I hate to sound like a broken record, but I wanted to pass along that the Least Bittern was seen again this morning at Cottonwood Hollow, this time by Roger Linfield and myself around 7am this morning. Roger spotted it initially flying from south to north across the pond, and I managed to see that it flew somewhere into the east side of the pond north of the spit and just a couple stone's throws from Prospect Rd.
We looked for it along that east side for the next 15-20 minutes to no avail, before Roger had to leave for work. I was still determined though to find it, because I really really wanted to get good looks at this species that I had never seen well before. I went back to the spit and scanned a while more, and eventually found the bird posed rather cryptically in the same general area mentioned by Rachel Hopper in her note about a week ago, up fairly high in a willow tree near the water. I got the scope on it and got really killer looks at the bird. I agree entirely with Roger (who noted the plumage contrast in flight) and Rachel who called this bird an adult male, and completely disagree with myself from 2 days ago, when I said I didn't see much contrast in the plumage when the bird was in flight. Then again, maybe there's 2 Least Bitterns in the pond.... -- Eric DeFonso Fort Collins, CO --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
