At 8 AM today I arrived on the south shore of Jumbo Reservoir (Logan County), picked up my glasses to scan and in the first field of view spotted the Yellow-billed Loon that Cole Wild found yesterday (THANKS, Cole). In fact it was not too far away and was the only bird on the south half of the lake, so it stuck out like a sore loon. In order to thaw out, I drove farther east and had a Brown Creeper in the Ovid woods and a Golden-crowned Kinglet in the Julesberg cemetery. By the time I got back to look at the north side of Jumbo at noon, I was treated to the sight of a very large flock of Snow Geese with the usual sprinkling of Blue phase Snows and Ross's Geese admixed. All of these had arrived just before I got there the locals said. I perforned a perfunctory count and thought that there might have been 5,000 Snow geese, plus or minus a couple of thousand. Lots of geese. By that time the Yellow-billed Loon was close to the little peninsula that juts out from the dam, on the east side. (Sedgwick County). En route home I stopped at the pond near Morgan County 2 and AA, which Cole described yesterday. There were only 16 ducks and a few coots on the lake and one of the ducks was the Long-tailed Duck. It seemed to have moved about ten feet left of where Cole spotted it yesterday. :) Thanks, again! Jackson Reservoir itself was pretty tame. Joe Roller, Denver
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