Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: March 30, 2017
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, March 30 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 and the order of families has changed.
BRANT (Arapahoe)
Eurasian Wigeon (Weld)
Mallard (Mexican intergrade) (Rio Grande)
Trumpeter Swan (Archuleta, Routt)
Barrow's Goldeneye (Routt)
Mountain Plover (*Costilla, *Kiowa, *Lincoln)
Tundra Swan (Weld)
Mew Gull (Larimer)
Thayer's Gull (Larimer)
ICELAND GULL (Weld)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Larimer, Montezuma,Weld)
Great Black-backed Gull (Denver, Larimer)
Williamson's Sapsucker ( Pueblo)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (*Otero)
American Three-toed Woodpecker (Clear Creek)
Black Phoebe (Archuleta, *Boulder, Denver, Fremont, Mesa, Pueblo)
Eastern Phoebe (Adams, Douglas, Fremont, *Otero)
Winter Wren (El Paso)
Carolina Wren (Pueblo)
Bewick's Wren (Moffat, *Otero, Pueblo)
Lapland Longspur (Weld)
Chestnut-collared Longspur (Kiowa, Kit Carson, *Lincoln)
McCown's Longspur (Kit Carson, *Lincoln)
Rufous-crowned Sparrow (*Otero)
Savannah Sparrow (Kit Carson, Mesa, Montrose, Saguache)
Fox Sparrow (El Paso, Routt)
Lincoln's Sparrow (Adams, Boulder, El Paso, Larimer, Montrose, Otero, Weld)
EASTERN MEADOWLARK (Douglas)
Great-tailed Grackle (*Boulder, Jefferson, Larimer, Weld)
ADAMS COUNTY:
---On March 25 at East Lake Shores Park, Riley Morris reported Lincoln's Sparrow.
---On March26 at Barr Lake SP, Will Sebern reported Eastern Phoebe.
---ON March 27 at Barr Lake SP, Diane Roberts, Karen Drozda, and Rebecca Laroche reported Lincoln's Sparrow.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On March 27, Deb Carstensen reported BRANT at her home off of Platte Canyon Drive. Please call her
at 303-408-3010 for more information. Several birders saw the BRANT including Tim Ryan, Marie Hoerner, and Doug Kibbe.
ARCHULETA COUNTY:
---On March 28 at Pinon Lake Reservoir, Ben Bailey and Byron Greco reported Trumpeter Swan.
---On March 28 at Navajo Reservoir/Piedra River upstream, Ben Bailey and Bryon Greco reported 2 Black Phoebes.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On March 22 at Boulder Creek and 75th St., Jonathan Montgomery reported Black Phoebe. On March 24 at Boulder Creek and 75th St., Christian Nunes and Jeff Parks reported Black Phoebe. On March 25 at Boulder Creek and 75th St, David Dowell, Luke and Tracy Pheneger, Ted Floyd, Adam Vesely, Steve Frye, and David Waltman reported Black Phoebe. On March 26 at Boulder Creek and 75th St, Mark Minner-lee and Willem van vliet- reported Black Phoebe. On March 26 at Walden/Sawhill Ponds, Christian Nunes reported Black Phoebe at NW corner of waste water treatment plant and Lincoln's Sparrow. On March 27 Will Niccolls and Sue Riffe reported Black Phoebe at Boulder Creek and 75th St. On March 29, Sharon Norfleet reported that the Boulder Bird Club saw Black Phoebe at Boulder Creek and 75th St.
---On March 29 at Sombrero Marsh, the Boulder Bird Club reported Great-tailed Grackle.
CLEAR CREEK COUNTY:
---On March 28 at Guanella Pass Campground, Craig Robson reported 3 American Three-toed Woodpeckers.
COSTILLA COUNTY:
---On March 29 south of Smith Reservoir, John Rawinski and John Stump reported 9 Mountain Plovers.
DENVER COUNTY:
---On March 24 at Marston Reservoir, west end, Doug Kibbe reported imm Great Black-backed Gull.
---On March 25 at First Creek at DEN Open Space, Cynthia Madsen and David Hill reported Black Phoebe at First Creek about 100 yards N of 56h Ave bridge.
EL PASO COUNTY:
---On March 28 at Ute Valley Park, David Tonnessen reported Lincoln's Sparrow.
DOUGLAS COUNTY:
---On March 21 on Cherry Creek Tail – south end to Walker Road Gravel Pond, Hugh Kingery reported Eastern Phoebe. On March 22, Kingery reported Eastern Phoebe singing is same spot. On March 25 on Cherry Creek trail S end to Walker Rd Gravel Pond, Cheryl Teuton, Hugh Kingery, and Glenn Walbek reported Eastern Phoebe. On March 27, Hugh Kingery reported Eastern Phoebe on Cherry Creek trail S end to Walk Rd Gravel Pond.
---On March 25 at Chatfield SP, Gregg Goodrich reported that the DFO Field Trip has an Eastern Phoebe on the SE side of Kingfisher Bridge. On March 27 at Chatfield SP upstream of Kingfisher Bridge, Christine Alexander reported Eastern Phoebe.
EL PASO COUNTY:
---On March 20 at Sinton Pond Open Space, David Tonnessen reported Winter Wren. On March 23 at Sinton Pond Open Space, David Tonnessen reported Winter Wren and Fox Sparrow (Red). On March 23, Chris Bronbin reported Winter Wren at Sinton Pond. On March 24 at Sinton Pond Open Space, Glenn Walbek and Mark Peterson reported Fox Sparrow (Red).
FREMONT COUNTY:
---On March 22 in Canon City, Dan Stringer reported Black and Eastern Phoebe. On March 23, SeEtta Moss reported a pair of Black Phoebes between Sell's Lake and Arkansas River and Eastern Phoebe in
Canon City. On March 25, SeEtta Moss reported a pair of Black Phoebes near MacKenzie Ave. bridge in
Canon City.
JEFFERSON COUNTY:
---On March 25 at Harriman Lake Park, Chris Brown reported Great-tailed Grackle.
KIOWA COUNTY:
---On March 26 at Neenoshe Reservoir (only southern pool), Tony Leukering reported lots of waterfowl and 70 Chestnut-collared Longspurs and 110 longspur species.
---On March 29 about 5 miles south of Eads on CR 40, Bill Kaempfer reported 5 Mountain Plovers.
KIT CARSON COUNTY:
---On March 27 on Creek B (road) Glenn Walbek reported 7 Chestnut-collared Longspurs, 15 McCown's Longspurs and Savannah Sparrow. The longspurs are possibly nesting in this area.
LARIMER COUNTY:
---On March 13 at Horseshoe Reservoir in Loveland, Andy Bankert reported a 1st cyc Mew Gull, 14 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Thayer's Gull, ICELAND GULL, and early Franklin's Gulls. On March 19 at Horseshoe Reservoir, Nick Komar reported Mew Gull and 9 Lesser Black-backed Gulls. On March 23, Nick Komar and David Wade reported Mew Gull and 10 Lesser Black-backed Gulls (4 ad, 2 2nd-cyc, 4 1-st cyc). On March 26 at Horseshoe Reservoir, Nick Komar reported 8 Lesser Black-backed Gulls (4 ad, 4 imm) and 1-st cyc Great Black-backed Gull.
---On March 25 at Wellington SWA Cobb Lake Unit, Andy Bankert and Mike McCloy reported 2 Lincoln's Sparrows and 23 Great-tailed Grackles.
LINCOLN COUNTY:
---On March 29on CR 3E, Bill Kaempfer reported 50 longspurs (McCown's and Chestnut-collared) and 1 Mountain Plover.
MESA COUNTY:
---On March 22 on L Road between 20 – 21 Roads, Mike Henwood and Kathleen McGinley reported Savannah Sparrow.
---On March 24 at Clifton Nature Park, Brett Walker reported Black Phoebe.
MOFFAT COUNTY:
---On March 22 on CR 134, Blue Mountain, Jan Leonard reported a singing Bewick's Wren.
MONTEZUMA COUNTY:
---On March 26 at Totten Reservoir, Jim Beatty reported ad Lesser Black-backed Gull.
MONTROSE COUNTY:
---On March 23 west of Nucla, Coen Dexter reported Lincoln's Sparrow and 9 Savannah Sparrows.
OTERO COUNTY:
---On March 26 at CR 28, north of CR FF, Bill Kaempfer reported Lincoln's Sparrow.
---On March 27 – 28 at Picketwire Canyon (Comanche National Grasslands), Nathan Pieplow reported
Eastern Phoebe, Bewick's Wren, Rufous-crowned Sparrow, and Ladder-backed Woodpecker.
PUEBLO COUNTY:
---On March 25 on Arkansas River Trail east of Pueblo Blvd, Brandon Percival and Kara Carragher reported singing Carolina Wren.
---On March 28 at Pueblo Reservoir, Rock Canyon below dam, north of river, Ben Sampson reported Black Phoebe and 2 Bewick's Wrens.
RIO GRANDE COUNTY:
---On March 25 at Monte Vista NWR, Brandon Percival and Kara Carragher reported Mallard (Mexican intergrade).
ROUTT COUNTY:
---On March 22 on Yampa River Core Trail, Tresa Moulton reported 4 Slate-colored Fox Sparrows between the river and the Core Trail near Emerald Park ball field.
---On March 28 at Stagecoach Reservoir near Oak Creek, Tom Litteral reported imm Trumpeter Swan and 5 Barrow's Goldeneyes.
SAGUACHE COUNTY:
---On March 25 at Russell Lakes SWA, Peter Burke and Kara Carragher reported Savannah Sparrow.
WELD COUNTY:
---On March 14, Mlodinow reported an Eurasian Wigeon and Tundra Swan at Stewart's Pond (Private Property) at CR 37 and CR 46. On March 24 at Stewart's Pond, CSU Ornithologist Club, Cheri Phillips, Chery Teuton, and Brandon Nooner reported Tundra Swan and Eurasian Wigeon. On March 25 at Stewart's Pond, the Tundra Swan was reported by Nick Komar, David Wade, Austin Hess, Wendy Wibbens, Alison Hixon, Sue Riffe, and Steve Mlodinow. On March 26, at Stewart's Pond, Marie Hoerner reported Eurasian Wigeon; Rebecca Grieser reported Tundra Swan; and Ryan Graves reported both Tundra Swan and Eurasian Wigeon. On March 27, Mark Minner-Lee and Frank Farrell reported Tundra Swan at Stewart's Pond. On March 28, Mike McCloy reported Tundra Swan at Stewart's Pond.
---On March 26 at wetland on CR 46, Emil Yappert reported Tundra Swan.
---On March 26 at Lower Latham Reservoir, Cheri Phillips reported Lincoln's Sparrow and 6 Great-tailed Grackles.
---On March 26 at Union Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Lesser Black-backed Gull.
Denver Field Ornithologists Field Trips
The DFO Field Trip for Tuesday, March 28 will be to Chatfield SP led by David Suddjian (dsuddjian AT
gmail.com; 831-713-8659) Meet at 0700 for car-pooling at the intersection of S Wadsworth and Deer Creek Rd. Park on the north side of Deer Creek Rd, which is just south of C-470. State Parks pass or day pass required. Explore park and perhaps other nearby locations for early migrants, waterfowl, resident birds, and any raptors zooming by. Bring lunch, water, and scopes. Register online or contact leader.
The DFO Field Trip for Saturday, April 1 will be to Denver City Park led by Patrick O-Driscoll (patodrisk AT
gmail.com; 303-885-6955). Meet at 0730 at parking strip SE of 22nd Ave just north of Ferril Lake. From Colorado Blvd, turn west onto 22nd Ave and go past the Museum of Nature and Science. Turn left just before the zoo at the sign to the Pavilion Bandstand. Park on the left at the end of the parking area closest to Ferril Lake. Will focus on observation and photography of nesting cormorants, herons, and egrets in Ferril and Duck Lakes as part of DFO's Colonial Waterbird Nesting Project. Bring Spotting scope and camera if you have them. Night-herons and egrest (Ferril Lake) may be building nests, and cormorants (Duck Lake) will be into their nesting cycle. Bring water, snacks, and sunscreen. Register online or contact leader.
The DFO Field Trip for Sunday, April 2 will be to South Platte Park led by Gregg Goodrich (GreggGoodrich AT
gmail.com; 303-665-9135). Meet at 0800 at south end of South Platte Park near C-470. From C-470 take Platte canyon Rd/South Platte Park exit. From Platte canyon Rd at Depew Street turn southeast onto the entrance road for South Platte Park. Contuse past a 90-degree left turn and the first parking lot, and meet in the second parking lot.
Will walk up the south Platte for about two miles. Register online or contact leader.
Good Birding,
Joyce Takamine
Boulder
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