Birders, I checked out Jumbo today after reading the posts of the Prather's. When I arrived about 11:30 am, one of the first birds I saw was the adult Glaucous Gull. I did see another later though I can't be sure it wasn't the same bird (it was flying by). There were perhaps 10,000 to 15,000 white geese and very few WF Geese. As the day progressed, and by the time I left at 3 pm, there must have been at least 30,000 white geese. It was amazing. I did find several hundred WF Geese at the NW corner of the reservoir hanging out with at least 1000 Cackling Geese.
I didn't find the Lesser Black-backed Gull but it is a big place. Hundreds of gulls, dabblers and divers, were picking some kind of bug off the water at the east end. It was a feeding frenzy of sorts. The list: White geese: >30,000 WF Geese > 300 Cackling Geese > 1,000 Barrow's Goldeneye 1 male Glaucous Gull: at least 1. Horned Grebe: 2 (1 alternate, 1 basic) Many dabblers and divers Ira Sanders [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Join us at the 2009 Convention in Alamosa: http://cfo-link.org/convention/index.php You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
