Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date: February 10, 2017
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Friday, February 10 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 using the new AOU checklist, & the order of families has changed.
BRANT (*Jefferson)
Trumpeter Swan (Douglas, Mesa)
Tundra Swan (Chaffee, Montrose)
Mallard (Mexican intergrade) (Boulder)
White-winged Scoter (Arapahoe)
Barrow's Goldeneye (Adams, Chaffee, Mesa, Pueblo)
Red-necked Grebe (Pueblo)
White-winged Dove (*Mesa)
Dunlin (Arapahoe, *Douglas, Pueblo)
American Woodcock (Larimer)
Thayer's Gull (Arapahoe, Boulder)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Douglas, Jefferson)
Great Black-backed Gull (Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder)
Red-throated Loon (Kiowa)
American White Pelican (Bent, Larimer)
Turkey Vulture (Jefferson)
Lewis's Woodpecker (Las Animas)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Yuma)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Denver)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (Pueblo)
Black Phoebe (Mesa)
Pacific Wren (La Plata)
Sage Thrasher (Douglas)
Northern Mockingbird (Yuma)
American Pipit (Jefferson)
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (Conejos, Pitkin)
Black Rosy-Finch (Conejos, Pitkin)
Brown-capped Rosy-Finch (Conejos, La Plata, Pitkin)
Lapland Longspur (Bent, Kiowa, Logan)
Lincoln's Sparrow (Prowers)
Northern Cardinal (Prowers)
EASTERN MEADOWLARK (Bent)
Great-tailed Grackle (*Adams, Chaffee, Kiowa)
*****For directions to unfamiliar locations (e.g. "Lower Latham"), please refer to CFO's Colorado County Birding site: www.coloradocountybirding.org
ADAMS COUNTY:
---On February 7, Norm Lewis reported 3 Barrow's Goldeneyes on South Platte River near 78th Ave.
---On February 7 at Barr Lake State Park, Lorraine Lanning reported ad Great Black-backed Gull.
---On February 7, Dan Stringer reported 7 Great-tailed Grackles on E 136th, E of I-76 near Barr Lake.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On February 5 at Aurora Reservoir, Mike McCloy and Libby Megna reported White-winged Scoter, Thayer's Gull, 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, and 1-st cyc Great Black-backed Gull. On February 6, Diane Roberts and Tim Ryan reported White-winged Scoter and Lesser Black-backed Gull at Aurora Reservoir.
---On February 4 at McLellen Reservoir, Ben Sampson and many other birders reported Dunlin. McLellen is in both Arapahoe and Douglas County, but mostly in Arapahoe. Only the SE portion of McLellen is in Douglas.
BENT COUNTY:
---On February 5 at John Martin Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported 9 American White Pelicans, 20 Lapland Longspurs, and EASTERN (Lilian's) MEADOWLARK.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On February 4 at Hecla Lake in Louisville, Steve Frye reported f Mallard (Mexican intergrade).
---On February 5 at Boulder Reservoir, Ted Floyd reported 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls. On February 6 at Boulder Reservoir, Ted Floyd and David Waltman reported 1-st cyc Great Black-backed Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 1-st cyc Thayer's Gull.
CHAFFEE COUNTY:
---On February 5 at Sands Lake SWA, Christian Hagenlocher reported 7 Barrow's Goldeneyes and 6 Great-tailed Grackles. On February 6 at Sands Lake SWA, Nancy davis reported 2 Barrow's Goldeneyes and 10 Great-tailed Grackles.
---On February 5 at CR 163 pond, Christian Hagenlocher reported 2 Tundra Swans.
CONEJOS COUNTY:
---On February 3, John Rawinski reported all three species of Rosy-Finches at Hostettlers on south Gunbarrel (CR 15). Go one mile past end of pavement on east side of road.
DENVER COUNTY:
---On January 26 at Washington Park, Aaron Tucker reported 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers. On January 27 at Washington Park, Aaron Tucker, Jason Bidgood, Joe Roller, Doug Kibble, Mark Obmascik, Rebecca Laroche, sand Lock Kilpatrick reported Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. On January 28, Tom Behnfield reported that many birders saw the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at Washington Park. On February 4, Chuck Hundertmark reported imm Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at Washington Park.
DOUGLAS COUNTY:
---On December 27, Jeff Beavers reported Trumpeter Swan at Chatfield. The Swan can be seen by going upstream from Kingfisher Bridge to Pond 5 or from High Line Canal Trail accessed from Titan Road. On February 4, Gloria Nikolai and Christian Nune reported Trumpeter Swan from High Line Canal Trail and Titan Road and Hugh Kingery reported Trumpeter Swan from upstream from Kingfisher Bridge. On February 6, Josh and rachel Destree reported Trumpeter Swan from upstream from Kingfisher Bridge.
---On January 24 at McLellen Reservoir, SE Corner and High Line Canal Trail, Gregg Goodrich reported Dunlin. On February 4, Ben Sampson and Karen Drozda reported Dunlin at McLellen Reservoir. McLellen is mostly in Arapahoe County. On February 5, Ginny Bergstrom reported Dunlin at McLellen Reservoir. On February 6, Gwen Moore and Edward Done reported Dunlin at McLellen Reservoir. On February 7 at McLellen Reservoir, Diane Roberts and Pam Zimmer reported Dunlin. On February 9, Mark Minner-Lee and Gregg Goodrich reported Dunlin at McLellen Reservoir.
---On February 5 at Plum Creek Delta in Chatfield SP, Matt Crooks reported Sage Thrasher.
JEFFERSON COUNTY:
---On January 26 at Indian Tree Golf Course on Wadsworth north of 72nd Ave, Arvada, Doug Faulkner reported a BRANT. On February 4, Holden Maxfield reported BRANT at Indian Tree Golf Course.
---On February 1 at Emil Schneider Park in Arvada, Timo Mitzen and Lindsay Purifoy reported BRANT.
---On February 4 at Catfish Flats at Chatfield SP, Doug Kibbe and MacKenzie Goldthwait reported Lesser Black-backed Gull.
---On February 6 at outflow channel at base of dam at Chatfield SP, David Suddjian reported American Pipit.
---On February 9, Jessi Oberbeck reported BRANT at Pond at 75th and Wadsworth in Arvada.
KIOWA COUNTY:
---On February 5 at Upper Queens/Neeskah Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported 2 Lapland Longspurs.
---On February 5 in town of Eads, Steve Mlodinow reported 5 Great-tailed Grackles.
---On February 5 at Adobe Creek Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Red-throated Loon and 3 Lapland Longspurs.
LA PLATA COUNTY:
---On February 2, Ryan Votta reported Pacific Wren at Animas River Trail/Huck Finn Pond and Hatchery Area. On February 3 at Durango Fish Hatchery, Vic Zerbi reported Pacific Wren. On February 5, Nancy Davis reported Pacific Wren in Huck Finn Pond area. On February 8, Elyse Klingener and Robert Winslow reported Pacific Wren at Animas River Trail/Huck Finn Pond and Hatchery Area.
---On February 3 on Rd 124, Vic Zerbi reported Brown-capped Rosy-Finches at feeders.
LARIMER COUNTY:
---On January 8, David Wade and Cole Wild reported 2 American Woodcocks at Bobcat Ridge Natural Area in the creek between the parking lot and the road. On January 31, Aaron Shipe and Mark Amershek reported American Woodcock at Bobcat Ridge NA. On February 4, Mark Minner-Lee and Barbara Webb reported American Woodcock at Bobcat Ridge NA. On February 5, Lori Zabel reported American Woodcock at Bobcat Ridge NA. On February 6, Dave Leatherman reported American Woodcock at Bobcat RIdge Natural Area.
---On February 5 at Rawhide Energy Station/Hamilton Reservoir, Robert Beauchamp reported American White Pelican.
LAS ANIMAS COUNTY:
---On February 5 at CR 46.0 W of CR 42, Kathy Mihm Dunning reported 8 Lewis's Woodpecker in bottomland with many large Cottonwoods.
MESA COUNTY:
---On February 4 at James M Robb Colorado River SP, 34 Road, Carol Ortenzio reported 2 Trumpeter Swans. On Fe bruary 5 at James M Robb Colorado River SP, 34 Road, Denise and Mark Vollmar reported 2 Trumpeter Swans and 2 Barrow's Goldeneyes.
---On February 4 at 32 1/4 Rd Ponds east of sewage treatment plant in Clifton, Brett Walker reported Black Phoebe.
---On February 9, JoAnn Potter Riggle reported 3 White-winged Doves in the alley east of the 13th and Grand block in Grand Junction.
MONTROSE COUNTY:
---On February 2, Coen Dexter reported 2 swans (ad, juv) at Nucla City Reservoir.
---On February 4 at Nucla City reservoir, Eric Hynes reported 2 Tundra Swans. On February 6, Coen Dexter reported 2 Tundra Swans at Nucla Domestic Reservoir. On February 7, Vic Zerbi reported 2 Tundra Swans at Nucla Domestic Reservoir.
PROWERS COUNTY:
---On February 3 at Lamar Community College Woods, Jane Stulp reported Lincoln's Sparrow. On February 6 at Lamar Community College at feeder across from library, Janeal Thompson reported 3 Northern Cardinals (2m, 1f)
and Lincoln's Sparrow.
PUEBLO COUNTY:
---On February 5 at Pueblo Reservoir, Tim Leppek reported Ladder-backed Woodpecker.
---On February 5 at Lake Pueblo SP, Brandon Percival reported Dunlin.
---On February 6 on Arkansas River in Pueblo, Brandon Perciavl reported 4 Barrow's Goldeneyes (2m, 2f)
WELD COUNTY:
---On February 6 in LaSalle on CR 27, Loch Kilpatrick reported Greater Yellowlegs.
YUMA COUNTY:
---On February 8 at Hale Ponds, Adam Vesely reported 2 Red-bellied Woodpeckers and Northern Mockingbird.
Denver Field Ornithologists Field Trips:
The DFO Field Trip for Saturday, February 11 will be to Delaney Community Farm led by A.J. Gest (offsetaj AT comcast.net; 303-994-2420). This trip is full.
The DFO Field Trip for Sunday, February 12 will be Cherry Creek SP Wetlands Loop led by Karen von Saltza (kvonsaltza AT yahoo.com; 303=941-4881). Meet at 0900 at Prairie Loop lot in Cherry Creek Sp. From either park entrance, follow Lake View Rd to the Prairie Loop that is located at the south rim of the reservoir. Sate Parks pass or day pass required.
This is a half day of walking that passes through most of the important habitats found in the park over a distance of about 3 miles. trails could be slippery or muddy, so dress accordingly. Bring water and snacks; lunch is optional. Beginning birders are welcome. Register online or contact leader.
Good birding,
Joyce Takamine
Boulder
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAHtstTdf0wfxjhV8ciPrPHyEZDVkMKp_0AhgHUKYoof93%3DTVUw%40mail.gmail.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
No comments:
Post a Comment