Date: August 20, 2018
Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Monday, August 20 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)
Greater White-fronted Goose (*Larimer)
Cackling Goose (Larimer)
Mallard (Mexican) (Archuleta)
Green-winged Teal (Lincoln)
Redhead (Fremont)
Hooded Merganser (*Adams, Arapahoe)
Common Merganser (*Adams)
Chukar (Larimer)
White-winged Dove (*El Paso, Montezuma)
Greater Roadrunner (*Otero)
White-throated Swift (Kiowa)
Virginia Rail (Montezuma)
Sora (Montezuma)
Sandhill Crane (Montezuma)
Piping Plover (*Jackson)
Upland Sandpiper (Kiowa)
Marbled Godwit (Larimer)
Stilt Sandpiper (*Jackson)
Dunlin (*Jackson)
Baird's Sandpiper (Adams, Montrose)
Pectoral Sandpiper (*Jackson)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (*Jackson)
Long-billed Dowitcher (Weld)
Solitary Sandpiper (Adams, La Plata, Larimer, Mesa, Pueblo, Weld)
Lesser Yellowlegs (Adams, Weld)
Greater Yellowlegs (Montrose, Weld)
Wilson's Phalarope (San Miguel)
Mew Gull (*Arapahoe)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Kiowa)
Caspian Tern (*Jackson, *Larimer)
Black Tern (*Adams, Kiowa, Larimer)
Common Tern (*Larimer)
Great Egret (Jackson)
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT (Kiowa)
Great Egret (*Jackson)
TRICOLORED HERON (Arapahoe, Prowers)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Montezuma)
Mississippi Kite (El Paso, Otero)
Northern Goshawk (*El Paso)
ZONE-TAILED HAWK (Otero)
Red-headed Woodpecker (*Logan, *Otero, Pueblo)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (*Logan)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Teller)
Red-naped Sapsucker (Teller)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (*Otero, Pueblo)
American Three-toed Woodpecker (Archuleta, *El Paso)
Merlin (*Adams, Jefferson)
Willow Flycatcher (La Plata)
Least Flycatcher (*Boulder, Pueblo)
Gray Flycatcher (La Plata, Mesa, Pitkin, Pueblo, Teller)
Dusky Flycatcher (La Plata, Pueblo)
Black Phoebe (La Plata, Mesa, Ouray)
Eastern Phoebe (*Boulder, Jefferson, Otero, Pueblo)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Otero)
Cassin's Kingbird (Otero)
Eastern Kingbird (Montrose, *Ouray)
Cassin's Vireo (Douglas, *El Paso, Pueblo)
Plumbeous Vireo Adams)
Red-eyed Vireo (El Paso)
Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay (Arapahoe)
Chihuahuan Raven (Otero)
Tree Swallow (Kiowa)
Bushtit (Adams,Larimer, Otero)
Marsh Wren (Arapahoe, El Paso, Larimer)
Carolina Wren (Arapahoe)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (El Paso, Mesa, Otero)
Eastern Bluebird (*Otero)
Curve-billed Thrasher (*El Paso, *Otero, Pueblo)
Northern Mockingbird (Gunnison, *Moffat)
McCown's Longspur (*Jackson)
Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Otero)
Cassin's Sparrow (Arapahoe)
Clay-colored Sparrow (El Paso, Otero, Pueblo)
Black-throated Sparrow (*Otero)
Lark Bunting (*Alamosa, Grand, *Jackson, Lake, *Routt, Teller)
EASTERN MEADOWLARK (*Logan)
Bullock's Oriole (Teller)
Northern Waterthrush (*El Paso, Gunnison, *Jackson, La Plata, Mesa, Moffat, Ouray, Pueblo)
Black-and-white Warbler (*Boulder, *Mesa)
Nashville Warbler (La Plata)
Townsend's Warbler (La Plata, *Moffat)
Hepatic Tanager (Otero)
Summer Tanager (Otero, San Juan)
Northern Cardinal (*Logan)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Mesa)
Indigo Bunting (El Paso, Otero)
Painted Bunting (Otero)
Dickcissel (*Logan)
ADAMS COUNTY:
---On August 13 at Sage Creek Park, Adam Veseley reported 3 Bushtit.
---On August 14 at Barr Lake SP, Tuesday Birders reported Plumbeous Vireo. On August 19 at Barr Lake SP, Holden Maxfield reported 2 f-type Hooded Mergansers; at the boat ramp, Adam Veseley, Riley and Heather Morris reported 8 f-type Common Mergansers and Black Tern.
---On August 17 at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Candice Johnson reported 3 Baird's Sandpipers, 2 Solitary Sandpipers, 3 Lesser Yellowlegs, and 6 Bushtits near intersection of Prairied and Woodland Trails N of Havana Ponds. On August 18 at Rocky Mountain Arsenal NWR, Bez Bezuidenhout reported Merlin.
ALAMOSA COUNTY:
---On August 19 at Twomile Road, Jeff Guy reported Lark Bunting.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On August 16 at South Platte Park, Cynthia Kristensen, reported 4 Hooded Mergansers on South Platte Reservoir.
---On August 13 at Cherry Creek Trail—East Arapahoe Rd to E Lakeview Rd, Ben Sampson reported 5 Cassin's Sparrows.
---On August 13 at Cherry Creek SP Marina and Dam Trail, Ben Sampson reported young Mew Gull which did not appear well. On August 16 at Cherry Creek SP Marina and Dam Trail, Gwen Moore reported imm Mew Gull. On August 17 at Cherry Creek SP Marina and Dam Trail, Diane Roberts reported imm Mew Gull. On August 18 at Cherry Creek SP Marina and Dam Trail, Bez Bezuidenhout and Steve Rash reported imm Mew Gull. On August 19 at Cherry Creek SP Marina and Dam Trail, Dean Shoup, Mark Chavez, Roger Massey, Cynthia Madsen and David Hill reported imm Mew Gull.
---On August 16 at Cherry Creek SP Shop Creek to Wetland Loop, Ajit Antony reported 2 Carolina Wren.
---On August 18 at Cherry Creek SP, Mario Montealagre reported TRICOLORED HERON and Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay.
---On August 18 at Parker Jordan Centennial OS, Cynthia Madsen and David Hill and DFO field trip reported Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay.
ARCHULETA COUNTY:
---On August 14 on San Juan River Walk in Pagosa Springs, Lindell Dillon reported 2 Mexican Ducks and American Three-toed Woodpecker.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On August 19 at Coal Creek Canyon OS, Diane Roberts reported Least Flycatcher; Diane Roberts and Sandra Blair reported Black-and-white Warbler and Eastern Phoebe.
DOUGLAS COUNTY/JEFFERSON COUNTY (Chatfield SP)
---On August 13 at Castlewood Canyon SP, Karen Metz reported 2 Cassin's Vireo.
EL PASO COUNTY:
---On August 13 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown banded a Northern Waterthrush. On August 15 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown banded Cassin's Vireo, Red-eye Vireo, Clay-colored Sparrow, and Northern Waterthrush. On August 16 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown banded 2 Northern Waterthrush. On August 18 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown banded another Northern Waterthrush. On August 19 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown band another Northern Waterthrush and observed a White-winged Dove.
---On August 13 at Adams Open Space, Adam Veseley reported Mississippi Kite.
---On August 13 at 70 Otowi Dr, Colorado Springs, Julia Wittman reported 6 Mississippi Kites.
---On August 15 at Pulpit Rock Park, Alan Versaw reported Cassin's Vireo, 9 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 2 Indigo Bunting.
---On August 16 at Cross Creek Regional Park, Terence Berger reported Marsh Wren.
---On August 16 at Birdsall Road, Terence Berger reported Curve-billed Thrasher.
---On August 17 at 1725 River Dr, Fountain, David Tonnessen reported Mississippi Kite.
---On August 18 at Venetucci Elementary School in Widefield, Kathy Bearden reported 4 Mississippi Kites.
---On August 19 at Chico Basin Ranch Bell Grove, Matt Rodgers reported 2 Curve-billed Thrashers.
---On August 19 on Mt Herman Trail, Chris Hiatt reported Northern Goshawk and American Three-toed Woodpecker.
---On August 19 at Sinton Pond OS, David Tonnessen reported Cassin's Vireo.
FREMONT COUNTY:
---On August 18 at Brush Hollow Reservoir, Hay Hawklee reported Redhead.
GRAND COUNTY:
---On August 16 at North Inlet Trail to Cascade Falls, Rebecca Laroche reported molting male Lark Bunting.
GUNNISON COUNTY:
---On August 15 at Harman Rocks, Alex Sundvall and Liz H reported 2 Northern Mockingbird.
---On August 17 at Roaring Judy Fish Hatchery, Ben Halsey reported Northern Waterthrush.
JACKSON COUNTY:
---On August 16 at Walden Reservoir SE side, Henrey Deese reported Great Egret.
---On August 16 at Walden Reservoir, Henrey Deese reported 4 Lark Bunting. On August 19 at Walden Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Caspian Tern, Stilt Sandpiper, Great Egret, and 4 Lark Bunting.
---On August 16 at Arapaho NWR Auto Loop, Henrey Deese reported Lark Bunting. On August 19 at Arapahoe NWR Auto Loop, Steve Mlodinow reported Dunlin, 2 Stilt Sandpipers, 5 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 7 Pectoral Sandpipers and Lark Bunting.
---On August 19 at Rand Road Wetland, Steve Mlodinow reported McCown's Longspur.
---On August 19 at 18 Island Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Piping Plover, Semipalmated Sandpiper.
---On August 19 in Rand (town), Steve Mlodinow reported 6 Northern Waterthrush.
JEFFERSON COUNTY:
---On August 13 at Chatfield SP Audubon Center, James Bozeman reported Eastern Phobe.
---On August 14 at Bear Creek Lake Park Pelican Point, Myron Gerhard and Frank Farrell reported Merlin.
---On August 19 at Cold Creek OS, Cynthia Kristensen reported 2 Eastern Phobe.
KIOWA COUNTY:
---On August 4, Steve Mlodinow reported 2 NEOTROPICAL CORMORANTS (one adult, one subadult) at the pond near the southeast corner of Neenoshee reservoir. On August 9, John Drummond and three others reported the birds at the same location, with the adult feeding the immature bird. On August 11 at SE Corner of Neenoshee Reservoir, Gwen Moore and Dean Shoup reported NEOTROPIC CORMORANT; Logan Kahle reported NEOTROPIC CORMORANT. On August 14 at Neenoshe Reservoir, SE Corner, David Tonnessen reported NEOTROPIC CORMORANT.
---On August 14 at Neegronda Reservoir, Nathan Pieplow reported 2 Upland Sandpipers (heard), 11 Black Tern, Tree Swallow, and Dickcissel.
---On August 13 at Neenoshe Reservoir, SE Cornewr, Nathan Pieplow reported 3 NEOTROPIC CORMORANTS.
---On August 13 at Neeskah Reservoir, Nathan Pipelow reported Lesser Black-backed Gull.
LAKE COUNTY:
---On August 15 at 1837 – 1953 Hwy 24 in Leadville, Christian Hagenlocher reported m Lark Bunting.
LA PLATA COUNTY:
---On August 14 at Animas River – US 160 High Bridge to River Road, Jim Beatty reported Nashville Warbler.
---On August 18 at Pastorius Reservoir, Josh Lefever reported Solitary Sandpiper, Willow Flycatacher, Gray Flycatcher, Dusky Flycatcher, Black Phoebe, 4 Townsend's Warbler (2 ad m, 1 imm m, 1 f).
---On August 18 on Animas River –Huck Finn Pond and Hatchery area, Ryan Votta reported Northern Waterthrush.
LARIMER COUNTY:
---On August 13 at Timnath Reservoir, Joe Mammoser reported 1 imm Black Tern; Nick Komar and Nick Komar Jr reported Greater White-fronted Goose and Cackling Goose. On August 14 at Timnath Reservoir, Dave Leatherman reported Caspian Tern. On August 17 at Timnath Reservoir, Nick Komar reported Marbled Godwit, 2 Solitary Sandpipers, and 2 Caspian Terns. On August 18 at Timnath Reservoir, Andy Bankert and Caroline Olson reported Greater White-fronted Goose, Cackling Goose, and 4 Caspian Terns; Nick Komar and Georgia Doyle reported 4 Caspian Terns. On August 19 at Timnath Reservoir, Nick Komar, Nick jr, and Walter Wehtje reported Greater White-fronted Goose, 2 Common Tern, and Caspian Tern.
---On August 17 at Dixon Reservoir, Brad Biggerstaff reported Bushtits including a partially black-eared form.
---On August 17 at Wellington SWA – Cobb Lake Unit, Andy Bankert and Caroline Olson reported Chukar and Marsh Wren.
LINCOLN COUNTY:
---ON August 14 at Evilsizer Lake, Nathan Pieplow reported 4 Green-winged Teal.
LOGAN COUNTY:
---On August 19 at Tamarack Ranch SWA, Chuck Hundertmark and DFO field trip reported 3 EASTERN MEADOWLARK, 10 Red-headed Woodpeckers, Red-bellied Woodpecker, 3 Northern Cardinals, and 4 Dickcissel.
MESA COUNTY:
---On August 13 at Grand Junction WA, Mike Henwood and Kathleen McGinley reported Northern Waterthrush. On August 15 at Grand Junction WA, Carol Ortenzio reported Blue-gray Gnatcatcher and Rose-breasted Grosbeak.
---On August 13 at Horsethief Canyon SWA, Carol Ortenzio reported 3 Solitary Sandpipers, Gray Flycatcher, and Black Phoebe.
---On August 18 at Grand Junction WA Gunnison River Trail, David Price reported Black-and-white Warbler. On August 19 at Grand Junction WA, Drew Kelley reported Black-and-white Warbler.
MOFFAT COUNTY:
---On August 15 at Loudy-Simpson Park at washed out footbridge, Forrest Luke reported Northern Waterthrush. On August 19 at Loudy-Simpson Nature Trail, Jan Leonard reported Northern Mockingbird and Townsend's Warbler.
MONTROSE COUNTY:
---On August 15 at Redvale Pond, Coen Dexter and Brenda Wright reported 3 Baird's Sandpipers and Greater Yellowlegs.
---On August 18 at Elda's Coen Dexter and Brenda Wright reported Eastern Kingbird.
MONTEZUMA COUNTY:
---On August 11 in Cortez on power line at South Second and Market, Dennis Garrison reported White-winged Dove.
---On August 15 at Totten Reservoir, Erik Hendrickson reported 2 Sandhill Cranes. On August 16 at Totten Reservoir, Erik Hendrickson reported 2 Black-crowned Night-Heron, Viriginia Rail, and Sora.
OTERO COUNTY
---On August 4, Kathy Mihm-Dunning reported 2 ZONE-TAILED HAWKS (1 adult and 1 second year) on Higbee Road, near the location where Vogel Canyon comes in to the road. There is a bridge at this location which is fairly well marked on Google maps. The birds were last seen heading north with some Turkey Vultures. On August 11 at Higbee Valley Road (CR 804), Nick Moore reported 12 Mississippi Kites, imm Zone-tailed Hawk, 2 Greater Roadrunners, 10 Red-headed Woodpeckers, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, 3 Eastern Phoebe, Cassin's Kingbird, Chihuahuan Raven, 4 Black-throated Sparrows, 6 Rufous-crowned Sparrows, Hepatic Tanager, and 3 Painted Bunting. On August 11 at Higbee Valley Road (CR 804), Steve Mlodinow and Dave Ely reported 2nd year Zone-tailed Hawk and 6 White-throated Swifts.
On August 12 at Higbee Valley Road (CR 804), Art Hudak, Gwen Moore, Dean Shoup, Kevin Ash, Glenn Walbek, Steve Larson, and John Drummond reported ZONE-TAILED HAWK, 2 Greater Roadrunner, 10 Red-headed Woodpeckers, Ladderback Woodpecker, 6 Chihuahuan Ravens, Black-throated Sparrow, Rufous-crowned Sparrow, and 4 Painted Buntings (1 ad m, 1 ad f, 2 imm). On August 13 at Higbee Vally Road (CR 804), Nathan Pieplow, Tyler Stewart, Norm Erthal, John Drummond, Jeannie Mitchell, Jacqueline Heyda, and Roger Massey reported ZONE-TAILED HAWK, Greater Roadrunner, 3 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 4 Ladder-backed Woodpecker, 10 Red-headed Woodpecker, 4 Mississippi Kites, Rufous-crowned Sparrow, 4 Painted Bunting, Eastern Phoebe, 6 Black-throated Sparrow, Cassin's Kingbird, Chihuahuan Rave, Curve-billed Thrasher, and Hepatic Tanager. On August 14 at Higbee Valle Road (CR 804), Brandon Percival reported Painted Buntings (ad m, ad f, imm), f Summer Tanager, 2 Greater Roadrunner, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Mississippi Kites; David Tonnessen and Alec Hopping reported Vermilion Flycatcher, Black-throated Sparrows and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. On August 15 at Higbee Valley Road (CR 804), Beth and Cole Sage reported 3 Greater Roadrunners, 6 Mississippi Kites, 6 Red-headed Woodpeckers, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Cassin's Kingbird, Chihuahuan Raven, Black-throated Sparrow, 4 Painted Bunting, 4 Eastern Bluebird. On August 16 at Higbee Valley Road (CR 804), Jane Stulp reported Greater Roadrunner, 2 Mississippi Kites, 13 Red-headed Woodpecker, 4 Ladder-backed Woodpecker, 3 Eastern Phoebe, Cassin's Kingbird, 6 Chihuahuan Raven, 4 Bushtit, 3 Eastern Bluebirds, 4 Curve-billed Thrashers, Clay-colored Sparrow, 5 Black-throated Sparrows, 3 Rufous-crowned Sparrows, 2 Summer Tanager, Indigo Bunting. On August 19 at Higbee Valley Road (CR 804), Chris Gilbert reported 2 Eastern Bluebirds, 4 Black-throated Sparrows, 3 Greater Roadrunners, 5 Red-headed Woodpecker, 4 Ladder-backed Woodpeckers, and 2 Curve-billed Thrashers.
---On August 14 at Villegreen Road and Besline Draw, Alex Hopping reported 2 Bushtit.
---On August 14 at Higbee Cemetery, David Tonnessen reported Greater Roadrunner, Cassin's Kingbird, Curve-billed Thrasher.
OURAY COUNTY:
---On August 17 at Billy Creek SWA, Sandy Beranich reported Black Phoebe.
---On August 15 outside Ouray on back road behind Orvis Hot Springs, Mary Harris reported Northern Waterthrush.
---On August 19 on Uncompahgre River at Buckhorn Rd, Betty Fenton reported 3 Eastern Kingbirds.
PITKIN COUNTY:
---On August 13 at Northstar Preserve, East Aspen Trail, Catherine Hagen and George Quittner reported Gray Flycatcher.
PROWERS COUNTY:
---On August 13 at Thurston Reservoir, Nathan Pieplow reported TRICOLORED HERON.
PUEBLO COUNTY:
---On August 17 at Chico Basin Ranch, David Tonnessen reported Solitary Sandpiper, 3 Red-headed Woodpeckers, 4 Ladder-backed Woodpeckers, 2 Least Flycatcher, Gray Flycatcher, Dusky Flycatcher, Eastern Phoebe, Cassin's Vireo, 5 Curve-billed Thrashers, Clay-colored Sparrow, 2 Northern Waterthrush.
ROUTT COUNTY:
---On August 19 at 41850 – 42156 CR 44A in Steamboat Springs, Katie Weeks reported 2 Lark Bunting.
SAN JUAN COUNTY:
---On August 16 in Silverton, Lori Nixon reported m Summer Tanager.
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY:
---On August 13 at Miramonte Reservoir, Coen Dexter and Brenda Wright reported Wilson's Phalarope.
TELLER COUNTY:
---On August 15 at Florissant Fossil Beds NM, Bruce Deuel reported m Williamson's Sapsujcker, Gray Flycatcher and f Lark Bunting.
WELD COUNTY:
---On August 12 at Galeton marsh at CR 74 and CR 61, Gary Lefko reported Pectoral Sandpiper.
---On August 17 at Baxter Lake, Steve Mlodinow reported 2 Solitary Sandpipers, Greater Yellowlegs, 2 Lesser Yellowlegs, and Long-billed Dowitcher.
TELLER COUNTY:
---On August 11 at Manitou Lake Pullout, Tyler Stewart reported pair of Williamson's Sapsucker, 3 Red-naped Sapsucker (1f, 2 juv), f Bullock's Oriole.
DFO Field Trips
See DFO website for more information:
Northeastern Colorado
Saturday & Sunday, August 18-19
7:00AM (18th)-5:30PM (19th)
Chuck Hundertmark and Paul Slingsby (chunde...@gmail.com, ph 303-604-0531 or pasli...@comcast.net, or ph 720-347-5169)
Plainview Road/Wondervu/and parts of Gilpin County
Sunday August 19
7:30AM-3:00PM
This trip is full, a waitlist is available.
Colleen Nunn & Mary Fran O'Connor (cnun...@gmail.com, ph 303-520-7496 or mfr...@comcast.net, ph 303-770-7740)
Colorado Eastern Prairie
Monday, August 20
4:30 AM – 7:00 PM
David Suddjian (dsuddjian AT gmail.com; 831-713-8659)
Reynolds Park and Pine Valley Ranch (Jefferson)
Tuesday, August 21
7:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Mark Amershek (mamershek AT msn.com; 303-329-8646)
Washington County
Wednesday, August 22
5:00 AM – 7:00 PM
David Suddjian (dsuddjian AT gmail.com; 831-713-8659)
San Luis Valley Explorations: The Northern Valley
Thursday, August 23 – Friday, August 24
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Good Birding,
Joyce Takamine
Boulder
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