Compiler: Mary Driscoll Date July 14, 2013 email: rba AT cobirds.org phone: 303-659-8750 This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, July 14, 2013 sponsored by the Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory. If you are phoning in a message, you can skip the recording by pressing the star key (*) on your phone at any time. Please leave your name, phone number, detailed directions including county, and dates for each sighting. It would be helpful if you would spell your last name. Highlight species include (* indicates new information on this species in this report): Pacific Loon (El Paso) Red-necked Grebe (Jackson) TRICOLORED HERON (Fremont) REDDISH EGRET (*Kiowa) Green Heron (Fremont) LAUGHING GULL (El Paso,*Crowley) SANDWICH TERN (Teller) White-winged Dove (Garfield) Greater Roadrunner (Adams) ACORN WOODPECKER (Pueblo) BROWN-CRESTED FLYCATCHER (Alamosa) Pacific Wren (Grand) Black Phoebe (Fremont) Blue-winged Warbler (Park County) Black-throated Green Warbler (Chaffee) Summer Tanager (Freemont) Scott's Oriole (*Montezuma) ADAMS COUNTY: --Sanders reported a Greater Roadrunner at Barr Lake State Park on the entrance road between the entry station and Picadilly Road on July 3. ALAMOSA COUNTY: --A BROWN-CRESTED FLYCATCHER was reported by Pitcher on private property near Mosca on June 29. It has not been seen since. There's some good shots of the Brown crested Flycatcher here: http://zapatabirding.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/brown-crested-flycatcher-29th-june-2013/
BOULDER COUNTY: --On June 29, Morton reported singing Ovenbirds in Skunk Canyon. CHAFFEE COUNTY: On July 7, Eric DeFonso reported hearing the song of a Black-throated Green Warbler while he was doing RMBO work at a high elevation. He will provide directions to the location if you are interested and like to do high elevation birding at 12,000. His email address is: bay.w...@gmail.com CROWLEY COUNTY: --On June 29, Dowell reported a 1st summer LAUGHING GULL at Lake Henry, seen again on July 12, by Dowell, but not present on July 13. EL PASO COUNTY: --A non-breeding ad LAUGHING GULL was reported by Peterson on June 28, in the SE corner of Big Johnson and was seen again on July 9, by B. Brown. --On July 9, B. Brown reports that the Pacific Loon continues at Big Johnson. FREMONT COUNTY: -- On June 29, Moss reported Black Phoebes near the MacKenzie parking area of the Canon City Riverwalk. -- On July 10, Core reported a Summer Tanager near the MacKenzie parking area of the Canon City Riverwalk. (Access is only from Reynolds Ave.) -- On July 7, Moss reported that the ad TRICOLORED HERON was at Holcim wetlands and one Green Heron was seen by Moss at Holcim on July 5. GRAND COUNTY: On July 6, Jones reported hearing a Pacific Wren in Arapahoe National Forest. The bird was just off the highway 125, about 12 yds. It was singing in a Willow Carr area, which was bordered by many dead Lodgepole Pines, on the north side of the campground entrance road. The wren was heard at the Sawmill Gulch campground. GARFIELD COUNTY: -- Dahl reports a White-winged Dove at his feeder in Rifle on July 2. JACKSON COUNTY: On July 12, Lee Farrell reported a Red-necked Grebe in breeding plumage on Lake John, outside of Walden. Bring a scope as it is generally in the middle of the lake. KIOWA COUNTY: --On July 13, Dowell reports a white morph REDDISH EGRET at Lake Meredith, probably the same bird that was seen by Nelson at Adobe Creek Res. -- On July 5 and July 6, Nelson reports a white morph REDDISH EGRET at Adobe Creek Reservoir 200 yards east of the easternmost camping unit in the SE part of the lake. MONTEZUMA COUNTY: --D. Garrison reports that his mother had two Scott's Orioles in her back yard, on July 13, from 7:00-7:30 AM. They were eating apricots. She is willing for birders to try to see them. Her address: 203 S. Market, Cortez, CO, (blue house). Knock on her door, as the tree is in her fenced back yard. PARK COUNTY: On July 9, Paula Hansley reported hearing a Blue-winged Warbler in Como while she was doing a USGS breeding bird route. After finishing her route, she was unable to find the bird. PUEBLO COUNTY: --On June 29, the Boulder Audubon Field trip organized by Piombino to Pueblo Mountain Park saw at least 3 ACORN WOODPECKERS (2m, 1f). TELLER COUNTY: --On June 27, Linfield reported a breeding plumaged SANDWICH TERN at Manitou Lake. This would be a new state record if accepted. On June 28, Jeff Jones reported that the SANDWICH TERN returned to Manitou Lake. Manitou Lake is north of Woodland Park on Hwy 67. Approximately 6.5 miles north of Hwy 24. The tern was last reported on June 30. DFO FIELD TRIPS: Good Birding, Mary Driscoll Unincorporated Arapahoe County -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/001e01ce7a84%2466327e60%2432977b20%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/2BDA982F-D40C-4836-AFD9-C288D3A5D379%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
