Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date: July 23, 2017
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, July 23 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 now using the new AOU checklist and the order of families has changes.
Trumpeter Swan (*Archuleta)
Wood Duck (*Kiowa)
Mallard (Mexican Intergrade) (*Weld)
Barrow's Goldeneye (Chaffee)
Ruddy Duck (Cheyenne)
Northern Bobwhite (*Logan)
Lesser Prairie-Chicken (*Cheyenne)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (*Kiowa)
Black Swift (*Boulder)
Semipalmated Plover (Bent)
Mountain Plover (Weld)
Long-billed Curlew (Bent, *Kiowa)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Bent, *Kiowa)
Solitary Sandpiper (*Logan)
Black Tern (El Paso, *Kiowa)
Common Loon (Ouray)
Mississippi Kite (Baca, Cheyenne, *El Paso)
Lewis's Woodpecker (*Arculeta)
Red-headed Woodpecker (Adams, Baca, Cheyenne, El Paso, Kiowa, *Logan, *Weld)
Acorn Woodpecker (*Pueblo)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Pueblo)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (Baca)
American Three-toed Woodpecker (Gunnison, Mesa)
EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE (*Logan)
Least Flycatcher (Cheyenne, Douglas, *Logan)
Eastern Phoebe (Baca, *Boulder, Douglas, Jefferson)
Cassin's Kingbird (Baca)
Bell's Vireo (*Logan)
Chihuahuan Raven (Baca, Fremont, Kiowa)
Purple Martin (Las Animas, *Mesa)
Pacific Wren (*Boulder)
Bewick's Wren (Baca, *Montezuma)
Curve-billed Thrasher (Baca, *El Paso, Fremont)
Lucy's Warbler (*Montezuma)
Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Baca)
Canyon Towhee (Baca, *El Paso)
Brewer's Sparrow (Arapahoe)
BAIRD'S SPARROW (Larimer)
Fox Sparrow (*Boulder, Larimer, San Juan)
Summer Tanager (Baca, Montezuma)
Indigo Bunting (*Kiowa)
Dickcissel (Bent, Boulder, Chaffee, Cheyenne, El Paso, *Kiowa, Las Animas)
Bobolink (Boulder)
Great-tailed Grackle (*Kiowa)
Baltimore Oriole (*Logan, *Weld)
ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On July 19 at Parker Jordan Centennial Open Space, Cynthia Madsen and David Hill reported juv
Brewer's Sparrow.
ARCHULETA COUNTY:
---On July 22 at Pinon Lake Reservoir, Brandon Nooner reported Trumpeter Swan and 2 Lewis's Woodpeckers.
BACA COUNTY:
---On July 18 at Cottonwood Canyon, Evan Carlson reported 6 Mississippi Kites, Red-headed Woodpecker, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Eastern Phoebe, 4 Cassin's Kingbirds, 3 Bewick's Wrens, Rufous-crowned Sparrow, 4 Canyon Towhee, Summer Tanager.
---On July 18 at Cottonwood Canyon (southern loop), Evan Carlson reported 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers, 3 Cassin's Kingbirds, 4 Chihuahuan Ravesn, Curve-billed Thrasher, and 2 Rufous-crowned Sparrows.
BENT COUNTY:
---On July 21 at Adobe Creek Reservoir, Cole Wolf reported Semipalmated Plover, 18 Long-billed Curlew,
8 Semipalmated Sandpipers, and 3 Diickcissel.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On July 22 at Rocky Mountain NP, Wild Basin, Renee Casias reported 3 Black Swift, Pacific Wren, and Fox Sparrow.
---On July 19 at Brainard Lake, Matt Hofeditz and Boulder Bird Club reported Fox Sparrow.
---On July 22 at Boulder Creek at 75th St., David Blue reported Eastern Phoebe.
CHAFFEE COUNTY:
---On July 17 on CR 128 in Poncha Springs, Van Remsen reported 2 Dickcissels.
---On July 17 at Sands Lake SWA, Van Remsen reported Barrow's Goldeneye.
CHEYENNE COUNTY:
---On July 18 in Kit Carson (town), Steve Mlodinow reported 4 Red-headed Woodpeckers.
---On July 18 in Cheyenne Wells, Steve Mlodinow reported Ruddy Ducky and Mississippi Kite.
---On July 18 on CR 9 between CR DD and CR GG, Steve Mlodinow reported 2 Least Flycathcers and 22 Dickcissels.
---On July 22 on CR 2 N of CR M, Steve Mlodinow reported 2 Lesser Prairie-Chickens
DOUGLAS COUNTY:
---On July 18 at Chatfield SP Platte River Parking Area, David Suddjian and DFO field trip reported 4 Eastern Phoebe at nest at restroom (1 ad, 3 good size nestlings) and 2 Least Flycatchers.
EL PASO COUNTY:
---On July 19 at Ramah Reservoir SWA, Cheri Phillips reported Black Tern, 2 Red-headed Woodpecker and 4 Dickcissel.
---On July 18 at Adams Open Space in Fountain, Tanja Britton reported Mississippi Kite.
---On July 21 at Venetucci Farm, David Rudin reported a flyover Mississippi Kite.
---On July 22 on Birdsall Road, Scott Somershoe reported Curve-billed Thrasher and 9 Canyon Towhee.
---On July 22 at Fountain Creek Regional Park, Robb Hinds reported Mississippi Kite.
FREMONT COUNTY:
---On July 17 at Siloam Road, Evan Carlson reported 2 Chihuahuan Raven and Curve-billed Thrasher.
JEFFERSON COUNTY:
---On July 17 at Deer Creek at W Buckhorn Rd, David Suddjian reported Eastern Phoebe.
KIOWA COUNTY:
---On July 17 at Neenoshe Reservoir, Gloria Nikolai reported 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers and 2 Chihuahuan Ravens. On July 22 at Neenoshe Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Long-billed Curlew, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Red-headed Woodpecker, Indigo Bunting and 445 Great-tailed Grackles.
---On July 22 at Adobe Creek Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Semipalmated Sandpiper and 6 Dickcissel.
---On July 22 at Lower Queens Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported f Wood Duck, 3 Black Terns, and Dickcissel.
LARIMER COUNTY:
---On July 20 at Soapstone Prairie NA, Derek Lecy reported hearing BAIRD'S SPARROW.
LAS ANIMAS COUNTY:
---On July 20 on CR 42 west of Aguilar, Brandon Percival reported m Purple Martin and 6 Dickcissels.
LOGAN COUNTY:
---On July 22 at Tamarack Ranch SWA, Heather and Riley Morris reported 5 Northern Bobwhite, 4 Solitary Sandpipers, 19 Red-headed Woodpeckers, EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE, Least Flycatcher, 2 Bell's Vireo, 2 Baltimore Orioles.
MESA COUNTY:
---On July 19 at Fruita Reservoir #1, Mike Henwood reported 2 American Three-toed Woodpeckers (ad m and fledging)
---On July 20 on Grand Mesa, David Price reported 2 American Three-toed Woodpeckers.
---On July 22 NE of Collbran where 64.3 Rd enters first Aspen Grove, Nic Korte reported 2 m Purple Martins.
MONTEZUMA COUNTY:
---On July 22 on Road G (37.3369, -108.8347), Steve Larson reported 2 Lucy's Warblers and Bewick's Wren.
PUEBLO COUNTY:
---On July 17 at Pueblo Mt Park, Evan Carlson reported Acorn Woodpecker. On July 22 at Pueblo Mt Park, Van Truan reported Acorn Woodpecker.
WELD COUNTY:
---On July 18 on CR 89 just N of Hwy 14, Noah Kuck reported Mountain Plover.
---On July 22 at Behren's Reservoir, Gene Rutherford reported Mallard (Mexican intergrade).
---On July 22 at S Platte River near CR 61, Gene Rutherford reported Red-headed Woodpecker and 3 Baltimore Orioles (1 f, 2 1st fall m).
Denver Field Ornithologists Field Trips
The DFO Field Trip for Sunday, July 23 will be to Morrison Nature Center at Star K Ranch led by A>J. Gest (offsetaj AT comcast.net; 303-994-2420). Directions: Meet at 0800. Center is located south of I-70 on Smith Road between Chambers. Address 16002 E. Smith Road. Bring snacks, water, and binoculars; scopes are optional. Portable toilets on site. Register online or contact leader.
For more information on the field trips go to dfobirds.org.
Good Birding,
Joyce Takamine
Boulder
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