A hearty second to that! I was on the receiving end of one of those
calls (from Ira Sanders) which resulted in my wife and I scooting down
to Chatfield to have a look. Having missed the gull at the sandspit
(and thanks a bunch, Doug, for pointing out that I could get a gadwall
as consolation prize. I shouldn't have bought your book today, but I
did. I should have insisted that you tell Amazon to give me a
discount!), we tried multiple locations around the reservoir without
success. Dopey me! Don't look for the bird- look for the birders. I
finally located a flock (mainly via the stork-like pesence of Steve S.)
and they in turn told me that the bird had left ten minutes before.
Fortunately, they were kidding and no actual mayhem was necessary.
So, thanks to all CO birders for your sense of community!
Norm Lewis
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From: Glenn and Laurie <[email protected]>
To: cobirds <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, Jun 2, 2011 5:33 pm
Subject: Re: [cobirds] More Western Gull photos -- from this morning
Nice pics Brandon! Had I known you had 459 Colorado birds, I wouldn't
have called you ;- )
I am glad you said thanks to Loch, since I have not. Loch ran to grab
his scope to study a GULL, a huge step for him. Even better, he
determined the bird had a yellow orbital ring. This shifted our
thinking from Slaty-backed Gull to Western Gull, so thanks indeed!
Let me make one more comment about Colorado birders in general.
Following the discovery and ID, everyone standing on the sandspit who
had seen this bird to his/her satisfaction, spent the rest of his/her
time trying to notify everyone in their address book. Dozens and
dozens of phone calls and text messages were made to everyone we could
think of. I thought that was pretty cool!
Glenn Walbek
Castle Rock, CO
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