Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date: August 19, 2017
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, August 19 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.
Wood Duck (Boulder, Huerfano, Kiowa)
Bufflehead (Custer, Larimer)
Dusky Grouse (Eagle)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Baca)
Greater Roadrunner (Baca, *Huerfano, *Otero)
Chimney Swift (Denver, El Paso)
Black Rail (Bent, *Pueblo)
Sandhill Crane (Bent, Gunnison)
Black-necked Stilt (El Paso, Weld)
Black-bellied Plover (Kiowa)
Snowy Plover (Kiowa)
Semipalmated Plover (El Paso, Kiowa)
Long-billed Curlew (Boulder, Kiowa)
Stilt Sandpiper (*Crowley, El Paso, Weld)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Alamosa, El Paso)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Alamosa, Boulder, *Crowley, El Paso)
Short-billed Dowitcher (Weld)
Wilson's Snipe (*Otero)
Solitary Sandpiper (Boulder, *El Paso, Kiowa, Mesa, Montrose, Rio Blanco, Weld)
LITTLE GULL (Kiowa, Pueblo)
Laughing Gull (Kiowa)
Mew Gull (Larimer)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Arapahoe, *Crowley)
Least Tern (Kiowa)
Black Tern (Adams, El Paso, Kiowa, *Otero)
Common Tern (Adams, Arapahoe)
Common Loon (La Plata, Ouray)
Little Blue Heron (*Boulder)
SWALLOW-TAILED KITE (Prowers)
Mississippi Kite (*El Paso, Kiowa, Prowers, Pueblo)
Broad-winged Hawk (Fremont, Prowers)
Lewis's Woodpecker (La Plata)
Red-headed Woodpecker (Adams, Boulder, Elbert, El Paso, Kiowa, *Otero, Logan)
Acorn Woodpecker (Pueblo)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Custer, *Huerfano, La Plata, *Pueblo)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (*El Paso)
Merlin (*Pueblo)
American Three-toed Woodpecker (Eagle, El Paso, Gunnison)
Least Flycatcher (Kiowa, Larimer)
Gray Flycatcher (Boulder, Mesa)
Eastern Phoebe (Fremont)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Kiowa, Logan)
Cassin's Kingbird (El Paso)
Bell's Vireo (Prowers)
Gray Vireo (Archuleta, Montrose)
Gray Jay (El Paso, Gilpin)
Pinyon Jay (El Paso)
Chichuahuan Raven (Baca)
Purple Martin (Mesa)
Carolina Wren (Baca)
Bewick's Wren (*El Paso)
Veery (Gilpin)
Curve-billed Thrasher (*El Paso, *Otero)
American Pipit (Denver, Weld)
Brown-capped Rosy-Finch (El Paso)
Red Crossbill (Baca)
Northern Waterthrush (*El Paso, Saguache)
Nashville Warbler (Logan)
Grace's Warbler (*Pueblo)
Cassin's Sparrow (El Paso)
Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Baca, *Otero)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Baca, Eagle, El Paso)
Brewer's Sparrow (*El Paso, *Huerfano, Jackson, Montrose, *Otero, Rio Blanco)
Black-throated Sparrow (Montrose)
Lark Bunting (Custer, Gilpin, Jackson, Kiowa, Mesa)
Fox Sparrow (Eagle, Gilpin, San Juan)
Northern Cardinal (Prowers)
Indigo Bunting (Kiowa, Weld)
Painted Bunting (Baca)
Dickcissel (Baca, Boulder, El Paso, Kiowa, Larimer)
Bobolink (Boulder, El Paso)
Scott's Oriole (Mesa)
ADAMS COUNTY:
---On August 10 at Barr Lake SP, David Dowell reported Black Tern and Common Tern.
ALAMOSA COUNTY:
---On August 15 at Blanca Wetlands, Bez Bezuidenhouf reported Semipalmated Sandpipers and 20
Pectoral Sandpipers.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On August 10 at Aurora Reservoir, David Dowell reported imm Lesser Black-backed Gull. On August 12 at Aurora Reservoir, Glenn Walbek reported 2 Common Terns. On August 13 at Aurora Reservoir, Adams Vesely reported Common Tern.
ARCHULETA COUNTY:
---On August 17 at Reservoir Hill, Ben Bailey reported Gray Vireo.
BACA COUNTY:
---On August 13 at Picture Canyon, Renee Casias reorted 2 Chihuahuan Raven, 2 Rufous-crowned Sparrows, and Painted Bunting.
---On August 17 at Two Buttes SWA below dam, Nick Komar et al reported Greater Roadrunner, 3 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, heard Carolina Wren, Dickcissel, heard Red Crossbill, 6 Clay-colored Sparrows.
BENT COUNTY:
---On August 13 at CR 16 Marshes near Fort Lyon, Tom and Debbie Behnfield heard Black rail and saw 2 Sandhill Cranes head toward John Martin.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On August 13 at Heil Valey Ranch, Carl Starace reported Red-headed Woodpecker.
---On August 13 at Cottonwood Marsh, Jeff Parks reported Solitary Sandpiper.
---On August 13 at Lagerman Reservoir, Peter Burke reported 3 Long-billed Curlew. On August 14 at Lagerman Reservoir, Chris Owens reported 3 Long-billed Curlews.
---On August 16 at Walden Ponds, Jeff Parks reported juv Little Blue Heron and 6 Semipalmated Sandpipers; Jack and Ryan Bushong reported Little Blue Heron and 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers and Solitary Sandpiper. On August 17 at Walden Ponds, Tracy and Luke Pheneger reported 2 Wood Ducks, 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 2 Solitary Sandpipers, and Little Blue Heron. On August 18 at Walden Ponds, Willem van Vliet reported Little Blue Heron.
---On August 17 at Magnolia Campgound/trails Stephen Chang reported Gray Flycatcher.
CROWLERY COUNTY:
---On August 17 at Lake Meredith, John Drummond et al reported 3rd-cyc Lesser Black-backed Gull. On August 18 at Lake Meredith, Jim Rowroth et al reported Lesser Black-backed Gull.
---On August 17 at Lake Meredity Feedlot Sewage Ponds, Nick Komar reported 7 Stilt Sandpiper and 3 Semipalmated Sandpipers.
---On August 18 at Lake Meredith Feedlot Sewage Ponds, Rayan Adams et al reported 8 Stilt Sandpipers, 10 Semipalmated Sandpipers.
CUSTER COUNTY:
---On August 17 at DeWeese Reservoir, Kurt Mize reported f-type Bufflehead, 6 Williamson's Sapsuckers, f-type Lark Bunting.
DENVER COUNTY:
---On August 13 at Bluff Lake Nature Center, Ajit Antony reported 4 Chimney Swifts and 5 American Pipits.
EAGLE COUNTY:
---On August 13 at Beaver Creek Ski Area, Sean Caufield reported Fox Sparrow.
---On August 14 at Vall Ski Resort, David Suddjian reported 4 American Three-toed Woodpeckers (family group), and 4 Dusky Grouse.
ELBERT COUNTY:
---On August 15 on CR 89, Cheri Phillips and Maureen Blackford reported juv Red-headed Woodpecker and Clay-colored Sparrow.
EL PASO COUNTY:
---On August 8 at Ramah Reservoir SWA, David Tonnessen reported Semipalmated Plover, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, 10 Black Terns, and Dickcissel. On August 9 at Ramah Reservoir SWA, 6 Semipalmated Sandpiper, 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, 2 Stilt Sandpipers, Solitary Sandpiper, 4 Black Terns. On August 12 at Ramah Reservoir SWA, Cynthia Madsen, David Hill, and Diane Roberts reported 4 Stilt Sandpipers. On August 13 at Ramah Reservoir SWA, David Tonnessen reported Cassin's Kingbird, 3 Clay-colored Sparrows, 3 Dickcissel, and 6 Bobolink; Diane Roberts and Karen Drozda reported 2 Stilt Sandpiper and 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers.
---On August 7 at Venetucci Farm, Sharon Milito reported Mississippi Kite. On August 18 at Venetucci Farm, Van Truan reported Mississippi Kite.
---On August 9 in town of Fountain, Tanja Britton reported Mississippi Kite.
---On August 10 at Bear Creek Park West, David Tonnessen reported 22 flyover Pinyon Jay.
---On August 11 and 12 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown banded Northern Waterthrush. On August 17 and 18 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown banded Northern Waterthrush.
---On August 12 at Adams Open Space in Fountain, David Tonnessen reported 5 Mississippi Kites.
On August 13 at Adams Open Space, Tanja Britton reported Mississippi Kite. On August 17 at Adams Open Space, Cathy Bondy reported 3 Mississippi Kites.
---On August 12 at Fountain Creek Regional Park, David Tonnessen reported Mississippi Kite and Northern Waterthrush. On August 13 at Fountain Creek RP, Kevin Ash reported Mississippi Kite. On August 16 at Fountain Creek Regional Park, Will German and Gloria Nikolai reported Mississippi Kite.
On August 18 at Fountain Creek Regional Park, Nick Komar et al reported Mississippi Kite.
---On August 14 on Elk Park Trail, Rod Schmidt reported American Three-toed Woodpecker and Gray Jay.
---On August 14 on Pike's Peak Summit, Rod Schmidt reported 3 Brown-capped Rosy-Finch.
---On August 15 on Ramah Rd W and CR 93, Cheri Phillips and Maureen Blackford reported 2 Clay-colored Sparrows and Brewer's Sparrow.
---On August 16 on S Peyton Hwy, Don Marsh reported 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers and 2 Curve-billed Thrashers.
---On August 16 on BIrdsall Road, Gloria Nikolai reported 2 Curve-billed Thrashers and Mississippi Kite. ---On August 17 on Handover Rd, Diego Blanco reported Curve-billed Thrasher; Drew Beamer reported Curve-billed Thrasher and 4 Cassin's Sparrows.
---On August 17 at Chico Basin Ranch (fee area), Drew Beamer reported Curve-billed Thrasher and 7 Cassin's Sparrows; Diego Blanco reported 6 Curve-billed Thrashers, 2 Brewer's Sparrows and 4 Cassin's Sparrows. On August 17 at Chico Basin Ranch, Cynthia Hudson et al reported Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Curve-billed Thrasher, 7 Solitary Sandpipers, and 10 Cassin's Sparrows. On August 18 at Chico Basin Ranch, Dick Porter et al reported 5 Solitary Sandpipers, 3 Curve-billed Thrashers, 3 Brewer's Sparrows. On August 18 at Chico Basin Ranch, John Drummond et al reported Bewick's Wren and Ladder-backed Woodpecker.
---On August 12 at Big Johnson, David Tonnessen reported Black-necked Stilt and 2 Dickcissel. On August 13 at Big Johnson, Robb Hinds reported 2 Black-necked Stilts; Joy and Leonard Lake reported 4 Black-necked Stilts.
---On August 12 at Wainwright Drive in Colorado Springs, Mark Peterson reported Mississippi Kite and 10 Chimney Swifts.
FREMONT COUNTY:
---On August 13 at Canon City Riverwalk (Mackenzie Ave to S Raynolds Ave), Dale and Joel Adams reported Broad-winged Hawk and Eastern Phoebe.
GILPIN COUNTY:
---On August 8 on Tolland Road CR 16, Brian Johnson reported pair of Lark Buntings and Fox Sparrow.
---On August 15 on Rollins Pass Rd east side, Steve Mlodinow reported Veery.
---On August 15 at Knights of Phythias Cemetery, Steve Mlodinow reported Gray Flycatcher.
GUNNISON COUNTY:
---On August 10 going over Kebler Pass near Anthracite Creek, Tom McConnell reported 2 Sandhill Carnes west of Erickson Ranch CG.
HUERFANO COUNTY:
---On August 16 at Orlando Reservoir, Jay Withgott reported 3 Wood Ducks.
---On August 18 at Lathrop SP, Sharon Cormier-Aagard reported heard Greater Roadrunner, f Williamson's Sapsucker, 3 Brewer's Sparrows.
JACKSON COUNTY:
---On August 9 at Arapaho NWR Auto Loop, Tyler McClain reported 8 Brewer's Sparrows and pair of Lark Buntings.
KIOWA COUNTY:
---On August 13 at Neenoshe Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow and David Dowell reported Semipalmated Plover, Laughing Gull, Least Tern, 101 Black Terns, 6 Red-headed Woodpeckers, 2 Great Crested FlycatcherS.
---On August 13 at Upper queens/Neeshkah Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow and David Dowell reported Wood Duck, 6 juv LITTLE GULLS, 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers, Least Flycatcher, 3 Great Crested Flycatcher, Indigo Bunting, and Dickcissel.
---On August 13 at Lower Queens Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow and David Dowell reported sub-ad Mississippi Kite, 3 Long-billed Curlew, Red-headed Woodpecker, and Lark Bunting. On August 14 at Lower Queens Reservoir, Janeal Thompson reported 7 LITTLE GULLS.
---On August 17 at Abode Creek Reservoir (Blue Lake), Nick Komar reported from NE Shore Snowy Plover, Long-billed Curlew, and Black-bellied Plover. Nick says that access is terrible.
LA PLATA COUNTY:
---On August 16 at Vallecito Reservoir, David Dunford reported 2 Common Loons, 5 Lewis's Woodpeckers and Williamson's Sapsucker.
LARIMER COUNTY:
---On August 11 in Rocky Mountain NP on Cub Lake and Trail, Brian Genge reported 4 Least Flycatchers.
---On August 12 at Topminnow NA (East Horsetooth Gravel Pit), Brandon Nooner reported f-type Bufflehead.
---On August 14 at Horseshoe Reservoir, David Wade and Nick Komar reported Mew Gull.
---On August 16 at Reservoir Ridge NA, John Shenot reported ad f Dickcissel.
LOGAN COUNTY:
---On August 15 at Tamarack ranch SWA, Shannon Skalos and Andrea Mott reported Red-headed Woodpecker, 2 Great Crested Flycatchers and Nashville Warbler.
MESA COUNTY:
---On August 7 on 10 ½ Road in Loma, Steve Patterson reported f-type Lark Bunting across road from Unitah Fishing area where fence angles away from road.
---On August 8 at Brewster's Ridge/Bar X Wash, Nic Korte reported Gray Flycatcher and juv Scott's Oriole.
---On August 10 at Grand Junction WA, Mike Henwood reported Solitary Sandpiper. On August 12 at Grand Junction WA, Eileen Cunningham reported 2 Solitary Sandpipers. On August 13 at Grand Junction WA, Mike Henwood reported juv Solitary Sandpiper and David Price and Ron Lambeth reported two Solitary Sandpipers. On August 14 at Grand Junction WA, Mike Henwood and Carol Ortenzio reported Solitary Sandpiper; Mark and Denise Vollmar reported 3 Solitary Sandpipers. On August 15, Mike Henwood and Eileen Cunningham reported 1 juv Solitary Sandpiper (cinnamomea) at Fuita SP and 2 Solitary Sandpipers (1 ad, 1juv) at Horsethief SWA.
---On August 12 at 8300 Ft above Collbran , Nic Korte reported flock of Purple Martins.
MONTROSE COUNTY:
---On August 16 at Airport Lake, Coen Dexter reported 2 Solitary Sandpipers, Gray Vireo, 2 Brewer's Sparrows and Black-throated Sparrow.
OTERO COUNTY:
---On August 18 at Cheraw Lake, Jim Rowoth and Kurt Mize reported Wilson's Snipe and Black Tern.
---On August 18 at Higbee Valley Road, Doug Faulker et al reported 4 Greater Roadrunners, 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers, 2 Curve-billed Thrashers, 2 Brewer's Sparrows, Rufous-crowned Sparrow.
PROWERS COUNTY:
---On August 10 Bryant Will found a juv SWALLOW-TAILED KITE in Lamar which was refound by Janeal Thompson, Tammy Gonzales, Jane Stulp, and Duane Nelson near Oak and 14th.
---On August 17 at Lamar Community College, Nick Komar et al reported 26 Mississippi Kites, Broad-winged Hawk, Bell's (eastern) Vireo, and 3 Northern Cardinals.
PUEBLO COUNTY:
---On August 14 at Pueblo Mountain Park, Monday Birders reported Williamson's Sapsucker and 3 Grace's Warblers. On August 17 at Pueblo Mountain Park, Ryan Adams reported Acorn Woodpecker, 2 Williamson's Sapsuckers and 3 Grace's Warblers. On August 18 at Pueblo Mountain Park, Nathan Pieplow et al reported 5 Williamson's Sapsuckers, Merlin, 3 Grace's Warblers.
---On August 16 at Pueblo Reservoir, Jay Withgott found 2 juv Little Gulls at South Shore Marina. The Little Gulls were also reported by Dale and Joel Adams at South Marina; Brandon Percival reported the
Little Gulls by picnic Shelter near South Shore Headquarters; Nick Komar and others reported the Little
Gulls at east end of Pueblo Reservoir.
---On August 17 at Lake Minnequa in Pueblo, Jay Withgott and Mark Holmgren reported 2 Mississippi Kites.
---On August 18 at Nepesta Road Marsh, Scott Somershoe reported hearing Black Rail.
RIO BLANCO COUNTY:
---On August 8 at Jensen SWA, Steve Patterson reported 2 Solitary Sandpipers and Brewer's Sparrow.
SAGUACHE COUNTY:
---On August 27 at Russell Lakes SWA, Riley Morris reported Northern Waterthrush
WELD COUNTY:
---On August 8 on Poudre River Trail, Kodak SWA, Ryan Graves reported a pair of Indigo Bunting.
---On August 13 at Loloff Reservoir, Gene Rutherford reported Solitary Sandpiper.
---On August 13 at Faber Reservoir, Cheri Phillips reported 30 Black-necked Stilts and Short-billed Dowitcher.
---On August 13 on CR 124 between CR 75 and CR 77, Tim Towles reported 12 American Pipits in a freshly plowed field.
---On August 13 on ponds on CR 124, Gary Lefko reported 3 Stilt Sandpipers and 2 Solitary Sandpipers.
---On August 13 at Woods Lake Gary Lefko reported Solitary Sandpiper.
Denver Field Ornithologists Field Trips:
The DFO Field Trip for Saturday, August 19 will be to First Creek at Denver Open Space led by Patrick O'Driscoll (patodrisk AT gmail.com; 303-885-6955). Directions: From East Denver take 56th Ave east toward Pena Blvd, First Creek Parking lot is just before Pena on your left (North). Or Take I-70 east to Pena Blvd. Drive north to 56th Ave Exit. Turn Left at the light and at the bottom of the off ramp, pass under the highway and turn right, almost immediately, into the First Creek parking lot.
Meet at 0630. If the creek is flowing, expect riparian=cottonwood prairie species. Will walk 1.5 miles of paved path along the creek upstream to Tower Road and back. Will also cover at leat one-half mile of Buckley Road, a closed pedestrian-bicycle strip along Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR's east boundary fence. Bring water snacks, sunscreen, hat and bug spray. NOTE: No restrooms yet at this location. Clostest facilities are on Tower Road (Green Valley Ranch King Soopers). Register online or contact leader.
The DFO Field Trip for Sunday, August 20 will be to Eastern Boulder County led by Ira and Tammy Sanders. This trip is full.
For more information on the field trips go to dfobirds.org.
Good Birding,
Joyce Takamine
Boulder
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