[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 2 November 2015

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler:   Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date:  November 2, 2015
This is the Rare Bird Alert, Monday, November 2 sponsored by Denver Field
Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.

Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species).

Greater White-fronted Goose (Kiowa)
Surf Scoter (*Arapahoe, *Park, Weld)
Black Scoter (El Paso, *Park)
Barrow's Goldeneye (Routt)
Red-throated Loon (*Boulder)
Red-necked Grebe (Douglas, El Paso, *Jefferson)
Broad-Winged Hawk (Boulder)
Ruddy Turnstone (Douglas)
Dunlin (*Larimer)
Red Phalarope (Boulder, Logan)
Pomarine Jaeger (Park)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (*Adams, *Larimer, Morgan)
Caspian Tern (Pueblo)
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD (Jefferson)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Bent, Lincoln, Weld)
American Three-toed Woodpecker (Park)
Eastern Phoebe (*Arapahoe, Pueblo,  Weld)
Black Phoebe (Mesa)
BROWN CRESTED FLYCATCHER (Jefferson)
Blue-headed Vireo (Kit Carson)
Winter Wren (Morgan)
SEDGE WREN (Weld)
Wood Thrush (Kit Carson)
Curve-billed Thrasher (Bent)
Chestnut-collared Longspur (Montezuma)
McCown's Longspur (Morgan)
Lapland Longspur (Weld)
MOURNING WARBLER (Kit Carson)
Northern Parula (Weld)
Bay-breasted Warbler (*Arapahoe)
Palm Warbler (Denver)
Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Fremont)
Canyon Towhee (Baca, Bent)
Harris's Sparrow (Bent)
Swamp Sparrow (Boulder)
Golden-crowned Sparrow (*Boulder)
Rusty Blackbird (Larimer)
Common Redpoll (*Arapahoe, *Larimer)

ADAMS COUNTY:
--A Lesser Black-backed Gull was reported by Gregg Goodrich and Anna Troth
at the boat ramp at Barr Lake SP on November 1.

ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
--A Surf Scoter was reported by Hugh Kingery at S Platte Reservoir in South
Platte Park on October 24.  On October 25, Jim Schmoker, Scott Manwaring,
and Tom Behnfield reported Scurf Scoter at South Platte Reservoir.  On
October 27, Mindy Musick King reported Surf Scoter at South Platte
Reservoir.  On November 1, Doug Kibbe reported 2 Surf Scoters at South
Platte Reservoir.
--A Bay-breasted Warbler was reported by Scott Manwaring at Cherry Creek Sp
on the East Lake Loop on October 31.
--A Common Redpoll was reported by Jamie Simo on the Lake Loop at Cherry
Creek SP on November 1.
--An Eastern Phoebe was reported by Glenn Walbek at Cherry Creek SP on
November 1.

BACA COUNTY:
--3 Canyon Towhees were reported by Mark L Hoffman at Cottonwood Canyon on
October 21.
--Mark L Hoffman reported Canyon Towhee at Carrizo Canyon on October 21.

BENT COUNTY:
--On October 18, Duane Nelson reports that he has visiting Red-bellied
Woodpecker, Canyon Towhee, Harris's Sparrow, and Curve-billed Thrasher at
his yard in Las Animas.  Birders are welcome if you notify Duane first.
Contact him at dnelson1 AT centurytel.net

BOULDER COUNTY:
--A Red Phalarope was reported by Chris Rurik at Prince Lake #2 on October
22 and the bird was seen by many birders on October 22.
--A Broad-winged Hawk was reported by J. D. Birchmeier at Valmont
Presbyterian Church Pond on October 24.
--A Swamp Sparrow was reported by Ted Floyd in the SW corner of Stearns
Lake on October 24.
--On October 25, David Dowell found Golden-crowned Sparrow at Teller Farm
and Ted Floyd reported at Lesser Black-backed Gull flying overhead.  On
October 27, Eva Matthews reported Golden-crowned Sparrow at Teller Farm.
On November 1, Peter Burke reported Golden-crowned Sparrow at Teller Farm.
--On October 27, John Vanderpoel reported Red-throated Loon at Terry Lake.
The loon was seen by many birders on October 27.
On October 28, Red-throated Loon was reported by Steve Mlodinow, Boulder
Bird Club, Todd Deininter, Jesse Casias, and Bill Kaempfer.  On October 29,
Tom Behnfield reported Red-throated Loon at Terry Lake.  On October 31,
Carl Starace and m.ob. reported Red-throated Loon at Terry Lake.  On
November 1, Tina Jones, Bob Spencer, Lee Farrell, and Kevin Keirn reported
Red-throated Loon at Terry Lake.

DENVER COUNTY:
--A western Palm Warbler was reported by Art Hudak at Bear Creek Park on
October 25.  The park of off Kenyon adjacent to Fort Logan National
Cemetery.

DOUGLAS COUNTY:
--A Red-necked Grebe was reported by Joey Kellner near marina sandspit on
October 24.
--A Red-necked Grebe was reported by Joey Kellner and m.ob. near marina
sandspit on October 31

EL PASO COUNTY:
--A Red-necked Grebe was reported by Mark Peterson at Big Johnson in the
Northeast corner on October 17.  On October 19, Mark Peterson refound
Red-necked Grebe at Big Johnson.  On October 24, Steve Getty reported
Red-necked Grebe at Big Johnson.
--On October 29, John Drummond reported f-type Black Scoter at Big Johnson

FREMONT COUNTY:
--On October 21, Setta Moss reported 2 Rufous-crowned Sparrow at Tunnel
Drive in Canon City.

JEFFERSON COUNTY:
--A RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD was reported by Bill Kaempfer at Curt
Campbell's residence on October 25.
Campbell reported that there were 2 hummingbirds around his feeder in later
afternoon on October 25.  He welcomes
birders to try for the hummer at 16475 W. 62nd Lane.  There is a public

[cobirds] Swamp Sparrow - Rocky Mtn Arsenal NWR - Adams County

[JBreitsch - Denver]

2 November 2015
0800
Southwest of Lake Ladora; not quite as far south as E 64th/Wildlife Drive, 
but just north of there.  If you take the Ladora Loop trail north of the 
road (opposite the woodland trail), you follow it around to where it is 
going east and then turns north.  At that corner is some brush and mullein; 
the bird was hanging out with some other sparrow species there.  Others 
included White-crowned Sparrow, American Tree Sparrow, Song and Vesper 
Sparrows.

Ducks included Canvasback, Redhead, Bufflehead, Ring-necked, Hooded 
Mergansers, etc.  I didn't see any goldeneyes or scaup, but I didn't visit 
any of the other bodies of water in the refuge.  

John Breitsch
Denver, Colorado
https://www.flickr.com/photos/breitschbirding/

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[cobirds] 6 Common Loons at Chatfield SP 11/2

[David Suddjian]

This morning at Chafield Res. there were 4 *Common Loons* together near the
Douglas shoreline on the water between the Old Heronry Overlook and the
line of buoys, plus one north of the Marina sand spit, and one more close
to the dam tower. 6 Total.

Also my first *Common Goldeneye* of the season, 1 female *Red-breasted
Merganser*, 1 *Merlin*, 1 *Prairie Falcon*, and 1 *Nor. Harrier*. It was
pretty breezy so I did not do any land birding of consequence.

David Suddjian
Littleton, CO

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[cobirds] late Gray Catbird, Fort Collins (Larimer) on 2Nov

[DAVID A LEATHERMAN]

Today, while photographing plants on the grounds of what remains of CSU's Plant 
Environmental Research Center (PERC) plantings - it is just west of the 
monstrous, new football stadium building site in the sw corner of the main Fort 
Collins campus - I had a Gray Catbird.  It's late on the calendar for this 
unhardiest (is that a word?) of our common mimic thrushes, but maybe not 
considering the mild weather we've had so far this autumn.  This would be a 
good bird to keep track of in hopes it sticks around until the Fort Collins 
Christmas Bird Count about 6 weeks from now.  The location: in the extreme nw 
part of the PERC grounds is a large, pale building with lots of black planting 
tubs stacked by its se corner.  Attached to the south side of this building is 
a dark green cement block shed.  South of these structures is a 150-foot long 
hedge row oriented north-south.  The bird was at the south end of the hedgerow 
near the cluster of buckeye/horsechestnut trees.  Just west of this part of 
PERC is a large, multistoried new dorm.

As further demonstration of how creatures are hanging on to summer, also today 
a tattered but active Common Buckeye (butterfly) was soaking up sun here and 
there on the paths in the northwest corner of Fort Collins' Gardens on Spring 
Creek, about a mile south of PERC on the west side of Centre Avenue south of 
Prospect.

Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins

  

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[cobirds] Colorado Christmas Bird Count dates

['Brandon K. Percival' via Colorado Birds]

Hi all,
Christmas Bird Count Compilers got an e-mail from National Audubon today, that 
their website is open to post dates for Christmas Bird Counts.  As usual the 
dates are from Monday, 14 Dec to Tuesday, 5 January.  
So, the weekends, when many counts will be held this year would be Saturday, 19 
December and Sunday, 20 December, Saturday 26 December, and Sunday, 27 
December, and Saturday, 2 January 2016 and Sunday, 3 January 2016.  Another 
popular date would be Friday, 1 January 2016.  There are usually over 45 
Christmas Bird Counts held in Colorado annually, from all over the state.  
I'll try to post dates here, later in November.  Compilers if you want people 
to help with your count, go ahead and let the word out on cobirds, etc. and 
post the date to the CBC Website.  If you have issues doing that, let me know, 
or the CBC people back east.  Some counts in rural areas in the state, don't 
have a lot of help, so if you can help with some of these counts, that would be 
wonderful. 
Brandon PercivalColorado CBC Regional Editor
Pueblo West, CO

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[cobirds] First of the season Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk in Canon City

[SeEttaM .]

I spotted a Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk from the MacKenzie Ave end of the
Canon City Riverwalk over the week-end.  I got two pics which show it's
white lorals and cheeks,
whitish chest, whitish underside of tail with otherwise blackish feathering
that I have uploaded to my Birds and Nature blog
.

Yesterday I enjoyed at least 10 Yellow-rumped Warblers foraging in a mixed
flock on that same MacKenzie Ave part of the Canon City Riverwalk.  Since
we usually have overwintering Yellow-rumps it is hard to know if these are
latish migrants for just birds that will stay around over the winter.
There was a Black Phoebe in that same area on Friday but haven't seen it
since.

SeEtta Moss
Canon City
http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com

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