Dear Cobirders,
I headed up to Nelson Rd. and Hwy 36 to look for Todd's large Falcon
this morning, but wasn't able to find it. I swung by Lagerman
Reservoir on the way back and spotted a Northern Harrier sitting on
the shore apparently eating buds off of a low plant. Lagerman is
totally frozen and it looks like a coyote or something took care of
the previously frozen-in Goose. There were a few American Kestrels
and an odd looking Ferruginous Hawk harassing a Red-tailed Hawk. The
unusual hawk was, size-wise perfect for Ferruginous Hawk, and had the
white along the base of the outer primaries, visible on the upper
wing, (the "wing-comma"), however it had a white base to it's tail
with a thick, dark terminal band to the tail. The underside of the
wings was snow white and essentially unmarked. I guess it could have
been a sub-adult bird.
Given Lagerman's frozen state, I headed over to Thomas Reservoir in
Erie to look at loafing Gulls. The numbers are impressive and the
observation distance is ideal. There were about half-a-dozen Herring
Gulls, what looked good for a juvenile Thayer's Gull, a few California
and many Ring-billed Gulls. Rounding out the bunch was an adult (or
very close to it) Lesser Black-backed Gull. Just before I left,
something in the open lot just north of the Thomas Reservoir sounded
tantalizingly like Lapland Longspurs, but I wasn't able to find a
single bird.
Cheers,
Walter Szeliga
Boulder, CO
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