Compiler: Joyce Takamine
e-mail:RBA AT cobirds.org
Date: July 28, 2016
This is the Rare Bird Alert for Thursday, July 28, 2016, sponsored by
Denver Field
Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.
Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species)
Gunnison Sage-Grouse (Mesa)
Dusky Grouse (Mesa)
Sharp-tailed Grouse (Logan)
Little Blue Heron (Boulder)
Green Heron (Boulder)
Snowy Plover (Alamosa)
Upland Sandpiper (Jefferson, Kiowa/Prowers, Logan)
Whimbrel (Alamosa)
WESTERN GULL (Alamosa, Washington)
Thayer's Gull (Washington)
Lesser Black-backed Gull (Alamosa, Washington)
Black Tern (El Paso)
Black Swift (Boulder)
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD (Pueblo)
Lewis's Woodpecker (Boulder)
Red-headed Woodpecker (Boulder, Washington)
Red Bellied Woodpecker (Logan)
Williamson's Sapsucker (Mesa)
American Three-toed Woodpecker (Boulder, Mesa)
Least Flycatcher (Routt, Washington, Weld)
Gray Flycatcher (Gunnison)
Black Phoebe (Garfield)
Great Crested Flycatcher (Lincoln)
Cassin's Kingbird (Fremont, Garfield, La Plata, Lincoln)
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Lincoln)
Pacific Wren (Boulder)
Carolina Wren (Washington)
Chestnut-collared Longspur (El Paso, Larimer, Weld)
McCown's Longspur (El Paso, *Larimer, Lincoln, Weld)
Black-and-white Warbler (Douglas)
Magnolia Warbler (Washington)
Black-throated Sparrow (Conejos, Otero)
BAIRD'S SPARROW (*Larimer)
Summer Tanager (Boulder)
Bobolink (Broomfield, Jefferson)
Brown-capped Rosy-Finch (El Paso)
*For locations you are not familiar with (e.g. "Lower Latham"), please
refer to CFO's Colorado County Birding site for directions:
www.coloradocountybirding.org
ALAMOSA COUNTY:
---On July 11, John Rawinski reported that the WESTERN GULL is still at
Blanca Wetlands on Pond #115. Blanca Wetlands is closed to birders until
July 16. On July 16, David Dowell reported WESTERN GULL, Lesser
Black-backed Gull and Snowy Plover at Blanca Wetlands. On July 20 Sam
Fason reported WESTERN GULL on pond on road to South Mallard (115) and
Whimbrel on 115 at Blanca Wetlands. On July 23, Sam Fason reported WESTERN
GULL and Lesser Black-backed Gull on large pnd east of North Mallard
parking area and 4 Snowy Plovers in various locations.
BOULDER COUNTY:
---On July 15, Gabirel Wiltse reported Lewis's Woodpecker and Red-headed
Woodpecker on Peak-to-Peak Highway.
---On July 15, Mary Brown reported ad Little Blue Heron and Green Heron at
Rogers Grove Park in Longmont. David Dowell and Nick Moore refound the
Little Blue Heron and Green Heron at Rogers Grove Park on July 15. On July
15, John Vanderpoel reported Little Blue Heron at Rogers Grove Park. On
July 16, Chris Goulart and many other birders reported Little Blue Heron
and Green Heron at Rogers Grove Park. On July 17, Tom Behfield, Art Hudak,
Jeff Parks, Wilem van Vliet, Bill Kaempfer and Peter Burke reported Little
Blue Heron at Rogers Grove Park. On July 18, Carl Starace and Mark
Minner-Lee reported Little Blue Heron and Green Heron at Rogers Grove
Park. On July 18, Gwen Moore, Kim Mauritz, Johnna Beam, and Brandon Nooner
reported Little Blue Heron at Rogers Grove Park. On July 19 Sue Riffe
reported Little Blue Heron and Green Heron at Rogers Grove Park and many
other birders reported Little Blue Heron. On July 20, Little Blue Heron
was reported by Rudi Nuissl, Chuck Hundertmark, Andrew McFadden, Kevin
Keirn, and Christian Nunes at Rogers Grove Park in Longmont. On July 21,
Little Blue Heron was reported by Deb Carstensen, Jane Baryames, Susan and
Maikel Wise at Rogers Grove Park. On July 22, John Rutenbeck and Chris
Rurik reported Little Blue Heron at Rogers Grove Park. On July 23,
Michelle Puplava and John Rutenbeck and several other birders reported
Little Blue Heron at Roger Grove Park.
---On July 13, a f Summer Tanager was reported by Dennis Palafox on the
Bear Canyon Trail in Boulder Mountain Park.
---On June 24 a singing stub-tailed wren (Winter/Pacific) was reported by
Steve Mlodinow in Wild Basin of Rocky Mt NP just N of bridge that leads
away from Calypso Cascade towards Ouzel Falls. On June 28, a Pacific Wren
was reported by Bill Rowe just below Calypso Cascades in Wild Basin of
Rocky Mt NP. On July 4, Kathy Mihm Dunning reported Pacific Wren at
Calypso Cascades in Wild Basin of Rocky Mt NP. On July 9 at Wild Basin in
Rocky Mt NP, David Dowell reported Pacific Wren, Black Swift on nest, 2
American Three-toed Woodpeckers. On July 16, at Wild Basin, Ouzel Falls in
Rocky Mountain NP, Nick Moore reported Pacific Wren. On July 19 Tim Mitzen
reported Pacific Wren near Calypso Cascades in Wild Basin of Rocky Mt NP.
On July 23 Chris Gilbert reported Pacific Wren at Ouzel Falls in Wild Basin
of Rocky Mt NP.
On July 20, Todd Deininger reported Pacific Wren at Calypso Cascades in
Wild Basin of Rocky Mt NP.
BROOMFIELD:
---On July 20 a Bobolink in non-breeding plumage was reported by Doug Kibbe
at Ponds at 160th Ave. The bird was at the edge of the marsh.
CONEJOS COUNTY:
---On July 16, at Pinon Hi
