[cobirds] Trumpeter Swans - Wheatridge, Jefferson County

[Dick Schottler]

The wandering pair of Trumpeter Swans is on Prospect Park pond in the 
Wheatridge green belt today, Jan 4 (still there at noon). Prospect Park 
entrance  is on 44th Av. between Kipling and Ward Rd. Wonderful close 
views of the swans!


Dick Schottler, Golden, CO

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[cobirds] Hotchkiss CBC

[Jason Beason]

Highlights were first Black Phoebe ever for the this CBC, 2 Red-naped
Sapsuckers, 1 Common Grackle, and all three species of rosy-finches. I am
waiting for report from one group but 70 species reported so far. Black
Phoebe was at Hotchkiss National Fish Hatchery and both Red-naped
Sapsuckers were at Crawford Cemetery. Rosy-finches were at private feeder
at west end of circle.

We had a great group of folks helping out and huge thanks to everyone for
getting out and counting!

-- 
Jason Beason
Paonia - Delta County

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[cobirds] Redpoll - Golden - Jeffco

[Ira Sanders]

Birders,
The redpoll put in an appearance this morning.  No Rosy's or Harris's
Sparrow yet today.

-- 
Ira Sanders
Golden, CO

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[cobirds] Larimer county --- TWO AMERICAN WOODCOCKs, 1/4/2016

['Mark Peterson' via Colorado Birds]

Hi COBirders,
I just got of the phone with Cole Wild and he and Heater Wild had just finished 
viewing the previously reported AMERICAN WOODCOCK and were headed out when they 
came across another WOODCOCK downstream.  I believe Heather videoed the second 
bird and then they walked back up to verify the first bird was still there and 
it was still siting in the same location.
Pretty amazing and great find to all the original finders of these hard to 
detect species! -Mark Peterson
Colorado Springs


   

  

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Re: [cobirds] Trumpeter Swans - Wheatridge, Jefferson County

[Scott Somershoe]

The trumpeter swans were at prospect park until about 12:50 pm when they
flew and didn't return.

Scott Somershoe
Littleton CO

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Dick Schottler 
wrote:

> The wandering pair of Trumpeter Swans is on Prospect Park pond in the
> Wheatridge green belt today, Jan 4 (still there at noon). Prospect Park
> entrance  is on 44th Av. between Kipling and Ward Rd. Wonderful close views
> of the swans!
>
> Dick Schottler, Golden, CO
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[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 4 January 2016

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler:   Joyce Takamine
e-mail: RBA AT cobirds.org
Date:  January 4, 2016
This is the Rare Bird Alert, Monday, January 4, sponsored by Denver Field
Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.

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

Trumpeter Swan (Arapahoe, Chaffee, Douglas, Jefferson, *Mesa, Weld)
Tundra Swan (Boulder)
Swan Spec (Mesa)
White-winged Scoter (Arapahoe)
Long-tailed Duck (*Arapahoe, Douglas, El Paso, Jefferson, Logan)
Barrow's Goldeneye (Arapahoe, Chaffee, Garfield, Moffat, Pueblo)
Sharp-tailed Grouse (*Logan)
Pacific Loon (Bent)
American White Pelican (Bent, *Larimer)
AMERICAN WOODCOCK (*Larimer)
Thayer's Gull (Arapahoe,  Bent, Boulder, Douglas, Larimer, Pueblo)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Arapahoe, Douglas, Larimer, Pueblo)
Glaucous Gull (Arapahoe)
Great Black-backed Gull (Arapahoe, Larimer, Pueblo)
White-winged Dove (Pueblo)
Greater Roadrunner (Baca, Otero)
SNOWY OWL (Sedgwick)
Burrowing Owl (Denver)
White-throated Swift (Otero, Pueblo)
ACORN WOODPECKER (*El Paso)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Logan, Pueblo, Weld)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (*Fremont, *Larimer, Pueblo)
Williamson's Sapsucker (El Paso, *Fremont, *La Plata)
Eastern Phoebe (Weld)
Black Phoebe (*Fremont, Pueblo)
Chihuahuan Raven (Boulder, Otero)
Carolina Wren (*Jefferson)
Bewick's Wren (Fremont, Otero)
Winter Wren (Douglas, *Fremont, Pueblo)
Varied Thrush (Arapahoe, *Grand)
Curve-billed Thrasher (Pueblo)
Brown/Long-billed Thrasher (Weld)
Brown Thrasher (Baca)
Lapland Longspur (Douglas, Kit Carson, Logan)
Yellow-throated Warbler (*Larimer)
Rufous-crowned Sparrow (Fremont)
Canyon Towhee (Fremont, Otero)
GOLDEN-CROWNED SPARROW (Boulder)
Northern Cardinal (Logan)
Lazuli Bunting (Larimer)
Rusty Blackbird (Arapahoe, Archuleta, Pueblo)
Great-tailed Grackle (*La Plata)
Brown-capped Rosy-Finch (Jefferson, Mesa, Teller)
Black Rosy-Finch (Jefferson, Teller)
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch (Jefferson, Mesa, Teller, Weld)
PURPLE FINCH (Kit Carson)
Common Redpoll (*Jefferson, Larimer, Routt)

ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
--A White-winged Scoter was reported by Tim King at South Platte Reservoir
on December 14.  On December 18, Charles Lawrence reported White-winged
Scoter at South Platte Reservoir.  A White-winged Scoter was reported by
Daniel Horton at South Platte Reservoir on December 24.
--On December 24, Ben Sampson reported 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls and 1
Great Black-backed Gull at Cherry Creek SP.  On December 24, Glenn Walbek
reported 8 Lesser Black-backed Gulls and a Glacous Gull at Cherry Creek SP.
--On December 24, David Dowell reported 4 Thayer's Gulls, 10 Lesser
Black-backed Gulls, and 1 ad Glaucous Gull at Aurora Reservoir.
--On December 29 at South Platte Reservoir, Mark Chavez and Steve Miller
reported 2 Trumpeter Swans and 3 Long-tailed Ducks and David Suddjian
reported ad Lesser Black-backed Gull and 1-st cyc Thayer's Gull.  On
December 30, Jayne James reported Long-tailed Ducks and 2 Trumpeter Swans
at South Platte Reservoir.  On December 31, Joey Kellner reported 2
Trumpeter Swans, 2 Barrow's Goldeneyes (1m, 1f), 3 Long-tailed Ducks (2f,
1m) at South Platte Reservoir.  On January 1, 2-3 Long-tailed Ducks were
reported Gwen Moore and many other birders at South Platte Reservoir.  On
January 2, Joey Kellner and several others reported 3 Long-tailed Ducks at
South Platte Reservoir.
On January 3, C Warnecke and several others reported 3 Long-tailed Ducks at
South Platte Reservoir.
--A Varied Thrush was reported by Becky Campbell near Cherry Creek on the
Denver Urban CBC on January 1.
--A Rusty Blackbird was spotted by Doug Shoffner at South Platte Park along
the river about 1/4 miles N of C470 overpass, spillway, and paved
roundabout on January 2.

ARCHULETA COUNTY:
--A f Rusty Blackbird was reported by Bennett Bailey at Pagosa Hot Springs
on December 31.

BACA COUNTY:
--On January 1, Steve Mlodinow reported Greater Roadrunner and Brown
Thrasher at Two Buttes below the dam.

BENT COUNTY:
--On December 31, Duane Nelson reported Pacific Loon and American White
Pelicans at John Martin Reservoir.
--On January 1, Steve Mlodinow reported 60 American White Pelican and 1
Thayer's Gull at John Martin Reservoir.

BOULDER COUNTY:
--On November 24, Stephen Knox reported Golden-crowned Sparrow at Teller
Farm.  On December 24, Jack Harlan reported Golden-crowned Sparrow at
Teller Farm.  On December 25, Craig Rasmussen reported Golden-crowned
Sparrow at Teller Farm.
--On December 25, Ted Floyd reported Chihuahuan Raven and Tundra Swan at
the Valmont Complex.

CHAFFEE COUNTY:
--A Trumpeter Swan and 4 Barrow's Goldeneyes were reported by Jack Harlan
at Sands Lake SWA in Salida on January 1.

DOUGLAS COUNTY:
--Scott Somershoe reported one Long-tailed Ducks at Chatfield.  On December
21, Bryan Arnold reported 3 Long-tailed Ducks at Chatfield.  On December 24
at Chatfield, David Dowell reported 3 Long-tailed Ducks, 1 juv Thayer's
Gull and 1 juv Lesser Black-backed Gull.
--On December 29, Joey Kellner reported Lapland 

[cobirds] Barr Lake Christmas Bird Count, adams and Weld Counties

[Charles Hundertmark]

33 volunteers fanned out from the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies Environment 
Education Center Sunday for the Barr Lake Christmas Bird Count Sunday. Most 
standing water was frozen reducing numbers of waterfowl. Despite overall low 
waterfowl numbers, one Greater White-fronted Goose was found in a flock of 
grazing white-cheeked geese. Also found were four flying Snow Geese.Though 
ducks were few, they included 6 Hooded Mergansers on the South Platte.

Firsts for the count were a Lesser Black-backed Gull and Peregrine Falcon. 
Say’s Phoebes (2 or 3) also put in an appearance for a second year and a 
White-throated Sparrow appeared for only the fourth time on the count. 
Great-tailed Grackles at 3519 broke the previous high by more than 6 times. 
Notably absent were Rough-legged Hawks. 

Other highlights:
Merlin 6
Virginia Rail 1
Northern Shrike 4
Marsh Wren 2
Lapland Longspur 1
Brewer’s Blackbird 300
Great-tailed Grackle 3519

Thanks to Bird Conservancy of the Rockies for hosting the count and to all of 
the volunteers.

Chuck Hundertmark
Compiler
Lafayette, CO
303-604-0531
 

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[cobirds] Redpoll/Harris's Sparrow - Golden - Jeffco

[Ira Sanders]

Birders,
Both were seen this afternoon.

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Ira Sanders
Golden, CO

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[cobirds] Larimer County gulls this past weekend

[quetzal65]

About a thousand gulls were reported on Larimer County Christmas Bird Counts on 
Jan 1. On Saturday, Jan 2, I visited the Larimer landfill for gull viewing 
(check in at front gate for permission and parking instructions). Highlights 
included an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull, juvenile Glaucous Gull and a small 
juvenile/first winter California Gull, plus some Herring Gulls and about a 
hundred Ring-billed Gulls. Most interesting was a putative 4th cycle Cook Inlet 
Gull (Glaucous-winged x American Herring), which in the field appeared as a 
Herring when sitting, and a Thayer's in flight. Photos told a different tale. 

On Sunday afternoon, 3 January 2016, I watched gulls assemble for the nocturnal 
roost at Carter Lake's ice-free north end (fee area). Several hundred 
Ring-billed Gulls were accompanied by a dozen American Herring Gulls (mostly 
adults and a couple first-cycles), 4 Lesser Black-backed Gulls (a large 
first-cycle, a 3rd-cycle, 2 adults), 2 Glaucous (the juvenile and a magnificent 
adult), 1 juvenile Thayer's and the small 1st-cycle California. Birds were 
arriving from the south and the north. Telescope required at both sites (more 
so at Carter Lake). 

Nick Komar 
Fort Collins CO 

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[cobirds] White-throated Swifts, Pueblo County

[mar1...@juno.com]

Yesterday afternoon (Sunday, 3 Jan), from 3:20 to 3:45pm, I watched 20+ 
White-throated Swifts gather below the dam at Pueblo Reservoir. The saga 
continues! 

For folks who would like to try for these birds, I find that the most reliable 
time and place is about 3pm at the pool directly below the dam, on a warmish 
day. They seem to gather here in the afternoon as they return from feeding 
along the river and before they head to their roost in the cliff north of the 
dam. I usually see them over the north end of the concrete portion of the dam.  

This pool is reached by a gravel road off the small parking lot (known locally 
as the Free Lot) near the south entrance station below the dam, on the south 
side of the river. 

No guarantees, of course. I don't know how weather and temperature affect their 
flight patterns. The high temperature here yesterday was about 50 degrees, and 
we seem to see them most reliably on warmer days.


Cheers,
Margie Joy
Pueblo West, CO

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[cobirds] Denver (Urban) Christmas count (Denver, Arapahoe, Adams)

['Hugh Kingery' via Colorado Birds]

 New Year's Day brought out a big contingent of birders who saw a record number 
of species on the Denver (Urban) Christmas count. Its circle includes 10 miles 
of the South Platte, Cherry Creek Reservoir, Rocky Mtn. Arsenal NWR, downtown 
Denver, downtown Aurora, and more.

So far, we have 92 species -- surpassing the previous high of 91. 

New species for the count include the Varied Thrush that Becky Campbell saw in 
her yard, a Hermit Thrush that Paul Slingsby's group found along Cherry Creek, 
and 2 Bonaparte's Gulls reported by Mary Cay Burger's group at Cherry Creek 
reservoir. 

Perhaps the most surprising: 5 Say's Phoebes in three different territories.

I don't have all the reports yet, so I can't report the total individuals seen. 
Cherry Cr. Res. had 1000 Common Mergansers -- tracking the huge numbers seen in 
the Denver CBC at Chatfield & Marston (at least 3800, I think). At the Arsenal 
we found 15 Long-eared Owls (including one in the same grove with a Great 
Horned & a Barn Owl -- interesting mixture). The Denver Zoo had its usual 
contingent of Common Grackles. Apparently they congregate at the Bar-headed 
Goose exhibit and never stray farther than 100 feet away until they leave for 
the summer. 



 

Hugh Kingery 
Franktown, CO

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[cobirds] White-throated Sparrow in Brighton, Adams County

[Douglas Kibbe]

Those who remained for the compilation of the Barr Lake CBC know that a 
White-throated Sparrow was reported from Brighton.Details on the location were 
sketchy, however, as the area was adjacent to an active construction site and 
road nomenclature unclear.The bird was first heard by Pablo Quezada, (proving 
again that younger ears are better ears) as the team walked west along the new 
road alignment for E. Southern Street which will connect Tower Road with S. 
Telluride Street.The bird remained concealed in a dense hedgerow on the south 
side of the new road alignment approximately 200 yards west of the junction of 
Southern St. and Tower Road.  We believe the bird (and dozens of house sparrows 
and finches) is probably frequenting feeders along La Plata CT. on the north 
side of the new alignment.   These private feeders can be partially viewed from 
the new road alignment but are screened by fencing on the north.Anyone visiting 
the site would be advised to use caution in parking and walking since it is an 
active highway construction area.
Doug KibbeLittleton
  

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