On June 30 at Littleton Cemetery, David Suddjian reported 2 Chipping Sparrows.  On June 30 at Littleton Cemetery, David Suddjian reported 5 Chipping Sparrows.  On July 1 at Littleton Cemetery, David Suddjian reported 3 Chipping Sparrows.

---On June 26 at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Jared Del Rosso reported Red-breasted Nuthatch.

---On June 28 at Parker Jordan Centennial Open Space, Cynthia Madsen and David Hill reported Green Heron.

---On June 30 at Littleton Lee Gulch Trail – Prince to Windermere – east half, David Suddjian reported Cordilleran Flycatcher.

---On June 30 on Front Range Road (west side of loop), David Suddjian reported 3 Chipping Sparrows.

---On July 1 at Cherry Creek SP, Matt Means reported Green-tailed Towhee.

---On July 1 on Big Dry Creek Trail – S Colorado Blvd, to S University Blvd, Mary O’Connor reported 2 Cordilleran Flycatchers.

BOULDER COUNTY:

---On June 26 at Walden Ponds/Cottonwood Marsh, John Haycraft and Robert Thoren reported imm Little Blue Heron.  On June 27 at Walden Ponds/Cottonwood Marsh, Markyu Mutchler reported imm Little Blue Heron.  On June 29 at Walden Ponds/Cottonwood Marsh, Sarah Spotten and Alan de Queiroz reported imm Little Blue Heron.  On June 30 at Walden Ponds/Cottonwood Marsh, Diane Roberts, David Haskell, and Katie Lehman reported imm Little Blue Heron.

---On June 16 at South Mesa Trail Parking Lot, Dan Zmolek and Leslie S reported m Chestnut-sided Warbler, pair of Indigo  Bunting and 4 Lesser Goldfinch.  On June 26 at South Mesa Trail, Gregg Goodrich and Anna Troth reported Chestnut-sided Warbler.  On June 30 at South Mesa Trail, Chris Brown reported Chestnut-sided Warbler.  On July 1 at South Mesa Trail, Luke and Tracy Pheneger reported Chestnut-sided Warbler.

---On June 26 at Golden Pond Park, Sarah Spotten reported 2 Eastern Phoebe.  On June 27 at Golden Ponds, Luke Pheneger reported Eastern Phoebe.

---On June 27 at Izaak Walton Park, Luke Pheneger reported 3 Hooded Mergansers.

---On June 26 at Rocky Mountain NP Wild Basin, Candice Johnson reported Least Flycatcher.  On June 27 at Rocky Mountain NP Wild Basin, Dan Zmolek and Leslie S reported Calliope Hummingbird and 7 Black Swifts.

---On June 27 On Indian Peaks BBS at Rainbow Lakes, Elena Klaver and Topi Martinez reported American Three-toed Woodpecker.

---On June 28 at Rabbit Mountain, Johanna Beam and Ted Floyd reported Brown Thrasher.

----On June 29 at Lagerman Reservoir, John Rutenbeck reported Caspian Tern.

---On June 30, at St Vrain River Crossing at 63rd St, Steve Frye reported 2 Eastern Phoebe.

---On July 1 at Sawhill Ponds, Ted Floyd reported 5 Warbling Vireo (Eastern).

---On July 1 at Little Gaynor Lake, John Rutenbeck reported Bufflehead.

CHAFFEE COUNTY:

---On June 26 at Frantz Lakw SWA, Jack Harlan reported 2 Eastern Phoebe.

---On June 28 in San Isabel NF S Cottonwood Drainage, David Olmstead reported f Dusky Grouse.

---On June 30 at Sands Lake SWSA, Samuel Meeker reported f Common Goldeneye.

CLEAR CREEK COUNTY:

---On June 27 at Chicago Lakes Trail 2s, Chris Wood reported Red Crossbill (Lodgedpole Pine or Type 5).

---On June 27 at Chicago Lakes Trail – Idaho Springs Reservoir, Chris Wood reported American Three-toed Woodpecker and 2 Red Crossbills (Lodgepole Pine, or type 5).

----On June 27 at Chicago Lakes Trail 3s, Clear Creek starting at Wilderness Chris Wood reported Dusky Grouse, Fox Sparrow (Slate-color), Red Crossbill (Lodgepole Pine, or type 5).

---On June 28 at Beaver Meadows TR 44 2c, Chris Wood reported 3 Red Crossbill (Ponderosa Pine, type 2).

DENVER COUNTY:

---On July 1 at Bluff Lake Nature Cednter, George Ho reported Green Heron; Matt Means reported Cassin’s Kingbird.

DOUGLAS COUNTY:

---On June 26 at Roxborough SP, Wendi Fisher reported Chestnut-sided Warbler on Fountain Valley Trail.

---On June 30 at Winkler Ranch, Hugh Kingery reported Dickcissel.

EAGLE COUNTY:

---On June 28 at Spring Park Reservoir, Babs Buck reported Tundra Swan.

EL PASO COUNTY:

---On June 27 at Hanover Road, Tanja Britton and Jim Merritt reported 4 Curve-billed Thrashers.  On June 29 on 16831 – 16959 Hanover Road, David and Tammy McQuade reported 3 Greater Roadrunners and Curve-billed Thrasher.

---On June 29 on Pikes Peak, Alan and Mary Lynne Ketcham reported Canada (Gray) Jay.

---On June 1 at Hanover Fire Station, Cathy Bondy reported Curve-billed Thrasher.

---On June 2 at Chico Basin Ranch wooded areas, Cathy Bondy reported Curve-billed Thrasher.

GARFIELD COUNTY:

---On June 28 on South Fork of White River near Budges, Vic Zerbi reported 15 Swainson’s Thrush and 20 Willow Flycatchers.

GUNNISON COUNTY:

---On June 30 on Hwy 30 S of Gunnison, Gaylee and Richard Dean reported Gray Flycatcher, 2 Brewer’s Sparrows and 2 Sagebrush Sparrows.

---On June 30 at McCabes Lane Wetland, Dave Hawksworth reported 3 Marsh Wrens.

JEFFERSON COUNTY:

---On June 26 at Coal Creek OS, Brian Johnson, Gregg Goodrich, Anna Troth, Alison Field, and Stephen Greenwood reported Dickcissel and Grasshopper Sparrows.  On June 27 at Coal Creek OS, Meg Reck and Marky Mutcher reported Dickcissel; Mutcher also reported 3 Grasshopper Sparrows.  On June 30 at Coal Creek OS, Timo Mitzen reported 3 Grasshopper Sparrows and 2 Dickcissel.  On July 2 at Coal Creek OS, Chris Sherry, Santiago Tabares, Jeremiah Trimble reported Dickcissels and Grasshopper Sparrows.

---On June 26 on Coal Creek Canyon Dr, Mark Chavez reported Cattle Egret.

---On June 28 at Staunton SP, Rebecca Laroche and Burke Angstman reported Northern Goshawk, 2 Williamson’s Sapsuckers and Red Crossbill.  On June 30 at Staunton SP, Rebecca Laroche and her DFO Field Trip reported Northern Goshawk, 11 Williamson’s Sapsuckers (4 nests), and 2 Red Crossbills; Christine Alexander also reported Least Flycatcher.

---On June 27 at Standley Lake, David Chernak reported 19 Willets.  On June 28 at Standley Lake, David Chernak reported 6 Marbled Godwits.

KIOWA COUNTY:

---On June 26 at Neegronda Reservoir, Jeff Calhoun reported 2 Black-necked Stilt.

---On June 28 at Upper Queens/Neeskah Reservoir, Doug Faulkner reported Common Loon in alternate plumage.

---On July 1 at Neenoshe Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Snow Goose, Great Egret, Green Heron, 9 Black-necked Stilts, 2 House Wren, and Yellow-breasted Chat.

---On July 1 at Adobe Creek Reservoir (Blue Lake), Steve Mlodinow reported Mountain Plover, Long-billed Curlew, Willet, 21 Franklin’s Gulls, 3 Least Terns, Yellow-breasted Chat, 3 Dickcissel.

LA PLATA COUNTY:

---On June 28 on Rancho Durango Road, Jim Beatty reported 4 Cassin’s Kingbirds, 2 Brewer’s Sparrows and Sagebrush Sparrow.

---On June 29 at Meadow Road, Rafter J Subdivision, David Dunford reported Lewis’s Woodpecker and 2 Acorn Woodpeckers.

LARIMER COUNTY:

---On June 22 at Comanche Peak Wilderness,  Creek Falls Trails, Bill and Margaret Rowe, reported Pacific Wren.  On June 27 on West Creek Trail in Comanche Peak Wilderness, Bez Bezuidenhout reported Pacific Wren where Nick Komar described and further downstream Bez found 3 more Pacific Wrens – 2 adults and 1 fledging.

---On June 27 at Soapstone Prairie NA, Andy Bankert reported McCown’s Longspur.  On June 28 at Soapstone Prairie NA, Andy Bankert reported 2 McCown’s Longspur.  On June 30 at Soapstone Prairie NA, John Shenot reported 7 McCown’s Longspsurs.

---On June 27 at Rocky Mountain NP Dream and Emerald Lakes, Matt Means reported Mississippi Kite.

---On June 28 at Fossil Creek Reservoir and Regional Park, Nick Komar reported 2 f Hooded Mergansers.

---On June 28 at Lorey SP Well Gulch Trail, David Leatherman reported Least Flycatcher.

---On June 29 at Rist Canyon (Miles 6 – 9), Georgia Doyle reported Ovenbird.

---One June 30 On N CR 15 where it crosses Boxelder Creek, John Shenot reported Yellow-billed Cuckoo;

David Wade and Georgia Doyle were able to refind the bird.  N CR 15 crosses Boxelder Creek between CR 78 and CR 82.

---On June 30 in Rocky Mountain National Park, ½ mile along trail from Bear Lake to Bierstadt, Bill and Margaret Rowe reported pair of American Three-toed Woodpeckers.

---On July 1 on Bobcat Ridge NA, Caroline Olson and Andy Bankert reported 2 Eastern Bluebirds and Red-eyed Vireo.

---On July 1 at Running Deer and Cottonwood Hollow NA, Robert  Beauchamp reported COMMON GALLINULE.

---On July 1 at I-25 Frontage Road, Carr, David and Tammy McQuade and Walter Wehtje reported Long-billed Curlew; Nick Komar and Georgia Doyle reported 3 McCown’s Longspurs.

MESA COUNTY:

---On June 26 on ME ¾ Rd, David Price reported Bobolink and Dickcissel.  On June 27 on ME ¾ and 57 Rd, Rodene Harwood, Ronda Woodward and Mike Henwood reported Bobolink and 3 Dickcissels.  On June 28 on OE Rd/57 Rd/ME ¾ Rd, Nic Korte and Vic Zerbi reported Bobolink and Dickcissel.

---On June 27 at Vega Reservoir and Vega SP, Mike Henwood reported 2 Lewis’s Woodpeckers and Willow Flycatcher (southwest)

---On June 28 on Divide Road Thimble Pt FR #417, Mike Henwood reported 2 Grace’s Warblers.  On June 30 on Divide Road thimble Pt, FR #417, Drew Kelly reported Gray Flycatcher and 4 Grace’s Warblers.

---On June 28 at Jack’s Canyon Area, Mike Henwood reported 2 Grace’s Warblers.

---On June 29 at Molina/Upper Plateau Creek, Connee Moffatt reported Dickcissel.

---On July 1 on 13001 – 14061 57 Rd near Collbran, Rick Harner reported 4 Bobolink.

MONTROSE COUNTY:

---On June 26 at Nucla Sewage Lagoons, Brenda Wright and Coen Dexter reported LESSER NIGHTHAWK.

---On June 27 on Old Hwy 90 through Silver Hawk Ranch, Brenda Wright and Coen Dextger reported Indigo Bunting.

OTERO COUNTY:

---On July 1 at Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site, Steve Mlodinow reported Sora.

---On July 1 at Higbee Valley Rd (CR 804), Steve Mlodinow reported 3 Mississippi Kites, 131 Swaninson’s Hawk – one year olds in a single large field, Greater Roadrunner, 4 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 7 Red-headed Woodpecker, 5 Ladder-backed Woodpeckers, 5 Eastern Phoebe, Cassin’s Kingbird, 5 Chihuahuan Raven, 8 Eastern Bluebirds, 7 Curve-billed Thrasher, Rufous-crowned Sparrow, m Painted Bunting, 11 Orchard Oriole, 2 Canyon Wren.

PARK COUNTY:

---On June 28 at Spruce Grove CG, Lane Quinn reported Virginia’s Warbler.

PITKIN COUNTY:

---On June 27 at Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, Susan Foster and Catherine Hagen reported Virginia Rail.

PROWERS COUNTY:

---On June 26 on Fencerow Windmill Strip west of US 385 between CR CC and CR X, Jane Stulp reported 2 Upland Sandpipers.

PUEBLO COUNTY.

---On June 28 on Swallow’s Road Cemetery, Alan and Mary Lynn Ketcham reported 2 Cattle Egret.

WELD COUNTY:

---On June 26 at Lower Latham Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Black Rail, 3 Sandhill Cranes, and Dickcissel.

---On June 26 at S Platte River at Hwy 60, Steve Mlodinow reported Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, and 3 Orchard Orioles.

---On June 26 on Hwy 14 between CR 77 & CR 79, Johanna Beam reported 23 Mountain Plover, Peregrine Falcon, 2 Chestnut-collared Longspur, 2 McCown’s Longspur, and 7 Grasshopper Sparrows.

---On July 1 NE of Briggsdale, heading east on CR 100 about ½ mile past CR 83, Kevin Clark reported Scissor-tailed Flycatcher.

YUMA COUNTY:

---On July 1 at Wray City Park, Carol and Carol Trovall reported Red-breasted Nuthatch and Baltimore Oriole.

DFO Field Trips

See DFO website for more information

Ken Caryl Valley Area

Thursday, July 5

6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

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

This trip is FULL

Prospect Park (Wheat Ridge Greenbelt)

Saturday, July 7

8:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Jackie King (kingjackie3372 AT gmail.com; 720-381-3314)

Cherry Creek SP Wetlands Loop

Sunday, July 8

8:00AM – 12:00 PM

Karen von Saltza & Bill Wuerthele (kvonsaltza AT YAHOO.COM; 303-941-4881)

Good Birding

Joyce Takamine

Boulder