Hi all
Yesterday's big wind did "the business" at Spring Park Reservoir and transformed the ice conditions from 85% frozen to 85% open water! Much of the ice is piled in big heaps along the shore and promontories towards the north end. The NE arm is still mainly frozen. The duck numbers are increasing steadily.. (there are over 1000 ducks already) but not a single shorebird or hirundine yet.. this evening's highlights included 66+Barrow's Goldeneyes 1 Red-breasted Merganser (drake) In addition (in some semblance of decreasing order of abundance) Green-winged Teal Common Goldeneye Mallard Gadwall Ring-necked Duck American Wigeon Canada Geese Bufflehead Common Merganser Lesser Scaup Northern Shoveler No sign however of last Friday's stunning male Northern Harrier. Nearby I watched two Beavers feeding at dusk, close to the car, and at different private locations I heard two Northern Saw-whet Owls (of which I saw one) Early from our house there were Pinyon Jays at our feeders 4 Yellow-headed Blackbirds 2 Lincoln's Sparrows still an Osprey on a pole overlooking the old sewage ponds (now a solar power plant) - guess it was reminiscing ? Good birding all Dick Filby Carbondale, Garfield County -- 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.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
