Date: August 29, 2018
Compiler: Joyce Takamine
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, August 29 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)
Cackling Goose (Summit, *Weld)
Trumpeter Swan (Archuleta)
Tundra Swan (Prowers)
Wood Duck (Gunnison)
Lesser Scaup (Kiowa)
Common Goldeneye (Chaffee)
Hooded Merganser (*Weld)
Horned Grebe (Washington)
Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Larimer)
Greater Roadrunner (Otero)
LESSER NIGHTHAWK (Kit Carson)
White-throated Swift (Kiowa)
Sandhill Crane (Custer, Delta)
Black-necked Stilt (Arapahoe, Weld)
Black-belllied Plover (Washington)
Long-billed Curlew (Washington)
Marbled Godwit (Kiowa, Washington)
RED KNOT (Washington)
Stilt Sandpiper (Washington, Weld)
White-rumped Sandpiper (Prowers)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Adams, Washington)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Washington, Weld)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Park)
Short-billed Dowitcher (Kiowa)
Solitary Sandpiper (El Paso, Gunnison, *Rio Grande, *San Miguel, Washington, Weld)
Willet (Mesa, Washington)
Red-necked Phalarope (Jefferson, Mesa)
Herring Gull (Boulder)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Kiowa, Larimer, Weld)
Caspian Tern (Washington, Weld)
Black Tern (Washington)
Common Tern (Washington)
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT (Kiowa)
American Bittern (Saguache)
Great Egret (Saguache, San Miguel)
Snowy Egret (Saguache)
Little Blue Heron (*Weld)
Cattle Egret (Saguache)
Green Heron (Denver)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Montezuma)
YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON (*Yuma)
WHITE IBIS (*Bent)
Glossy Ibis (Adams)
White-faced Ibis (Huerfano, Routt)
Mississippi Kite (*El Paso, Otero)
Lewis's Woodpecker (Archuleta)
Red-headed Woodpecker (Kiowa, *Logan, Otero, Pueblo,*Weld, *Yuma)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Custer)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (*El Paso, Otero, Pueblo)
Merlin (Larimer, Washington)
Olive-sided Flycatcher (El Paso, Pueblo)
YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER (Kit Carson)
Willow Flycatcher (Adams, El Paso, Kiowa, Larimer, Logan, Pueblo, *Weld)
Least Flycatcher (Kiowa, Pueblo)
Hammond's Flycatcher (Adams, *Boulder, El Paso)
Gray Flycatcher (Broomfield, El Paso, Larimer)
Dusky Flycatcher (Adams, *El Paso, Larimer, Otero, Pueblo)
Cordilleran Flycatcher (*El Paso, Logan, *Mesa)
Black Phoebe (*Mesa, Montrose)
Eastern Phoebe (Boulder, Custer, Kiowa, Otero)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Otero)
Ash-throated Flycatcher (*Logan)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Kiowa, Yuma)
Cassin's Kingbird (El Paso, Otero)
Eastern Kingbird (*Montrose, Otero, Pitkin)
Cassin's Vireo (*El Paso, Pueblo, *Rio Grande, *Weld)
Philadelphia Vireo (*Boulder)
Red-eyed Vireo (Adams, El Paso, Kiowa, La Plata, Larimer, Washington)
Pinyon Jay (Custer, Montrose)
Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay (Denver, El Paso, Larimer, Montrose, Otero)
Chihuahuan Raven (Otero)
Purple Martin (Routt, Saguache)
Violet-green Swallow (Weld)
Bushtit (Adams, El Paso, Huerfano, Montrose)
Marsh Wren (Arapahoe, Saguache)
Carolina Wren (Kiowa)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Custer, El Paso, Kiowa, Larimer, *Logan, Montrose, Pueblo, *San Juan, Washingto, *Weld)
Townsend's Solitaire (*Weld)
Curve-billed Thrasher (*El Paso, Otero, Pueblo)
Brown Thrasher (*El Paso, *Weld)
Sage Thrasher (*El Paso, Weld)
Red Crossbill (Custer)
Pine Siskin (Arapahoe)
Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Otero)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Chaffee, Custer, *El Paso, Kiowa, Otero, Saguache, Yuma)
Field Sparrow (Yuma)
Black-throated Sparrow (Otero)
Yellow-breasted Chat (Kiowa)
Baltimore Oriole (Prowers, *Yuma)
Northern Waterthrush (El Paso, La Plata)
Black-and-white Warbler (Mesa, Pueblo)
Prothonotary Warbler (Chaffee)
Orange-crowned Warbler Custer)
Nashville Warbler (Mesa)
Virginia's Warbler (Park, San Juan)
American Redstart (Adams)
Northern Parula (Clear Creek)
Blackburnian Warbler (Yuma)
Black-throated Gray Warbler (*Boulder, El Paso)
Townsend's Warbler (*Adams, Boulder, El Paso, Larimer, Pueblo)
CANADA WARBLER (El Paso)
Hepatic Tanager (Otero)
Summer Tanager (Otero)
Northern Cardinal (Yuma)
Indigo Bunting (Montrose, Otero)
Painted Bunting (Otero)
ADAMS COUNTY:
---On August 24 at Lowell Ponds (Clear Creek Valley Park), Tyler Wilson reported 9 Bushtits. On August 25 at Lowell Ponds (Clear Creek Valley Park),Tyler Wilson and Alicia Arnold reported Buff-breasted Sandpiper near path SE of parking area.
---On August 25 at Barr Lake banding station, Meredith McBurney reported Red-eyed Vireo, 3 Townsend's Warbler, and American Redstart. On August 26 at Barr Lake Banding Station Area, Steve Rash reported Glossy Ibis and Townsend's Warbler. On August 28 at Barr Lake Banding Station, Meredith McBurney banded Townsend's Warbler.
---On August 26 at Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR, Felice Lyons and Bez Bezuidenhout reported 5 Bushtits, Dusky Flycatcher, Willow Flycatcher, and Hammond's Flycatcher.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On August 23 at Littleton Cemetery, David Suddjian reported 4 Pine Siskin.
---On August 26 at Cherry Creek SW, Cynthia Madsen reported 2 Black-necked Stilt.
ARCHULETA COUNTY:
---On August 26 in Pagosa Springs, Ben Bailey reported Trumpeter Swan and 2 Lewis's Woodpeckers.
BENT COUNTY:
---On August 28 at Van's Marsh on CR JJ, David Suddjian and DFO field trip reported ad WHITE IBIS.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On August 25 at Boulder Reservoir Complex, Peter Burke reported Herring Gull.
---On August 25 at Golden Ponds Park and NA, Longmont, Luke Pheneger reported 3 Eastern Phoebe, Townsend's Warbler.
---On August 28 at Green Mountain Cemetery, Bill Kaempfer reported Philadelphia Vireo.
---On August 28 at Pleasant View Marsh, Ernest Crvich reported Black-throated Gray Warbler and Hammond's Flycatcher.
BROOMFIELD COUNTY:
---On August 24 at W 134th Place (Neighborhood), Matt Hofeditz reported Gray Flycatcher.
CHAFFEE COUNTY:
---On August 23 at 7410 CR 150 in Salida, Diane Roberts reported 3 Clay-colored Sparrows.
---On August 23 at Sands Lake SWA, Rebecca Laroche and DFO field trip reported Common Goldeneye and Prothonotary Warbler. On August 26 at Sands Lake SWA, Sally Waterhouse reported Common Goldeneye.
CLEAR CREEK COUNTY:
---On August 26 at Empire Bard Creek Wetland, Bruce Snyder reported Northern Parula.
CUSTER COUNTY:
---On August 24 at DeWeese Reservoir, David Tonnessen reported Williamson's Sapsucker, Eastern Phoebe, 45 Pinyon Jay, 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 2 Red Crossbills, Clay-colored Sparrow, Orange-crowned (Gray-headed) Warbler. On August 27 at DeWeese Reservoir, John Drummond, John Bruder, and Lisa Edwards reported Sandhill Crane, Williamson Sapsucker, Hammond's Flycatcher, 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Northern Waterthush, and Townsend's Solitaire.
DELTA COUNTY:
---On August 27 at Hotchkiss Hay Field, Robin Nickoloff reported pair of Sandhill Cranes.
DENVER COUNTY:
---On August 26 at First Creek at DEN OS, John Breitsch reported Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay.
EL PASO COUNTY:
---On August 24 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown 2 ad Northern Waterthrush. On August 25 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown reported Mississippi Kite. On August 27 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown banded 2 Northern Waterthrush.
---On August 23 at Chico Basin Ranch, John Drummond reported Willow Flycatcher, Gray Flycatcher, Dusky Flycatcher, and Curve-billed Thrasher. On August 24 at Chico Basin Ranch, Alan Ketcham reported Willow Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Cassin's Vireo, Curve-billed Thrasher. On August 26 at Chico Basin Ranch, Jim Merritt and David Tonnessen reported 3 Ladder-backed Woodpeckers, Olive-sided Woodpecker, Least Flycatcher, Hammond's Flycatcher, 2 Dusky Flycatchers, Cassin's Vireo, Red-eyed Vireo, 2 Curve-billed Thrashers, 6 Brown Thrashers, 5 Sage Thrashers, and f CANADA WARBLER near banding building. On August 28 at Chico Basin Ranch, Jim Merritt reported Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Dusky Flycatcher, Cordilleran Flycatcher, 2 Curve-billed Thrashers, 3 Brown Thrashers, 2 Sage Thrashers, and 2 Clay-colored Sparrows.
---On August 24 at Sinton Pond OS, David Tonnessen reported 4 Bushtits.
---On August 24 Birdsall Road, Terence Berger reported 2 Solitary Sandpiper and Curve-billed Thrasher.
---On August 25 at Hanover Fire Station, Mel and Jeanne Goff reported Curve-billed Thrasher and Sage Thrasher.
---On August 25 at Hanover Road, Gloria Nikolai reported 2 Curve-billed Thrashers an d 2 Clay-colored Sparrow.
---On August 26 at Kettle Lakes, David Tonnessen reported Cassin's Kingbird, 5 Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, 4 Mountain Chickadee, 14 Bushtit, 7 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and Sage Thrasher.
---On August 28 at Fountain Creek Regional Park, Tanja Britton reported Mississippi Kite and Cassin's Vireo.
GUNNISON COUNTY:
---On August 23 at McCabes Lane Wetland, Ben Hulsey reported 2 Wood Ducks, 2 Solitary Sandpipers.
HUERFANO COUNTY:
---On August 24 at Lathrop SP Lake Oehm, Brent Thompson reported 14 White-faced Ibis, and 2 Bushstit.
JEFFERSON COUNTY:
---On August 23 at Bear Creek Lake Park, Reed Gorner reported 2 Red-necked Phalarope.
KIOWA COUNTY:
---On August 25 at Neenoshe Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Lesser Scaup, NEOTROPIC CORMORANT ad, se pond, Lesser Black-backed Gull, 6 Red-headed Woodpeckers, Willow Flycatcher.
---On August 25 at Upper Queens/Neeshkah Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Eastern Phoebe, Red-eyed Vireo, Yellow-breasted Chat, Carolina Wren, 2 Marbled Godwit, Short-billed Dowitcher, red-headed Woodpecker, 3 Least Flycatcher, 2 Great Crested Flycatcher, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 7 Clay-colored Sparrows.
KIT CARSON COUNTY:
---On August 23 at Flagler Reservoir SWA below dam, Glenn Walbek reported ad YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. ON August 26 at Flagler Reservoir SWA, Steve Rash reported 8 LESSER NIGHTHAWKS.
LA PLATA COUNTY:
---On August 24 Animas River Huck Finn Pond and Hatchery Area, Riley Morris reported Red-eyed Vireo. On August 26 on Animas River Huck Finn Ponds and Hatchery Area, Jim Beatty reported Red-eyed Vireo and Northern Waterthrush.
---On August 24 at Animas River – E 32nd St vicinity, Durango, Jim Beatty reported Northern Waterthrush.
LARIMER COUNTY:
---On August 24 at Bobcat Ridge NA, Denise Bretting reported 3 Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, 5 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and Gray Flycatcher.
---On August 24 at Arapahoe Bend NA Rigden Reservoir (Strauss Cabin Lake), David Wade reported Red-eyed Vireo. On August 25 at Arapahoe Bend NA, Nick Komar and Jay Breidt reported Red-eyed Vireo.
---On August 25 at Kechter Pit wetland, Nick Komar reported Caspian Tern.
---On August 26 at Environmental Learning Center, Jay Breidt reported Gray Flycatcher and 2 Townsend's Warblers; Nick Komar and Danny Montalvo reported Merlin and Townsend's Warbler.
---On August 26 at Wellington SWA—Cobb Lake Unit, Andy Bankert and Caroline Olson reported Lesser Black-backed Gull, Willow Flycatcher, Dusky Flycatcher, and Townsend's Warbler.
---On August 27 at Douglas Reservoir, Rob Sparks reported Yellow-billed Cuckoo.
LOGAN COUNTY:
---On August 25 at Prewitt Reservoir, Holden Maxfield, Jack and Ryan Bushong reported 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers, Willow Flycatchers, Cordilleran Flycatcher, and 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers. On August 28 at Prewitt Reservoir, Charlie Chase and David Blue reported juv Red-headed Woodpecker, Ash-throated Flycatcher and 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers.
MESA COUNTY:
---On August 28 at Horsethief Canyon SWA, Mike Henwood and David Price reported Cordilleran Flycatcher and 2 Black Phoebe.
---On August 27 at Grand Junction Wildlife Area, Mike Henwood reported Black Phoebe, Black-and-white Warbler and Nashville Warbler.
---On August 27 at Green Heron Pond, Glenn Parson Red-necked Phalarope, Black Phoebe, and Willet.
MONTROSE COUNTY:
---On August 25 on Old Hwy 90 through Silver Hawk Ranch, Coen Dexter and Brenda Wright reported Black Phoebe, 41 Pinyon Jay, 11 Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, 47 Bushtit, 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and Indigo Bunting.
---On August 28 at Nucla Ave Five, Coen Dexter and Brenda Wright reported Eastern Kingbird.
OTERO COUNTY:
---On August 23 at Higbee Valley Road (CR 804), Tyler Stewart reported Greater Roadrunner, 6 Red-headed Woodpecker, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Vermilion Flycatchers (m, f, 1-2 juv), 2 Chihuahuan Ravens, Curve-billed Thrasher, Black-throated Sparrow, 2 Rufous-crowned Sparrows. On August 25 at Higbee Valley Road (CR 804), Dean Shoup reported 5 Red-headed Woodpeckers, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, 2 Eastern Phoebe, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, Chihuahuan Raven, Curve-billed Thrasher, 2 Rufous-crowned Sparrow, pair of Summer Tanagers. On August 28 at Higbee Valley Road (CR 804), David Suddjian and DFO field trip reported 2 Greater Roadrunner, 5 Red-headed Woodpecker (4 ad, 1 juv), Ladder-backed Woodpecker, 3 Vermilion Flycatcher (1 ad m, 2 juv), 2 Eastern Bluebird.
PARK COUNTY:
---On August 23 on 13959 – 14144 S Wandcrest Drive in Pine, Diane Roberts reported Virginia's Warbler.
---On August 26 at Antero Reservoir, Alan Versaw reported Semipalmated Sandpiper.
PITKIN COUNTY:
---On August 23 at Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, Catherine Hagen reported Eastern Kingbird.
PROWERS COUNTY:
---On August 27 in Lamar on S 13th St., Dorothy Russell reported m Baltimore Oriole.
---On August 23 at Arkansas River and US 50 crossing, Jane Stulp reported Tundra Swan and White-rumped Sandpiper.
PUEBLO COUNTY:
---On August 23 at Chico Basin Ranch, John Drummond reported 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Olive-sided Flycatcher, Willow Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Dusky Flycatcher, Cassin's Vireo, 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, Black-and-white Warbler (ad f), Townsend's Warbler (ad m).
RIO GRANDE COUNTY:
---On August 28 at Monte Vista NWR 8S Turnout Grove, John Rawinski reported Cassin's Vireo.
---On August 28 at Home Lake, John Rawinski reported 4 Solitary Sandpipers.
ROUTT COUNTY:
---On August 24 at 4559 – 4921 Hwy 40, Michael San Miguel reported 2 White-faced Ibis.
---On August 25 at CR 14 at Sydney Park Horse Barn, Tom Litteral reported 7-8 Purple Martins.
SAGUACHE COUNTY:
---On August 24 Russell Lakes SWA, Rachel Laroche and DFO field trip reported 3 American Bittern, 2 Great Egret, 3 Snowy Egret, 7 Cattle egret, Purple Martin, 7 Marsh Wren, and 4 Clay-colored Sparrow.
SAN JUAN COUNTY:
---On August 23 in Silverton, Lori Nixon reported Virginia's Warbler.
---On August 28 in Silverton, Lori Nixon reported 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers.
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY:
---On August 23 at Trout Lake, George Steele reported Great Egret.
---On August 27 on CR 43Z south farm pond S Side of Norwood, Eric Hynes reported Solitary Sandpiper and Snowy Egret.
---On August 28 at Snyder's Pond, George Steele reported 4 Solitary Sandpipers.
SUMMIT COUNTY:
---On August 26 Lake Dillon Soda Creek Inlet, Bea Weaver reported Cackling Goose.
WASHINGTON COUNTY:
---On August 23 at Prewitt Reservoir, John Vanderpoel reported Long-billed Curlew, Marbled Godwit, Stilt Sandpiper, Black Tern, Common Tern and Merlin; Chuck Hundertmark reported Long-billed Curlew and 3 Pectoral Sandpipers. On August 25 at Prewitt Reservoir, Jonell Balais, Bruce Cyganowski, Norm Lewis, Holden Maxfield, Jack and Ryan Bushong reported Horned Grebe, Black-bellied Plover, Long-billed Curlew, Marbled Godwit, Red Knot, 6 Pectoral Sandpipers, Caspian Tern, Red-eyed Vireo, 6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. On August 26 at Prewitt Reservoir, Joey Kellner and his DFO Field Trip and Steve Rash, reported Long-billed Curlew, Red Knot, 2 Stilt Sandpipers, 14 Pectoral Sandpipers, Herring Gull, and 48 Black Tern. On August 27 at Prewitt Reservoir Inlet Canal, Susan Pellegrini reported Long-billed Curlew, 2 Marbled Godwit, 2 Stilt Sandpiper, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, 10 Pectoral Sandpipers, Solitary Sandpiper and 3 Willet.
WELD COUNTY:
---On August 26 at CR 74 and CR 61 pond, Gary Lefko reported Caspian Tern.
---On August 26 at CR 41 and CR 102, Gark Lefko reported Sage Thrasher.
---On August 27 at Baxter Lake, Steve Mlodinow reported 7 Black-necked Stilt, Stilt Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, Violet-green Swallow.
---On August 28 at Lower Latham Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported ad Little Blue Heron.
---On August 28 at Firestone Gravel Pits (view from road), Steve Mlodinow reported 2 Cackling Geese and 3 Hooded Mergansers.
---On August 28 at Crow Valley Campground, Dave Leatherman reported imm Red-headed Woodpecker, 3 Willow Flycathcers, Cassin's Vireo, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Townsend's Solitaire, and Brown Thrasher.
YUMA COUNTY:
---On August 24 at Stalker Lake w of Wray, Joey Kellner and Kathy Mihm Dunning reported 2 YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS, 3 Red-headed Woodpecker, Great Crested Flycatcher, Clay-colored Sparrow, Field Sparrow, 3 Northern Cardinal. On August 25 at Stalker Lake SWA, Gary Witt reported 2 YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERONS, Red-headed Woodpecker and 2 Northern Cardinal. On August 26 at Stalker Lake SWA, Steve Rash reported YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON and Blackburnian Warbler. On August 28 at Stalker Lake SWA, Tyler Wilson reported 3 YELLOW-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON, 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers, and Baltimore Oriole.
DFO Field Trips
See DFO website for more information:
Southeastern Colorado
Monday, August 27 – Tuesday August 28
7:00 AM – 12:07 PM
David Suddjian (dsuddjian AT
gmail.com; 831-713-8659)
This trip is FULL.
Ken Caryl Valley Area
Saturday, September 1
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
David Suddjian (dsuddjian AT
gmail.com; 831-713-8659)
This Trip is FULL
Stalker Lake State Wildlife Area
Saturday, September 1
6:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Gregg Goodrich (GreggGoodrich AT
gmail.com; 303-655-9135)
Good Birding,
Joyce Takamine
Boulder
