Date: September 8, 2018
Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, September 8 sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.
Note that the RBA is using the new AOU checklist.
Rare and out of range species for the last seven days include: (*indicates new information on this species)
Greater White-fronted Goose (Larimer)
Mexican Duck (Archuleta)
Bufflehead (Boulder)
Northern Bobwhite (Larimer)
Virginia Rail (*Pueblo)
Sora (*Pueblo)
Black-necked Stilt (Mesa)
American Avocet (*Washington)
Black-belllied Plover (Morgan, Washington)
Semipalmated Plover (Larimer, *Washington)
Piping Plover (*Washington)
Long-billed Curlew (Morgan)
Marbled Godwit (Larimer, *Washington)
Stilt Sandpiper (Larimer, *Washington)
Sanderling (*Larimer)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Larimer)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Larimer, *Washington,)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Larimer, Mesa, *Pueblo, *Washington)
Western Sandpiper (Mesa, Washington)
Solitary Sandpiper (*Adams, Boulder, La Plata, Larimer, Mesa, *Pueblo, Washington, Yuma)
Willet (Larimer)
Wilson's Phalrope (San Miguel)
Red-necked Phalarope (*Washington)
Sabine's Gull (*Washington)
Herring Gull (Larimer)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Weld)
Caspian Tern (Larimer, Morgan)
Black Tern (Kiowa, *Washington)
Common Tern (*Washington)
Little Blue Heron (Weld)
Green Heron (Weld)
YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON (*Yuma)
White-faced Ibis (Routt, Summit)
Mississippi Kite (Adams, El Paso, Phillips)
Rough-legged Hawk (*Adams)
Lewis's Woodpecker (La Plata)
Red-headed Woodpecker (*El Paso)
Red-naped Sapsucker (Weld)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (*El Paso, *Pueblo)
Hairy Woodpecker (El Paso)
Merlin (Boulder, Chaffee, Mesa)
Olive-sided Flycatcher (El Paso, *Pueblo)
Willow Flycatcher (Adams, Mesa, Yuma)
Least Flycatcher (*Pueblo)
Hammond's Flycatcher (Denver, El Paso)
Gray Flycatcher (Boulder, Denver, *El Paso, Larimer, Weld)
Dusky Flycatcher (Adams, *El Paso, Ouray, Yuma)
Cordilleran Flycatcher (El Paso, Mesa, *Ouray)
Black Phoebe (Mesa)
Eastern Phoebe (El Paso)
Great Crested Flycatcher (*Pueblo)
Cassin's Kingbird (Boulder, El Paso, Larimer)
Blue-headed Vireo (*Pueblo)
Eastern Kingbird (Archuleta, Eagle, Larimer)
Loggerhead Shrike (Eagle)
Bell's Vireo (Phillips)
Gray Vireo (La Plata)
Cassin's Vireo (Archuleta, El Paso, Jefferson, La Plata, *Ouray, *Pueblo)
Canada Jay (*Mesa)
Pinyon Jay (El Paso,)
Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay (El Paso, La Plata, Larimer)
Violet-green Swallow (Weld)
Bushtit (Larimer)
Brown Creeper (Yuma)
Marsh Wren (Arapahoe, Larimer)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (El Paso, La Plata, Larimer, Mesa, Phillips, *Pueblo, Weld)
Curve-billed Thrasher (*El Paso, *Pueblo)
Brown Thrasher (El Paso, Phillips)
Sage Thrasher (*El Paso, Jackson, Jefferson, *Pueblo
American Pipit (*Mesa)
Cassin's Sparrow (Denver)
Chipping Sparrow (*El Paso)
Clay-colored Sparrow (*Adams, Archuleta, Boulder, Denver, Eagle, *El Paso, *Larimer, *Pueblo, Yuma)
Brewer's Sparrow (*Adams, *El Paso, Larimer, *Mesa, *Pueblo)
Lark Bunting (*Adams)
Savannah Sparrow (Larimer, *Pueblo)
Fox Sparrow (Slate-color) (*Ouray)
Orchard Oriole (Adams)
Baltimore Oriole (Prowers)
Ovenbird (Adams, El Paso, *Larimer, *Pueblo)
Northern Waterthrush (*El Paso, La Plata, Phillips)
Black-and-white Warbler (Weld)
Orange-crowned Warbler (Larimer)
Nashville Warbler (Adams, Jefferson, La Plata, *Larimer, Ouray)
Virginia's Warbler (El Paso)
Hooded Warbler (*Jefferson)
Northern Parula (La Plata)
Chestnut-sided Warbler (Boulder)
Blackpoll Warbler (*Jefferson, *Larimer, Phillips)
Black-throated Gray Warbler (El Paso)
Townsend's Warbler (El Paso, Larimer)
Northern Cardinal (Yuma)
Indigo Bunting (Yuma)
ADAMS COUNTY:
---On September 4 at Barr Lake SP Banding Station, Meredith McBurney banded Nashville Warbler and Ovenbird. On September 5 at Barr Lake SP Banding Station, Meredith McBurney banded Willow Flycatcher, Dusky Flycatcher, Nashville Warbler, and 27 Clay-colored Sparrows. On September 6 at Barr Lake Banding Station, Meredith McBurney banded Dusky Flycatcher and Ovenbird. On September 7 at Barr Lake Banding Station, Meredith McBurney banded 2 Clay-colored Sparrows.
---On September 3 at Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR First Creek John Breitsch reported Orchard Oriole.
---On September 5 at Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR, Cathy Sheeter reported 2 Mississippi Kites. On September 7 at Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR, Candice Johnson reported Solitary Sandpiper, Rough-legged Hawk, 6 Clay-colored Sparrow, 3 Brewer's Sparrow, and 3 Lark Bunting.
ARCHULETA COUNTY:
---On September 4 at Echo Canyon Lake SWA, Ben Bailey and Lindell Dillon reported 2 Mexican Duck, Cassin's Vireo, Eastern Kingbird.
---On September 5 at 351 Hermosa, Pagosa Strings, Beck Runte reported Clay-colored Sparrow.
BENT COUNTY:
---On September 4 at Van's Grove, Mark Peterson reported Carolina Wren.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On September 5 at Little Gaynor Lake, Dean Shoup reported Bufflehead.
---On September 5 at Green Mountain Cemetery in Boulder, Bill Kaempfer reported Gray Flycatcher, 2 Cassin's Kingbirds, Clay-colored Sparrow.
---On September 6 at Walden Ponds Cottonwood Marsh, Nathan Pieplow reported 3 Solitary Sandpiper and Chestnut-sided Warbler (hatch yr f).
---On September 6 at Sagamore and W Coal Creek Dr in Superior, Peter Ruprecht reported ad f Merlin.
CHAFFEE COUNTY:
---On September 6 at The Link School – Base Camp, Christian Hagenlocher reported Merlin.
DENVER COUNTY:
---On September 6 at Bluff Lake Nature Center, George Ho reported Gray Flycatcher.
---On September 6 at Heron Pond NA, Doug Kibbe and Elaine Wagner reported Hammond's Flycatcher, Cassin's Sparrow, and Clay-colored Sparrow.
EAGLE COUNTY:
---On September 5 in Minturn, Eric Culbertson reported Clay-colored Sparrow, 6 Eastern Kingbirds, and Loggerhead Shrike.
EL PASO COUNTY:
--- On September 4 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown banded 108 Chipping Sparrows, 10 Clay-colored Sparrows. On September 5 at Clear Spring Ranch, Terence Berger reported Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern), Cassin's Vireo, and Ovenbird. On September 5 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown banded 3 Brewer's Sparrows, 61 Chipping Sparrows, 96 Clay-colored Sparrows, Virginia's Warbler (juv f), Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. On September 6 Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown banded 97 Chipping Sparrows, 28 Clay-colored Sparrows, Brewer's Sparrow.
---On September 7 at Chio Basin Ranch, John Drummond reported Red-headed Woodpecker, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Gray Flycatcher, Dusky Flycatcher, 12 Clay-colored Sparrows, 5 Brewer's Sparrows, and Northern Waterthrush
---On September 6 at Smith Creek Ponds, Alan Versaw reported Olive-sided Flycatcher, Pinyon Jay, and 14 Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay.
---On September 6 at Trails End Lift Station, Darth Aves reported Eastern Phoebe.
---On September 6 at Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Joel Adams reported Mississippi Kite.
---On September 6 at Memorial Park and Prospect Lake in Colorado Springs, Dale and Joel Adams reported Olive-sided Flycatcher, Hammond's Flycatcher, Gray Flycatcher, 2 Dusky Flycatchers, Cordilleran Flycatcher, 2 Cassin's Vireos, 2 Clay-colored Sparrows, 2 Brewer's Sparrows.
---On September 6 at Kettle Lakes, John Drummond reported 6 Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.
---On September 6 at Fountain Creek Regional Park, Joel and Dale Adams reported Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern).
---On September 7 at Hanover Road, John Drummond reported Curve-billed Thrasher and Sage Thrasher.
JEFFERSON COUNTY:
---On September 6 on Lair O'the Bear Park, Bruce Cyganowski reported Nashville Warbler and Sage Thrasher.
---On September 6 at Belmar Park, Frank Farrell, Mark Chavez, Timo Mitzen, Gwen Moore, and Scott Somershoe reported Blackpoll Warbler, Cassin's Vireo, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. On Septmeber 7 at Belmar Park, Reed Gorner reported Blackpoll Warbler.
---On September 6 at Welchester Tree Grant Park, Frank Farrell reported Hooded Warbler. On September 7 at Welchester Tree Grant Park, Myron Gerhard reported Hooded Warbler.
LA PLATA COUNTY:
---On September 4 at Pastorius Reservoir, Jason St Pierre reported 2 Solitary Sandpiper, 2 Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Nashville Warbler, and Northern Parula. On September 5 at Pastorius Reservoir, David Dunford reported Solitary Sandpiper and 2 Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay.
---On September 6 at 16919 Hwy 140 Hesperus, Steve Rhodes reported Gray Vireo and Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay.
LARIMER COUNTY:
---On September 4 at Timnath Reservoir, Iren Fortune and Bobbie Tilmant reported Buff-breasted Sandpiper, Marbled Godwit, Semipalmated Sandpiper, and Herring Gull; Josh Bruening reported Greater White-fronted Goose, 4 Marbled Godwit, 14 Semipalmated Sandpiper, 2 Caspian Tern, Gray Flycatcher, and Cassin's Kingbird. On September 5 at Timnath Reservoir, Christine Sparks, Andy Bankert, John Shenot, Gwen Moore, Josh Bruening, and Jay Breidt reported 3 Caspian Tern, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, 2 Marbled Godwit, 14 Stilt Sandpipers, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and 2 Clay-colored Sparrows; Nick Komar, Nick Komar, Junior and Sean Walters reported American Avocet, 2 Marbled Godwit, 2 Semipalmated Plover, 46 Stilt Sandpipers, Buff-bellied Sandpiper, 6 Semipalmated Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper and 3 Solitary Sandpipers. On September 7 at Timnath Reservoir, Joe Mammoser reported Sanderling on east shore.---On September 3 at Spring Creek Bike Trail just N of Spring Canyon Park, Brad Biggerstaff reported Nashville Warbler.
---On September 4 at Timnath Reservoir east bay, David Tonnessen reported 4 Clay-colored Sparrows, 12 Savannah Sparrows, and Orange-crowned Warbler.
---On September 5 at Wellington SWA – Cobb Lake Unit, Andy Bankert reported 10 Northern Bobwhite, Cassin's Kingbird, Willet, 4 Marsh wren, and 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.
---On September 6 at Dixon Reservoir, Brad Biggerstaff, Jay Breidt, and Nick Komar reported 2 Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, 12 Bushtit, and hatch year Blackpoll Warbler. On September 7 at Dixon Reservoir, David Wade reported Clay-colored Sparrow, Nashville Warbler, and Blackpoll Warbler.
---On September 6 at Tri-Lakes region, Joshua Smith reported Clay-colored Sparrow and 5 Brewer's Sparrows.
---On September 7 at Pineridge Natural Area, Robin Welsh reported Ovenbird.
MESA COUNTY:
---On September 5 at James M Robb Colorado River SP – Pear Park Section, Ryan Claar reported Black-necked Stilt, and Clay-colored Sparrow.
---On September 4 at Green Heron Pond, Christine Alexander and Tyler Wilson reported Black-necked Stilt, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Western Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, Black Phoebe, and 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.
---On September 5 at Grand Junction Wildlife Area, David Price reported Merlin.
---On September 4 at Highline Lake SP, Mike Henwood reported Willow Flycatcher.
---On September 4 at Powderhorn Ski Area, Mike Henwood reported Cordilleran Flycatcher.
---On September 5 at Grand Mesa –Old Grand Mesa Road, Mike Henwood reported 2 Cordilleran Flycatchers.
---On September 7 at Grand Mesa – Lands End, Carol Ortenzio reported 6 American Pipit, Canada Jay and 15 Brewer's Sparrows.
MORGAN COUNTY:
---On September 5 at Jackson Reservoir, Tina Jones reported Long-billed Curlew and Caspian Tern.
OURAY COUNTY:
---On September 6 at Ridgway SP, Dallas Creek Area, Adam Cupito reported 8 Dusky Flycatcher and banded Nashville Warbler. On September 7 at Ridgway SP, Dallas Creek Area, Adam Cupito banded Cordilleran Flycatcher and reported Cassin's Vireo and Fox Sparrow (slate-color).
PHILLIPS COUNTY:
---On September 4 at Lion's Club Fishin' Hole, Steve Mlodinow reported Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Bell's Vireo, Cassin's Vireo, 6 Brown Thrasher, and Northern Waterthrush.
PUEBLO COUNTY:
---On September 7 at Chico Basin Ranch, Alan Ketcham and John Drummond reported Merlin, 8 Virginia Rail, 8 Sora,
Semipalmated Sandpiper, 7 Solitary Sandpiper, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Great Crested Flycatcher, Cassin's Vireo, Blue-headed Vireo, 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Curve-billed Thrasher, 7 Sage Thrasher, 6 Clay-colored Sparrow, 4 Brewer's Sparrows, 7 Savannah Sparrows, and Ovenbird.
PROWERS COUNTY:
---On September 5 in Lamar on S 13th St., Dorothy Russell reported m Baltimore Oriole.
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY:
---On September 5 at Snyder's Pond, George Steele reported 6 Wilson's Phalarope. On September 6 at Snyder's Pond George Steele reported 3 Wilson's Phalarope
SUMMIT COUNTY:
---On September 3 at Old Dillon Reservoir, Tyler Wilson reported 5 White-faced Ibis.
WASHINGTON COUNTY:
---On September 4 at Prewitt Reservoir, Bob Shade and Steve Kingswood reported 150 Stilt Sandpipers, 3 Pectoral Sandpipers, Piping Plover and Black Terns. On September 6 at Prewitt Reservoir, Loch Kilpatrick reported American Avocet, Black-bellied Plover, 15 Semipalmated Plover, Piping Plover, Marbled Godwit, 86 Stilt Sandpipers, 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, 6 Semipalmated Sandpipers, Western Sandpiper, 4 Solitary Sandpiper, and 15 Black Tern. On September 7 at Prewitt Reservoir, Kathy Mihm Dunning, Dean Shoup, Joey Kellner, and Norm Erthal reported 4 American Avocet, 12 Semipalmated Plover, Piping Plover, Marbled Godwit, 48 Stilt Sandpiper, Sandering, 6 Pectoral Sandpipers, 6 Semipalmated Sandpiper, 5 Red-necked Pharlarope, Sabine's Gull, 33 Black Tern, and Common Tern.
WELD COUNTY:
---On September 4 at Gress Reservoir, David Tonnessen reported Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.
---On September 4 at Windsor Reservoir, David Tonnessen reported Lesser Black-backed Gull.
---On September 5 at Norma's Grove, Gene Rutherford reported Gray Flycatcher, Red-naped Sapsucker, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and F Black-and-white Warbler.
---On September 6 at 38278 CR 51 Eaton, Gene Rutherford reported juv Green Heron.
YUMA COUNTY:
---On September 4 at Stalker Lake SWA, Steve Mlodinow reported Brown Creeper, Solitary Sandpiper, ad YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, 2 Red-headed Woodpecker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Willow Flycatcher, Dusky Flycatcher, Clay-colored Sparrow, 2 Baltimore Oriole, Nashville Warbler and 6 Northern Cardinal. On September 7 at Stalker Lake SWA, Norm Erthal, Joey Kellner, Dean Shoup, and Kathy Mihm Dunning reported 1ad YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON.
DFO Field Trips
FALL COUNT: Barr Lake State Park
Saturday, September 8
6:00 AM – 3:00 PM
David Hill (d_d_hill AT comcast.net; 303-870-4316)
FALL COUNT: Audubon Nature Center
Saturday, Septmeber 8
6:15 AM – 3:00 PM
Karen Drozda (drozforte AT AOL.com; 303-388-0891)
FALL COUNTY: Chatfield State Park
Saturday, September 8
6:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Joey Kellner (vireo1 AT comcast.net; 303-978-1748)
FALL COUNT: Lower Bear Creek
Saturday, September 8
6:30 AM – 3:00 PM
Mark Amershek (mamershek AT msn.com; 303-329-8646)
FALL COUNT: Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR
Sunday, September 9
6:15 AM – 3:00 PM
David Hill (d_d_hill AT comcast.net; 303-870-4316)
This trip is FULL.
FALL COUNT: Castewood Canyon State Park
Sunday, September 9
6:30 AM – 3:00 PM
Karen Drozda (drozforte AT AOL.com; 303-388-0891)
FALL COUNTY: Barr Lake Periphery
Sunday, September 9
7:30 AM – 10:30 PM
Gregg Goodrich (GreggGoodrich AT gmail.com; 303-655-9135)
Cherry Creek SP Wetland Loop
Sunday, September 9
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Mary Keithler (mkeithler AT yahoo.com; 303-771-1421)
Good Birding,
Joyce Takamine
Boulder
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