[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Compiler:  Mary Driscoll

Date         July 17, 2013

email:       rba AT cobirds.org

phone:      303-659-8750

 

This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, July 17, 2013  sponsored by the Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message, you can skip the recording by pressing the star key (*) on your phone at any time. Please leave your name, phone number, detailed directions including county, and dates for each sighting. It would be helpful if you would spell your last name.

 

Highlight species include (* indicates new information on this species in this report):

 

Pacific Loon (El Paso)

Red-necked Grebe (Jackson)

TRICOLORED HERON (Fremont)

REDDISH EGRET (Kiowa)

Green Heron (Boulder, Fremont)

American Golden-Plover (Washington)

Snowy Plover (Washington)

LAUGHING GULL (El Paso, Crowley,Washington)

American Three-toed Woodpecker (Boulder)

Great Crested Flycatcher (Washington)

Pacific Wren (Grand) 

Blue-winged Warbler (Park County)

Black-throated Green Warbler (Chaffee)

Summer Tanager (Freemont)

Scott's Oriole (Montezuma)

 

BOULDER COUNTY: 

--A Green Heron has been at Sawhill Ponds in Boulder, since July 7.  The Heron has been spotted in the pond immediately SW of the duck blind.

--On July 15, around 11:00 am, Wait reported an American Three-toed Woodpecker, while walking up the 4th of July trail towards Arapahoe Pass. The bird was on the north side of the path.  

CHAFFEE COUNTY:  On July 7, Eric DeFonso reported hearing the song of a  Black-throated Green Warbler while he was doing RMBO work at a high elevation.

He will provide directions to the location if you are interested and like to do high elevation birding at 12,000. His email address is: bay.wren@gmail.com 

CROWLEY COUNTY:

--On June 29, Dowell reported a 1st summer LAUGHING GULL at Lake Henry, seen again on July 12, by Dowell, but not present on July 13.

 

EL PASO COUNTY:

--A non-breeding ad LAUGHING GULL was reported by Peterson on June 28, in the SE corner of Big Johnson and was seen again on July 13, by Kibbe.

--On July 13,  Kibbe reports that the Pacific Loon continues at Big Johnson.

 

FREMONT COUNTY:

-- On July 10, Core reported a Summer Tanager near the MacKenzie parking area of the Canon City Riverwalk. (Access is only from Reynolds Ave.)

-- On July 7, Moss reported that the ad TRICOLORED HERON was at Holcim wetlands and one Green Heron was seen by Kibbe at Holcim on July 13. (Added bonus was a fledgling Least Bittern.)

GRAND COUNTY:  On July 6, Jones reported hearing a Pacific Wren in Arapahoe National Forest.  The bird was just off the highway 125, about 12 yds. It was singing in a Willow Carr area, which was bordered by many dead Lodgepole Pines, on the north side of the campground entrance road.  The wren was heard at the Sawmill Gulch campground.

 

JACKSON COUNTY:  On July 12, Lee Farrell reported a Red-necked Grebe in breeding plumage on Lake John, outside of Walden.  Bring a scope as it is generally in the middle of the lake.

 

KIOWA COUNTY:

--On July 13, Dowell reports a white morph REDDISH EGRET at Lake Meredith, probably the same bird that was seen by Nelson at Adobe Creek Res.

-- On July 5 and July 6,  Nelson reports a white morph REDDISH EGRET at Adobe Creek Reservoir 200 yards east of the easternmost camping unit in the SE part of the lake.

MONTEZUMA COUNTY:

-- Garrison reports that his mother had two Scott's Orioles in her back yard, on July 13, from 7:00-7:30 AM.  They were eating apricots.

She is willing for birders to try to see them.  Her address: 203 S. Market, Cortez, CO, (blue house). Knock on her door, as the tree is in her fenced back yard.

PARK COUNTY:  On July 9, Paula Hansley reported hearing a Blue-winged Warbler in Como while she was doing a USGS breeding bird route.  

After finishing her route, she was unable to find the bird.

WASHINGTON COUNTY: 

--On July 14, Dowell reports a Laughing Gull, (2nd y,worn, not unlike the Big Johnson Bird) a Snowy Plover, ad., and an American Golden-Plover, (apparent first alternate plumage) on the south end of the reservoir in the mud.

--Dowell reported a Great Crested Flycatcher on July 14 at Prewitt Reservoir, the bird was along the inlet channel.

 

DFO FIELD TRIPS: 

Saturday, July 20, Filius and Genesee Mountain Parks plus hummingbirds (Jefferson County) Lynn Willcockson, 303-757-7000 Limit 10, so please call leader. Meet at 8 a.m. at Filius Park shelter house. Take I-70 west to exit 252 to Evergreen Parkway (Hwy. 74). Go 2 miles on Hwy. 74 to first traffic light, then turn right into Filius Park. Will visit a hummingbird "hotspot."

Sunday, July 21, Mt. Falcon Park (Jefferson County) Lois Levinson, 303-908-3403 Meet leader at 7 a.m. at upper parking lot of west side of Mount Falcon Park. From C-470 and US 285 South: Turn right at the Indian Hills exit to Parmalee Gulch Road. Follow Parmalee Gulch Road for approximately 2.5 miles to Picutis Road, turn right at Picutis, then follow the signs for Mt. Falcon to the upper parking area. Mt. Falcon features a variety of habitats, so we can hope to see Pygmy and White-breasted Nuthatch, Williamson's Sapsucker, Cordilleran Flycatcher, Western Tanager, Townsend's Solitaire, and Western and Mountain Bluebird. This will be a half-day trip, so lunch is optional. Bring water, snacks, and sun protection. Call leader if you plan to go.

Good Birding,

Mary Driscoll

Unincorporated Arapahoe County

 

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