Date: December 24, 2019
Email: RBA@cobirds.org
Compiler: Allison Hilf; ahilf@me.com
Phone: 303.888.5110
Birders have been helpful by reporting updates to COBIRDS. Thanks!
CAPITAL LETTERS denote very rare species, as listed by the Colorado Bird Records Committee at the CFO website.
(*) indicates new information on a species.
For more information on birds seen today, go to cobirds.org and scroll to the bottom for "Recent eBird Sightings."
Rare, out-of-place and out-of-season species include:
BRANT (*Jefferson)
Trumpeter Swan (Adams, Logan)
Tundra Swan (Las Animas)
White-winged Scoter (*Douglas, *Jefferson)
Long-tailed Duck continues to be seen in multiple counties. You can search with eBird's "Explorer" menu in your preferred county for any recent sightings.
Red-necked Grebe (*Douglas, *Jefferson)
Dunlin (Pueblo)
Glaucous-winged Gull (Larimer)
Great Black-backed Gull (Pueblo)
Pacific Loon (*Douglas, *Jefferson)
SNOWY OWL (*Logan)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Boulder, Jefferson, Garfield, *Larimer)
PACIFIC WREN (Fremont, *Jefferson)
GYRFALCON (Larimer)
Varied Thrush (Jefferson)
Rusty Blackbird (Garfield)
Black-and-white Warbler (Denver)
ADAMS COUNTY:
—On Dec 21 a Trumpeter Swan was reported at Barr Lake. First reported by Ray Graham on Dec 19.
BOULDER COUNTY:
—On Dec 22 a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker was reported In pines along Old Tale Road south of Arapahoe, about halfway to McSorley Lane. First reported by Nathan Pieplow on Dec 15.
DENVER COUNTY:
—On Dec 19 a Black-and-white Warbler was reported at Bluff Lake by Virginia Dickinson.
DOUGLAS COUNTY:
—On Dec 23 a White-winged Scoter was reported at Chatfield SP from the Handicapped Fisherman's Platform. This is likely the same bird reported from the N Boat Ramp in Jefferson County. First reported by Tony Leukering on Dec 22.
—On Dec 23 a Red-necked Grebe was reported at Chatfield SP from the Handicapped Fisherman's Platform. This is likely the same bird reported from the N Boat Ramp in Jefferson County. First reported by Al Guarente on Dec 21.
—On Dec 23 a Pacific Loon was reported at Chatfield SP from the Handicapped Fisherman's Platform. This is likely the same bird reported from the N Boat Ramp in Jefferson County. First reported by Tony Leukering on Dec 8.
FREMONT COUNTY:
—On Dec 22 a PACIFIC WREN was reported on Riverwalk Bluff Trail west of Raynolds near bench on left side of trail. First reported by Brandon Percival on Dec 21.
GARFIELD COUNTY:
—On Dec 21 a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker was reported in Carbondale by Sue Riffe.
—On Dec 21 4 Rusty Blackbirds were reported in Carbondale by Jason Gregg.
JEFFERSON COUNTY:
—On Dec 23 a PACIFIC WREN was reported at Bear Creek Lake Park, along Bear Creek WSW of Whitetail Picnic area by Chris Wood. This is a first County Record for this species.
—On Dec 23 a BRANT was reported at Lake Arbor; later in the afternoon Jessi Oberbeck relocated it at Indian Tree Golf Course behind the Sprouts shopping center, the same location it had been seen a few years ago . First reported by Amy Cervene on Dec 20.
—On Dec 23 a White-winged Scoter was reported at Chatfield SP-N Boat Ramp area. First reported by Joey Kellner on Nov 29.
—On Dec 23 a Red-necked Grebe was reported at Chatfield SP-N Boat Ramp area. First reported by Al Guarente on Dec 21.
—On Dec 23 a Pacific Loon was reported at Chatfield SP on the Jefferson side of Chatfield Res. First reported by Joey Kellner on Dec 8.
—On Dec 22 a male Varied Thrush was seen at a private home near Carmody Park, Lakewood. For details, please see the note Joe Roller posted Dec 14 on COBirds. Visitors are welcome, with some reasonable guidelines from the homeowner.
—On Dec 20 a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker was reported in the Beverly Heights Neighborhood by August Hazel.
—On Dec 20 a Pacific Loon was reported on Standly Lake on north shore by Myron Gerhard.
LAS ANIMAS:
—On Dec 20 a Tundra Swam was reported at Trinidad Res by Tony Godfrey.
LARIMER COUNTY:
—On Dec 23 a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker was reported in Fort Collins at Grandview Cemetery by David Leatherman. This appears to be a young male and hence would be a different bird than the adult reported on Dec 22. It was in an American Elm near the Trolley House on Mountain Avenue just east of the cemetery entrance.
—On Dec 22 a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker was reported in Fort Collins from the NW corner of the golf course just south of Grandview Cemetery (just east of the big gray winter portapoty). It flew into the giant cottonwood just to the east. This appears to be the same tree where the bird was reported by Fawn Simonds on FC CBC, Dec 14.
Probably the same adult male seen in the cemetery in November.
—On Dec 18 a Gyrfalcon was observed near the Larimer County Landfill in SW Fort Collins. First reported by Robert Beauchamp on Nov 3. Please post updates to COBirds.
—On Dec 18 a Glaucous-winged Gull was reported at Horseshoe Res by Joe Kipper.
LOGAN COUNTY:
—On Dec 23 a SNOWY OWL was reported at North Sterling State Park by CO Parks & Wildlife. There was a SNOWY OWL found in the same park by Kathy Mihm Dunning in 2011. Pictures indicate the current owl sighting appears to be near the same location as the one in 2011.
—On Dec 21 a Trumpeter Swan was reported at Jumbo Reservoir by Glenn Walbek.
PUEBLO COUNTY:
—On Dec 19 a Dunlin was reported at Pueblo Reservoir South Marina on the tires with the gulls by Evan Carlson.
—A Great Black-backed Gull that has spent the last umpteen winters at Lake Pueblo (nicknamed "Murray") is here again. See COBirds for most recent sighting.
It's Christmas Bird Count time across Colorado, between Dec 14 & Jan 5.
Please help out and sign up for one or more of these CBCs!
For a clickable map of Colorado's counts with registration/location details, go to https://audubon.maps.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=ac275eeb01434cedb1c5dcd0fd3fc7b4
Upcoming Denver Field Ornithologists field trip (details at dfobirds.org)
South Platte Park
Friday, December 27
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM
David Suddjian (Email: dsuddjian@gmail.com Phone: 831-713-8659)
Southwestern Metro Area
Monday, December 30
8:30 AM - 12:30 PM
David Suddjian (Email: dsuddjian@gmail.com Phone: 831-713-8659)
Denver City Park (Denver County)
Sunday, January 5
7:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Patrick O'Driscoll (Email: patodrisk@gmail.com Phone: 303-885-6955)
Good birding,
Allison Hilf, Aurora
ahilf@me.com
Phone: 303.888.5110
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