Date: August 21, 2018
Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Tuesday, August 21 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)
Northern Pintail (*Moramonte)
Redhead (Fremont)
Barrow's Goldeneye (*Clear Creek)
Hooded Merganser (Adams, *Arapahoe)
Common Merganser (*)
Chukar (Larimer)
White-winged Dove (El Paso)
Greater Roadrunner (*Otero)
White-throated Swift (Kiowa)
Virginia Rail (Montezuma)
Sora (Montezuma)
Sandhill Crane (Montezuma, *Montrose)
Semipalmated Plover (*Kiowa)
Piping Plover (Jackson)
Upland Sandpiper (*Kiowa)
Long-billed Curlew (*Kiowa)
Marbled Godwit (Larimer)
Stilt Sandpiper (Jackson)
Dunlin (Jackson)
Baird's Sandpiper (Adams, Montrose, *San Miguel)
Pectoral Sandpiper (Jackson)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Jackson)
Long-billed Dowitcher (Weld)
Solitary Sandpiper (Adams, La Plata, Larimer, Pueblo, Weld)
Lesser Yellowlegs (Adams, Weld)
Greater Yellowlegs (*Montrose, Weld)
Mew Gull (*Arapahoe)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (*Kiowa)
Caspian Tern (Jackson, Larimer)
Black Tern (Adams)
Common Tern *Larimer)
NEOTROPIC CORMORANT (*Kiowa)
Great Egret (Jackson)
Great Egret (Jackson)
TRICOLORED HERON (Arapahoe)
Black-crowned Night-Heron (Montezuma)
Mississippi Kite (El Paso, *Otero)
Northern Goshawk (*El Paso)
ZONE-TAILED HAWK (Otero)
Lewis's Woodpecker (*Miramonte)
Red-headed Woodpecker (Logan, *Otero, Pueblo)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Logan)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Teller)
Red-naped Sapsucker (Teller)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (*Otero, Pueblo)
Hairy Woodpecker (Eastern) (*Kiowa)
American Three-toed Woodpecker (*El Paso, *Mesa)
Merlin (Adams)
Willow Flycatcher (La Plata)
Least Flycatcher (Boulder, Pueblo)
Gray Flycatcher (La Plata, Pueblo, Teller)
Dusky Flycatcher (La Plata, *Otero, Pueblo)
Black Phoebe (La Plata, Ouray)
Eastern Phoebe (Boulder, Jefferson, Otero, Pueblo)
Vermilion Flycatcher (Otero)
Cassin's Kingbird (Otero)
Eastern Kingbird (Montrose, Ouray)
Cassin's Vireo (*El Paso, *Kiowa, Pueblo)
Red-eyed Vireo (El Paso)
Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay (Arapahoe, *Otero)
Chihuahuan Raven (*Otero)
Bushtit (Adams, Larimer, Otero)
Marsh Wren (Arapahoe, El Paso, Larimer)
Carolina Wren (Arapahoe)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (*El Paso, Mesa, *Otero, *San Juan)
Eastern Bluebird (*Otero)
Curve-billed Thrasher (El Paso, *Kiowa, *Otero, Pueblo)
Northern Mockingbird (Gunnison, Moffat)
Red Crossbill (*Larimer)
McCown's Longspur (*Jackson)
Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Otero)
Clay-colored Sparrow (El Paso, *Moffat, Otero, Pueblo)
Black-throated Sparrow (*Otero)
Lark Bunting (Alamosa, Grand, Jackson, Lake, Routt, Teller)
EASTERN MEADOWLARK (Logan)
Bullock's Oriole (Teller)
Baltimore Oriole (*Prowers)
Northern Waterthrush (El Paso, Gunnison, Jackson, La Plata, *Moffat, Ouray, Pueblo)
Black-and-white Warbler (Boulder, Mesa)
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, *Kiowa, Otero)
Painted Bunting (Otero)
Dickcissel (Logan)
ADAMS COUNTY:
---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 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 20 at Cherry Creek SP, Tim Ryan 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.
---On August 20 at Cherry Creek State Park, Cynthia Madsen reported Hooded Merganser.
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.
CLEAR CREEK COUNTY:
---On August 20 at Echo Lake, Phil Lyon reported 8 Barrow's Goldeneye (1 ad f, 7 young)
EL PASO COUNTY:
---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 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.
---On August 20 at Aiken Canyon Preserve, Terence Berger reported American Three-toed Woodpecker, Cassin's Vireo, and 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers.
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 19 at Cold Creek OS, Cynthia Kristensen reported 2 Eastern Phobe.
KIOWA COUNTY:
---On August 20 at Neenoshe Reservoir, David Tonnessen and Jim Merrit reported Semipalmated Plover, Long-billed Curlew, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Hairy Woodpecker (eastern), Cassin's Vireo, 2 Curve-billed Thrashers, Indigo Bunting, Upland Sandpiper and 2 NEOTROPIC CORMORANTS.
LAKE COUNTY:
---On August 15 at 1837 – 1953 Hwy 24 in Leadville, Christian Hagenlocher reported m Lark Bunting.
LA PLATA COUNTY:
---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 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.
---On August 20 at Red Feather Lakes, Joel Adams reported 3 Red Crossbill.
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 15 at Grand Junction WA, Carol Ortenzio reported Blue-gray Gnatcatcher and Rose-breasted Grosbeak.
---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.
---On August 20 at Flowing Park Reservoir Area, Mike Henwood reported 2 American Three-toed Woodpeckers.
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. On August 18 at Loudy-Simpson, Forrest Luke reported Clay-colored Sparrow and Northern Waterthrush.
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.
---On August 20 on Nucla Avenue Five, Coen Dexter and Brenda Wright reported Sandhill Crane.
---On August 20 at Redv ale Pond, Coen Dexter and Brenda Wright reported Greater Yellowlegs.
MONTEZUMA COUNTY:
---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 20, Pablo Quezada, Jim Merritt, and David Tonnessen reported 7 Greater Roadrunner, 2 Mississippi Kites, 7 Red-headed Woodpecker, 3 Ladder-backed Woodpeckers, Dusky Flycatcher, Cassin's Kingbird, 3 Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, 3 Chihuahuan Raven, 3 Eastern Bluebirds, Curve-billed Thrasher, 5 Black-throated Sparrow, 5 Rufous-crowned Sparrows, 2 Summer Tanagers, and Indigo Bunting.
---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.
---On August 20 at Vogel Canyon, Pablo Quezada and David Tonnessen reported Ladder-backed Woodpecker and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.
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.
---On August 20 at Elk Meadows (Miller Mesa), Magda Sokolowski reported Lewis's Woodpecker.
PROWERS COUNTY:
---On August 20 in Lamar on S 13th St., Dorothy Russell reported Baltimore Oriole.
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. On August 20 in Silverton, Lori Nixon reported Summer Tanager and Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY:
---On August 20 at Miramonte Reservoir, Coen Dexter, Brenda Wright, and Eric Hynes reported 4 Baird's Sandpipers, 2 Lewis's Woodpeckers, and 4 Northern Pintail.
---On Aujgust 20 at Snyder's Pond, Coen Dexter and Brenda Wright reported Baird's Sandpiper.
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 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:
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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