[cobirds] Bird Conservancy Banding Report - Barr Lake Station, 10/15/17

[Meredith . McBurney]

Final day of 2017 banding season started late because of COLD weather.  
While waiting for the sun to warm things up, we busied ourselves taking 
down nets that were already partly in the water - the lake is filling up 
fast.  Highlight of the day was a spectacular Flicker Intergrade - lovely 
yellow on tail and underside of wings, but with a red-shafted head 
pattern.  Relatively few birds banded:

Northern Flicker Intergrade 1
Orange-crowned Warbler 2
Song Sparrow 2
White-crowned Sparrow, Gambel's 6
Dark-eyed Junco, Slate-colored 1
Dark-eyed Junco, Oregon 2

A low season in terms of number of birds, but an interesting variety and 
more rare/unusual birds than usual.  A more complete report coming 
soon...

Meredith McBurney
Bander, Barr Lake Station
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies

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[cobirds] Eastern Screen Owls

[Greg Pasquariello]

2 Eastern Screech Owls whinnying tonight in the trees near Amherst and Emerson 
in Englewood.

Regards
-Greg Pasquariello, Highlands Ranch, CO





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[cobirds] Re: Small Tern, Prince Lake 2 Boulder County

[Bob Spencer]

Common Tern at Prince Lake 2

I was able to get another look at the Prince Lake 2 tern (5PM), and was 
able to see a distinct dark carpal-bar, so I believe that it is a Common 
Tern.

Bob Spencer and Sondra Bland, Erie CO

On Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 3:57:56 PM UTC-6, Bob Spencer wrote:
>
> There's a small tern on the west shore of Prince Lake 2 (3:30pm, Sun) with 
> black cap that extends down back of neck that looks like a match for Common 
> Tern or Least Tern, but it looks to be about a 1/3 the size of the nearby 
> Ring bill gulls, so possibly Least Tern?
>
>
>

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[cobirds] Small Tern, Prince Lake 2 Boulder County

[Bob Spencer]

There's a small tern on the west shore of Prince Lake 2 (3:30pm, Sun) with 
black cap that extends down back of neck that looks like a match for Common 
Tern or Least Tern, but it looks to be about a 1/3 the size of the nearby 
Ring bill gulls, so possibly Least Tern?


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[cobirds] Jeff Guy contact information

[Carl Bendorf]

If anyone has an email address for Jeff Guy of Maysville/Salida, I would 
appreciate it if you would private message me.

Thanks!

Carl Bendorf
Longmont

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[cobirds] Re: White Hawk

[kickback]

Cool picture!

Bill Kosar

On Sunday, October 15, 2017 at 8:50:07 AM UTC-6, Greg Miller wrote:
>
>
> 
> Any ideas on an ID of this hawk observed near Montrose, Colorado on July 
> 28, 2017.
>
> Digiscoped from really far away so not perfect focus. Kinda looks like 
> Ferruginous 
> feathered legs Thanks!
>

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[cobirds] White Hawk

[Greg Miller]

Any ideas on an ID of this hawk observed near Montrose, Colorado on July 
28, 2017.

Digiscoped from really far away so not perfect focus. Kinda looks like 
Ferruginous 
feathered legs Thanks!

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[cobirds] Barr Lake Brown Thrasher Saturday

[Chip Clouse]

COBirders,
As Meredith has already posted, the weather shut down the banding station
so the Front Range Birding Company bird walk participants disappointedly
spent a little time looking at stuffed ducks and feeder birds in the
Visitor Center before venturing out on the boardwalk.  We perked up while
looking at the usual suspects out on the lake but then a return trip to the
feeders yielded a handsome, but skulky Brown Thrasher, first spotted by Amy
Cervene. As an eBird "box bird" I thought folks might like to try to refind
it today.

Good birding,
Chip Clouse
Golden

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[cobirds] Colorado Rare Bird Alert, 15 October 2017

[Joyce Takamine]

Compiler:   Joyce Takamine
e-mail:RBA AT cobirds.org
Date:   October 15, 2017

This is the Rare Bird Alert for Sunday, October 15 sponsored by Denver
Field Ornithologists and the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies.

Highlight species include: (* indicates new information on this species)
NOTE:  The RBA is now using the new AOU checklist and the order of families
has changes.

Greater White-fronted Goose (*Denver)
Cackling Goose (Larimer)
Red-necked Grebe (*Arapahoe)
Sandhill Cranes (Baca, Boulder, El Paso, Lincoln, Montrose, Morgan, Rio
Grande)
WHOOPING CRANE (*Otero)
Black-bellied Plover (Larimer, Morgan, Park)
American Golden-Plover (Kiowa, Park)
Semipalmated Plover (Montezuma)
Mountain Plover (Baca)
Sanderling (Kiowa, Pueblo)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (Larimer)
Red Phalarope (Morgan)
Long-tailed Jaeger (Pueblo)
Sabine’s Gull (Arapahoe, Douglas, Jefferson, Pueblo)
Pacific Loon (Moffat)
Cattle Egret (Kiowa)
Broad-winged Hawk (*Boulder, Denver, Grand, Moffat)
Lewis’s Woodpecker (Montrose)
Black Phoebe (Mesa)
Eastern Phoebe (Boulder, Morgan, Weld)
Cassin’s Kingbird widespread in Colorado in recent weeks, eg, (Douglas, El
Paso)
Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay (Kiowa)
Pygmy Nuthatch (Morgan)
Eastern Bluebird (El Paso)
Sage Thrasher (Garfield)
Lapland Longspur (*Larimer)
Chestnut-collared Longspur (Morgan, *Yuma)
 Nashville Warbler (Mesa)
Pine Warbler (Denver)
Clay-colored Sparrow (Jefferson)
Brewer’s Sparrow (*Douglas, Montrose)
Lark Sparrow (Clear Creek)
Swamp Sparrow (Morgan)
White-throated Sparrow (*Montrose, Morgan)
Sagebrush Sparrow (Douglas, Mesa, *Montrose)
Fox Sparrow (La Plata, Larimer)
White-throated Sparrow (Boulder, Larimer, Montezuma, Morgan)

ARAPAHOE COUNTY:
---On October 7 Jonelle Balais and Bruce Cyganowski reported a Sabine’s
Gull at Cherry Creek SP.  On October 10 Bob Righter reported an imm
Sabine’s Gull next to the dam on the west side of Cherry Creek SP.
---On October 14 at Cherry Creek SP, Glenn Walbek reported Red-necked Grebe.

BACA COUNTY:
---On October 10 near Pritchett, Jim Dennis reported 10 Sandhill Cranes.
On October 11 Jim Dennis reported 60 Sandhill Cranes near Pritchett.  On
October 12 Kathy Carroll reported 60 Sandhill Cranes SW of Pritchett.  On
October 12 Jim Dennis reported 30 Sandhill Cranes at Comanche National
Grasslands near Pritchett.
---On October 10 near Walsh, Janeal Thompson reported 102 Mountain Plover
in a field being drilled with wheat.

BOULDER COUNTY:
---On October 8 Luke Pheneger reported fly over juv Broad-winged Hawk, 20+
Sandhill Cranes, and juv While-throated Sparrow at Golden Ponds in Longmont.
---On October 11 Ryan Bushong reported Eastern Phoebe at Warembourgh Open
Space in Louisville.
---On October 14 Peter Burke reported Broad-winged Hawk at Boulder Mountain
Park.

CLEAR CREEK COUNTY:
---On October 3 Roger Linfield reported Lark Sparrow in Empire Town Park.

DENVER COUNTY:
---On October 8 Chris  Brobin reported Broad-winged Hawk at DIA.
---On October 9 Doug Kibbe reported Pine Warbler at Fort Logan National
Cemetery.
---On October 14 at Garland Park Lollipop Lake, Mary Keithler reported
Greater White-fronted Goose.

DOUGLAS COUNTY:
---On October 10 at Chatfield SP Model Airplane Field, Dale Pate reported
Sagebrush Sparrow.
---On October 12 at Chatfield SP Marina’s Sandspit, Doug Kibbe reported
Sabine’s Gull.
---On October 14 at Chatfield SP on DFO Field Trip led by Ed Holub a
Brewer’s Sparrow was seen.

EL PASO COUNTY:
---On October 8 John Bruder reported 3 fly over Sandhill Cranes on Santa Fe
Trail.

GARFIELD COUNTY:
---On October 13 Jo Ann Riggle reported Sage Thrasher at Fravert Reservoir.

GRAND COUNTY:
---On October 8 Steve Weston reported Broad-winged Hawk at Rocky Mt NP
Kawuneeche Visitor Center.

JEFFERSON COUNTY:
---On October 9 at Chatfield SP Swim Beach, David Suddjian reported
Sabine’s Gull.
---On October 8 at South Platte Reservoir access road, David Suddjian
reported 4 Clay-colored Sparrow’s.

KIOWA COUNTY:
---On October 13 at Lower Queens Reservoir, Alan and MaryLynne Ketcham
reported 2 Cattle Egret and 15 Sanderling.
---On October 13 at Queens SWA Check Station, Alan and MarLuynne Ketcham
reported Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay.

LA PLATA COUNTY:
---On October 8 Jason St. Pierre reported 2 Slate-colored Fox Sparrows at
Oxbow Park and Preserve.

LARIMER COUNTY:
---On October 8, David Wade reported Fox Sparrow at Maple & Fishback in
Fort Collins. On October 10 in the morning David Wade reported Red Fox
Sparrow at Maple and Fishback but around noon Wade reported a different Fox
Sparrow a possible intergrade.  On October 11 at Maple and FIshback, David
Wade and John Shenot reported Fox Sparrow.
---On October 8 at Arapahoe Bend Natural Area – Rigden Reservoir (Strauss
Cabin Lake), Amy Davis reported Black-bellied Plover and Semipalmated
Sandpiper.  On October 8 at Arapahoe Bend Naturnal Area, Lori Zabel
reported Black-bellied Plover.  On October 11 at Arapahoe Bend NA, Josh
Bruening reported Black-bellied Plover.
---On 

[cobirds] Boulder Audubon Field Trip to Yuma County

[William H Kaempfer]

Cobirders,

Saturday, I began leading a Boulder Audubon Trip to Wray (home on Sunday).  We 
went directly east on US 36, stopping first at Last Chance where we got our 
first taste of the day's weird weather as fog crept in and enveloped us as we 
birded.  We didn't see much there, so not wanting to squander whatever decent 
weather we might encounter, we continued east.  Beyond Anton, we had several 
hundred Sandhill Cranes scattered along the north side of the highway over 
several miles, but none on the south side!

Our first major stop was  at Fox Ranch.  [Although that this site is a private 
ranch owned and operated by The Nature Conservatory and has restricted access.  
That being said, however, access can be requested and arranged through the 
TNC.]  Soon after disembarking, a loud Red Crossbill started calling and flying 
about.  Two Harris's Sparrows were by the barns and two more were in with a 
large group of White-crowned Sparrows.  Further along we found a Field Sparrow 
and a group of Eastern Bluebirds.  But during our stay the wind had 
continuously increased to the point that it was making birding unproductive.

Nevertheless, we continued on to Pipit Hill by the old Bonny Reservoir.  The 
wind here was howling and Sprague's Pipit eluded us, but there were a few 
Chestnut-collared  Longspurs.  Moving on to Wray, we crossed the stream and 
walked the back trail area at Stalker Lake.  Winds were starting to ease back 
and things were pretty birdy and among our 20-some species at the spot we all 
had good looks at a Hermit Thrush.

Bill Kaempfer
Boulder

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