Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date: February 5, 2017
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, February 5 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 (Arapahoe, *Jefferson)
Swan Species (Montrose)
Trumpeter Swan (*Douglas, *Mesa)
Tundra Swan (Boulder, Weld)
Mallard (Mexican intergrade) (*Boulder)
White-winged Scoter (Arapahoe, Moffat)
Long-tailed Duck (Larimer)
Barrow's Goldeneye (Garfield,)
Red-necked Grebe (Pueblo)
Dunlin (*Arapahoe, *Douglas)
Least Sandpiper (Otero)
American Woodcock (*Larimer)
Mew Gull (Arapahoe)
Thayer's Gull (Arapahoe, Pueblo)
ICELAND GULL (Arapahoe)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, *Jefferson, Pueblo)
GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL (Araphaoe)
Glaucous Gull (Arapahoe)
Great Black-backed Gull (Arapahoe, Pueblo)
Double-crested Cormorant (Arapahoe)
Turkey Vulture (Boulder, Jefferson)
Lewis's Woodpecker (El Paso)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Boulder, *Denver)
FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER (Las Animas)
Red-naped Sapsucker (Boulder)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (Pueblo)
Black Phoebe (*Mesa)
Juniper Titmouse (Pueblo)
Stub-tailed Wren (Boulder)
Pacific Wren (La Plata)
Winter Wren (El Paso)
Gray Catbird (Jefferson)
Curve-billed Thrasher (Pueblo)
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (Boulder, *Conejos, Park, Pitkin)
Black Rosy-Finch (Boulder, *Conejos, Pitkin)
Brown-capped Rosy-Finch (Boulder, *Conejos, La Plata, Pitkin)
Lapland Longspur (Logan)
Lincoln's Sparrow (*Prowers)
*****For directions to unfamiliar locations (e.g. "Lower Latham"), please refer to CFO's Colorado County Birding site: www.coloradocountybirding.org
ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On January 27 at Aurora Reservoir, Loch Kilpatrick and John Drummond reported White-winged Scoter, 2 Thayer's Gulls, ad ICELAND GULL, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, GLAUCOUS-WINGED GULL, Glaucous Gull, and 2 Great Black-backed Gulls (1 ad, 1 1-st cyc). On January 28 at Aurora Reservoir, Riley Morris, Dean Shoup, Sunny Bradford, Bill Kaep mfer, Glenn Walbek, and Cheryl Teuton reported BRANT, White-winged Scoter, On January 31 at Aurora Reservoir, Diane Roberts reported White-winged Scoter, 2 1-st cyc Mew Gulls, 2 Thayer's Gulls, and 3 Lesser Black-backed Gulls. On February 1 at Aurora Reservoir, Bob Righter reported White-winged Scoter.
3 Thayer's Gulls, 7 Lesser Blacked Gulls, Glaucous-winged Gull, 2 Glaucous Gulls, and 2 Great Black-Backed Gulls (1 ad, 1 1-st cyc).
---On January 29 at Cooley Lake in South Platte Park, David Suddjian reported 1-st cyc Lesser Black-backed Gull.
---On January 31 at South Platte Park, Amy Darling reported Double-crested Cormorant.
---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.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On January 31, Bill Kaempfer reported 4 Tundra Swans at Cottonwood Marsh.
---On January 23 at Bohn Park in Lyons, David Dowell reported Yellow-bellied Sapsucker. On January 29 at Bohn Park in Lyons, Nick Moore reported Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and Red-naped Sapsucker. On January 31, Steve Mlodinow reported Yellow-bellied Sapsucker and Red-naped Sapsucker at Bohn Park in Lyons.
---On January 27 at Fawn Brook Inn in Allenspark, Kara Carragher reported all three species of Rosy-Finches.
---On January 28 at Dry Creek Open Space in Boulder, Laura Steadman reported a Stub-tailed Wren.
---On January 30 at Boulder Valley Ranch, Thomas Heinrich reported Turkey Vulture.
---On February 4 at Hecla Lake in Louisville, Steve Frye reported f Mallard (Mexican intergrade).
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.
DELTA COUNTY:
---On January 29 at Confluence Park, Eric Hynes reported m Barrow's Goldeneye.
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 January 22, Chuck Hundertmark reported Trumpeter Swan from Upstream from Kingfisher Bridge and Karen Drozda and Bea Weaver reported Trumpeter Swan from High Line Canal Trail and Titan Road. On January 27, Liza Antony reported Trumpeter Swan from High Line Canal Trail and Titan Road. On January 28, Ray Brakke and Bill Kaempfer reported Trumpeter Swan from High Line Canal Trail and Joey Kellner and Nelson Fort reported Trumpeter Swan from upstream of Kingfisher Bridge. On January 30, Alison Mari reported Trumpeter Swan from upstream of Kingfisher Bridge. On January 31, Tim Ryan reported Trumpeter Swan from upstream of Kingfisher Bridge. 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 January 24 at McLellen Reservoir, SE Corner and High Line Canal Trail, Gregg Goodrich reported Dunlin. On January 27, Rebecca Laroche, Tom Behnfield, and Steve Rash reported Dunlin at High Line Canal Trail and McLellen Reservoir periphery. On January 28 at McLellen Reservoir, Bill Kaempfer, Dean Shoup, Tom and Debbie Behfield, Art Hudak, and Cynthia Madsen reported Dunlin. On January 29 at McLellen Reservoir, Tim Ryan, Lynn Sauer, Anna Troth, and Gregg Goodrich reported Dunlin. On January 31 at McLellen Reservoir, David Suddjian, Aaron Shipe, Aaron Tucker, Mackenzie Goldthwait, and Frank Farrell reported Dunlin. On February 1 at McLellen Reservoir, Loch Kilpatrick and Mary O'Connor reported Dunlin and Loch reported Lesser Black-backed Gull. On February 3 at McLelland Reservoir, Joey Kellner reported Dunlin. On February 4, Ben Sampson and Karen Drozda reported Dunlin
at McLellen Reservoir. McLellen is mostly in Arapahoe County.
EL PASO COUNTY:
---On January 31 at Cheyenne Mountain SP, Alan Versaw reported Lewis's Woodpecker.
---On February 1 at Sinton Pond, David Tonnessen reported Winter Wren.
GARFIELD COUNTY:
---On January 28 along Devereus Road and two Rivers Park in Glenwood Springs, JoAnn Riggle reported 17 Barrow's Goldeneyes.
JEFFERSON COUNTY:
---On January 26 at Indian Tree Golf Course on Wadsworth north of 72nd Ave, Arvada, Doug Faulkner reported a BRANT. On January 27 at Indian Tree Golf Course, Philip Pratt, Deb Stuart,Eric DeFonso, Janis Robinson and Matt Clark reported BRANT. On January 28, Luke Pheneger reported that many birders saw the BRANT at Indian Tree Golf Course. On January 28, Amy Cervene and many other birders saw the BRANT at Indian Tree Golf Course. On January 30 Betty Glass and Cheri Phillips reported BRANT at Indian Tree Golf Course. On February 4, Holden Maxfield reported BRANT at Indian Tree Golf Course.
---On January 29 at Wheat Ridge Greenbelt Prospect Park, Paul Slingsby reported Gray Catbird.
---On January 31, Doug Faulkner reported BRANT at Lake Arbor in Arvada.
---On January 31 at Red Rocks, Michael Aurelia reported Turkey Vulture on east of park.
---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.
LA PLATA COUNTY:
---On February 2, Ryan Votta reported Pacific Wren at Animas River Trail/Huck Finn Pond and Hatcher Area. On February 3 at Durango Fish Hatchery, Vic Zerbi reported Pacific Wren.
---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 27, Kara Carragher reported American Woodcock at Bobcat Ridge NA. On January 28 at Bobcat Ridge Natural Area, David Dowell, Andrew McFadden, Gene Rutherford, and Drew Bennett reported American Woodcock. On January 29 at Bobcat RIdge Natural Area, Robert Beauchamp, Richard and Christine Sparks, Bill Kaempfe, Matt Clark, and Susan Bonfiglio reported American Woodcock. 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 January 27 on Hwy 27 from Allenspark, Kara Carragher reported all 3 species of Rosy-Finches.
LAS ANIMAS COUNTY:
---On February 1 in Trinidad, Nancy Leonard reported a possible FORK-TAILED FLYCATCHER. This would be a new
state record if it can be documented and accepted.
LINCOLN COUNTY:
---On January 23 SE of Hugo on CR 2P, Tyler Stuart reported 2 Chihuahuan Ravens.
MESA COUNTY:
---On February 4 at James M Robb Colorado River SP, 34 Road, Carol Ortenzio reported 2 Trumpeter Swans.
---On February 4 at 32 1/4 Rd Ponds east of sewage treatment plant in Clifton, Brett Walker reported Black Phoebe.
MOFFAT COUNTY:
---On January 29 at on Green River in Brown's Park NWR, Tom Litteral reported 3 Trumpeter Swans.
MONTROSE COUNTY:
---On February 2, Coen Dexter reported 2 swans (ad, juv) at Nucla City Reservoir.
OTERO COUNTY:
---On January 30 at Rocky Ford SWA, Stan Oswald reported 2 Least Sandpipers.
PARK COUNTY:
---On January 28 in Jefferson, Kevin DeBoer reported 13 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches.
PROWERS COUNTY:
---On February 3 at Lamar Community College Woods, Jane Stulp reported Lincoln's Sparrow.
PUEBLO COUNTY:
---On January 28, Brandon Percival reported Thayer's Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, and 3 Curve-billed Thrashers at Pueblo Reservoir. On January 31 at Pueblo Reservoir South Marina, Gwen Moore reported Great Black-backed Gull and 2 Curve-billed Thrashers.
---On January 30 at Chico Basin Ranch (fee area), John Drummond reported Ladder-backed Woodpecker and 2 Curve-billed Thrashers.
---On January 31, Gwen Moore found 4 Juniper Titmice at Pueblo Reservoir. On February 1, Brandon Percival reported 2 Juniper Titmice on North Picnic Road/Juniper Breaks Campground.
WELD COUNTY:
---On January 22 on CR 5 S of Hwy 119 near Longmont, Kat Bradley-Bennett reported 4 Tundra Swans (2 ad, 2 imm). On January 28 on CR 5 S of Hwy 118, Gene Rutherford reported 4 Tundra Swans (2 ad, 2 imm). On January 29, Matt Clark and Susan Bonfiglio reported 4 Tundra Swans on CR 5.
Denver Field Ornithologists Field Trips:
Sign up on line for field trips at DFO's Website.
The DFO Field Trip for Saturday, February 4 will be to Allenspark and Lyons led by Nina Routh and Mike Serruto (nrouth AT copper.net; 303-987-8687). This trip is full.
The DFO Field Trip for Saturday, February 4 will be South Platte River Trail at E 88th Ave and I-76 led by Mark Amershek (mamershek At msn.com; 303-329-8646). Meet at 0800 at the parking area at 88th ave and South Platte River Trail. From I-76 take E 88th Ave exit, go west on 88th for 1.6 miles, ten turn south at Colorado Blvd. Turn left again into the parking lot for the South Platte River Greenway Trailhead.Hike along paved trail and occasionally in adjacent mud for up to three miles. Register online or contact leader.
The DFO Field Trip for Sunday, February 5 will be to Riverside Cemetery/Platte River led by Kevin Corwin (kevygrudguy AT aol.com; 720-482-8544). This trip is full.
Good birding,
Joyce Takamine
Boulder
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