Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date: October 4, 2018
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, October 4 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)
Snow Goose (Prowers)
Cackling Goose (Larimer)
Tundra Swan (Prowers)
Mexican Duck (*Larimer)
Canvasback (Boulder)
Bufflehead (Arapahoe)
Common Goldeneye (Chaffee)
Band-tailed Pigeon (Chaffee)
Greater Roadrunner (Baca)
Common Nighthawk (Jefferson, *Kiowa)
Common Poorwill (Chaffee)
White-throated Swift (El Paso, Montezuma)
Virginia Rail (Weld)
Sora (Boulder)
Sandhill Crane (El Paso)
Marbled Godwit (Larimer)
Sanderling (Larimer)
Pectoral Sandpiper (*Boulder)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Boulder)
Solitary Sandpiper (*Boulder, Las Animas, Mesa)
Willet (Washington)
Parasitic Jaeger (Arapahoe)
Sabine's Gull (Larimer)
Franklin's Gull (*Larmier)
Great Black-backed Gull (Douglas)
Caspian Tern (Washington)
Black Tern (Pueblo)
Common Tern (Kiowa, Weld)
YELLOW-BILLED LOON (Summit)
Double-crested Cormorant (Teller)
Great Egret (Baca, Boulder, Larimer, Montrose)
Snowy Egret (*Boulder)
Cattle Egret (Boulder)
White-faced Ibis (*Garfield, *Montezuma)
Sharp-shinned Hawk (Adams)
Broad-winged Hawk (Baca, *Denver, Larimer)
Swainson's Hawk (Baca, Boulder, Delta, *Kiowa, *Weld)
Rough-legged Hawk (Montezuma)
Lewis's Woodpecker (La Plata, Teller)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Montrose, Summit)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Baca)
Red-naped Sapsucker (Larimer, Montrose)
Ladder-backed Woodpecker (El Paso)
Western Wood-Pewee (Jefferson, *Ouray)
Hammond's Flycatcher (El Paso, Larimer, *Montrose)
Gray Flycatcher (El Paso, Jefferson, Montezuma)
Dusky Flycatcher (Baca, El Paso)
Cordilleran Flycatcher (Larimer, Montezuma)
Black Phoebe (La Plata, Montrose)
Eastern Phoebe (Jefferson)
Vermilion Flycatcher (*Boulder)
Cassin's Kingbird (Baca, Denver)
Western Kingbird (El Paso)
Eastern Kingbird (Douglas, Larimer)
Loggerhead Shrike (*El Paso)
Gray Vireo (Mesa)
Cassin's Vireo (El Paso, Jefferson, Larimer)
Warbling Vireo (Larimer, *Montrose)
Pinyon Jay (Montezuma)
Steller's Jay (Montezuma, *Ouray)
Blue Jay (*Adams)
Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay (Douglas, El Paso, Montezuma, *Montrose, Teller)
Juniper Titmouse (*Montrose)
Brown Creeper (Larimer)
Rock Wren (Baca, *Mesa, Montezuma, *Montrose, *Ouray)
Marsh Wren (Arapahoe, Boulder, *Mesa, Weld)
Bewick's Wren (Las Animas, Mesa,*Montrose, Pueblo)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (*Montrose, *Ouray, Washington)
Golden-crowned Kinglet (San Juan)
Ruby-crowned Kinglet (*Adams, Baca, El Paso, La Plata, *Kiowa, Larimer, Montezuma, *Montrose, Teller)
Eastern Bluebird (Weld)
Mountain Bluebird (Denver,*Montrose, Ouray, Teller)
Swainson's Thrush (Jefferson)
Hermit Thrush (*Adams, El Paso, Larimer)
Curve-billed Thrasher (*El Paso)
Brown Thrasher (*El Paso)
Sage Thrasher (Boulder, *El Paso, *Mesa, *Montrosed)
American Pipit (Kiowa, Larimer, Weld)
American Goldfinch (*Adams)
Chestnut-collared Longspur (*El Paso, *Kiowa)
McCown's Longspur (*Kiowa)
Canyon Towhee (*El Paso)
Chipping Sparrow (El Paso)
Clay-colored Sparrow (El Paso, Prowers)
Lark Sparrow (Archuleta, Eagle)
Sagebrush Sparrow (*Mesa, *Montrose)
Savannah Sparrow (Baca, *El Paso, Lincoln, Prowers)
Fox Sparrow (San Juan)
Lincoln's Sparrow (Chaffee, *El Paso, Kiowa, *Mesa, Teller)
White-throated Sparrow (Baca, *Mesa)
Orchard Oriole (Yuma)
Northern Waterthrush (Boulder, Douglas, La Plata)
Tennessee Warbler (Jefferson)
Orange-crowned Warbler (*Mesa)
Nashville Warbler (La Plata)
American Redstart (El Paso)
Yellow Warbler (Weld)
Blackpoll Warbler (Phillips)
Black-throated Gray Warbler (El Paso, Montezuma)
Townsend's Warbler (El Paso)
Western Tanager (Larimer, Montezuma, *Ouray)
Lazuli Bunting (Pueblo)
Indigo Bunting (Kiowa)
Painted Bunting (Kiowa)
ADAMS COUNTY:
---On October 2 at Barr Lake Banding Station, Meredith McBurney banded Sharp-shinned Hawk, 8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and 4 Hermit Thrush. On October 3 at Barr Lake Banding Station, Meredith
McBurney banded 2 Blue Jay, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Hermit Thrush, and 3 American Goldfinch.
ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On October 1 at Cherry Creek SP, Karl Stecher reported ad Parasitic Jaeger.
---On October 2 at Ketring Park and Lake, Jackson Uyechi reported pair of Bufflehead.
ARCHULETA COUNTY:
---On October 2 at Vista Pond Pagosa Springs, Ben Bailey and Bryon Greco reported 5 Lark Sparrow.
BACA COUNTY:
---On October 1 at CR 39 and CR UU, Tony Leukering reported Cassin's Kingbird, 5 Swainson's Hawk, and Savannah Sparrow.
---On October 1 at Two Butte SWA below dam, Mark Peterson and Tony Leukering reported Greater Roadrunner, 3 Broad-winged Hawk, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Dusky Flycatcher, Rock Wren, 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and 2 White-throated Sparrow.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On October 1 at Walden Ponds, Randal Siebert and many other birders reported Vermilion Flycatcher, 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, 2 Snowy Egret, Great Egret; Lindsay Purifoy reported Northern Waterthrush at Wally Toevs Pond. On October 2 at Walden Ponds, Paula Hansley reported Vermilion Flycatcher by the parking lot; Chuck Hundertmark and many others reported 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, 2 Snowy Egret, and Vermilion Flycatcher in field to east of parking lot on fence posts. On October 3 at Walden Ponds, Michael and Diana King, Ken Wat, Ira and Tammy Sanders, Boulder Bird Club, David Chernack, and Dan Zmolek reported 2 Pectoral Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper, 2 Snowy Egret, and Vermilion Flycatcher.
---On October 2 at Sombrero Marsh in Boulder, Alexander Brown reported 2 m Canvasback and Sora.
---On October 1 in Field at NE corner of 55th and Monarch Road, Peter Burke reported pair of Cattle Egret.
---On October 1 at Jim Hamm Nature Area in Longmont, Jamie Simo reported Swainson's Hawk and Marsh Wren.
---On October 1 at W 120th Ave, Micah Yarbrough reported 2 Sage Thrasher.
CHAFFEE COUNTY:
---On October 1 at Sands Lake SWA, Sally Waterhouse reported Common Goldeneye and Lincoln's Sparrow.
---On October 3 at Maysville, Jeff Guy reported 7 Band-tailed Pigeon.
---On October 3 at The Link School, Christian Hagenlocher reported Common Poorwill.
DELTA COUNTY:
---On October 1 at 15445 Amsbury Rd, Paonia, David Yeamans reported 3 Swainson's Hawk.
DENVER COUNTY:
---At Bluff Lake NC, John Cobb reported ad light phase Broad-winged Hawk.
DOUGLAS COUNTY:
---On October 1 on East Plum Creek Trail, Cynthia Kristensen reported Eastern Kingbird and Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay.
EL PASO COUNTY:
---On October 1 at Chico Basin Rand Banding Station, Kim Geissler banded 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Lincoln's Sparrow, 4 Hermit Thrush, and Brown Thrasher. On October 2 at Chico Basin Ranch Banding Station, Kim Geissler banded Ruby-crowned Kinglet, American Redstart, Hammond's Flycatcher, 3 Lincoln's Sparrow, Curve-billed Thrasher.
---On October 1 at Chico Basin Ranch, Monday Birders reported 10 Sandhill Crane, Ladder-backed Woodpecker, Loggerhead Shrike, Brown Thrasher, 51 Chestnut-collared Longspur, and Savannah Sparrow. On October 3 at Chico Basin Ranch, Jim Merritt and Norm Lewis reported Loggerhead Shrike, Curve-billed Thrasher, Brown Thrasher, 3 Sage Thrasher, 16 Chestnuit-collaraed Longspur, 3 Savannah Sparrow, and 5 Lincoln's Sparrow.
---On October 1 at Clear Spring Ranch, Steve Brown banded 2 juv Dusky Flycatcher, 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and 3 Lincoln's Sparrow.
---On October 1 at Squirrel Creek Road Reservoir, Jim Merrit, Jan Allbright, and Richard Bunn reported 2 Western Kingbird.
---On October 2 at Garden of Gods Park, Bob Craven reported 10 White-throated Swift, Cassin's Vireo, and 7 Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay.
On October 3 at Hanover Fire Station, Norm Lewis reported Curve-billed Thrasher and 2 Canyon Towhee.
GARFIELD COUNTY:
---On October 3 at ponds snear Rifle Garfield Airport (View from Road), JoAnn Riggle reported White-faced Ibis.
JEFFERSON COUNTY:
---On October 1 at Chatfield SP N Boat Ramp, David Suddjian and DFO field trip and Myron Gerhard reported Gray Flycatcher.
---On October 1 at Maple Junction, Cameron Carver reported Common Nighthawk.
---On October 1 at Mount Falcon Park, Jerry Baines reported Swainson's Thrush.
---On October 2 at Bear Creek Lake Park, Mark Chavez reported Cassin's Vireo.
---On October 2 at Crown Hill Regional Park, Sydney Fitzpatrick reported 2 Tennessee Warblers.
KIOWA COUNTY:
---On October 3 at US 385 and CR G, Tony Leukering reported 2 Swainson's Hawk, Chestnut-collared Longspur, and McCown's Longspur.
---On October 3 at Eads (town), Kathy Mihm Dunning reported 2 Common Nighthawk and 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet.
LARIMER COUNTY:
---On October 2 at Grandview Cemetery, Dave Leatherman reported f Red-naped Sapsucker, Hammond's Flycatcher, Cassin's Vireo, 3 Brown Creeper, 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and Hermit Thrush.
---On October 1 at Timnath Reservoir, Jacy Bernath-Plaisted reported Warbling Vireo, 11 Great Egret, and 22 American Pipit.
---On October 3 at Pond N of Horseshoe Reservoir, Nick Komar reported Mexican Duck and Franklin's Gull.
MESA COUNTY:
---On October 2 at Green Heron Pond, Connee Moffatt reported Solitary Sandpiper.
---On October 2 at Highline Lake, Carol Ortenzio reported Sagebrush Sparrow.
---On October 3 at Colorado River SP—Fruita Section, Mike Henwood reported Rock Wren, 4 Marsh Wren, 3 Sage Thrasher, White-throated Sparrow (White Stripe), 3 Sagebrush Sparrow, 2 Lincoln's Sparrow, and 19 Orange-crowned Warbler.
MONTEZUMA COUNTY:
---On October 1 at Hawkins Preserve, Cortez, Erik Hendrickson reported Gray Flycatcher, 3 Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, Rock Wren, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and Western Tanager.
---On October 1 at Mesa Verde NP, Steve Frohock reported 3 White-throated Swift, Rough-legged Hawk, Pinyon Jay, and Steller's Jay.
---On October 3 at Totten Reservoir, Jim Beatty reported 2 White-faced Ibis.
MONTROSE COUNTY:
---On October 1 in Nucla (town), Coen Dexter and Brenda Wright reported Red-naped Sapsucker and Black Phoebe.
---On October 1 at Nucla Domestic Reservoir, Coen Dexter and Brenda Wright reported Great Egret, Williamson's Sapsucker, Red-naped Sapsucker, Hammond's Flycatcher, Black Phoebe, 2 Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, Junipter Titmouse, Rock Wren, 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, and 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet.
---On October 3 at Rose Garden, Coen Dexter and Brenda Wright reported Hammond's Flycatcher, Warbling Vireo, 5 Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, Junipter Titmouse, 3 Rock Wren, 2 Bewick's Wren, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 2 Mountain Bluebird, Sage Thrasher, and Sagebrush Sparrow.
OURAY COUNTY:
---On October 1 at Ridgway SP, David Van Fleet reported Blue-gray Gnatcatcher and 5 Mountain Bluebird.
---On October 3 at Ridgway Reservoir, Kent Nelson reported Rock Wrens by dam and at Banding Station Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Western Tanager, Western Wood Pewee, and Steller's Jay.
PROWERS COUNTY:
---On October 2 at North Gateway Park, Tony Leukering reported Snow Goose, Tundra Swan, Clay-colored Sparrow, and Savannah Sparrow.
SUMMIT COUNTY:
---On October 1 at Dillon Reservoir Blue River Inlet, M Walt and Frank Farrell reported YELLOW-BILLED LOON. On October 2 at Dillon Reservoir, Blue River Inlet, Phil Lyon reported YELLOW-BILLED LOON.
TELLER COUNTY:
---On October 1 at Manitou Lake, Scott Chalmers reported Double-crested Cormorant, Lewis's Woodpecker, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Mountain Bluebird, and 2 Lincoln's Sparrow.
WELD COUNTY:
---On October 1 at Crow Valley CG, Dave Leatherman reported Broad-winged Hawk, juv Red-naped Sapsucker, Marsh Wren, 2 Eastern Bluebirds, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Hermit Thrush, 8 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Swainson's Thrush, and American Pipit (flyover).
---On October 2 at Union Reservoir, Steve Mlodinow reported Common Tern, 4 Great Egret, Marsh Wren, American Pipit, and Yellow Warbler.
---On October 2 on US 85 S of LaSalle, Ira Sanders reported 2 Swainson's Hawk.
DFO Field Trips
Boulder County
Thursday, October 4
7:00 AM – 2:00 PM
John Malenich (john malenich AT comcast.net; 303-359-9456 cell)
Republican Management Area and Pipit Hill
Sunday, 7 October
5:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Gregg Goodrich (GreggGoodrich AT gmail.com; 303-665-9135)
Good Birding,
Joyce Takamine
Boulder
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