Folks- I wrapped up a pretty cool day of waterfowling by scanning a large raft of Common Mergansers at al. offshore from the North Marina at Chatfield. My dad Jim had seen the long-lingering young Pomarine Jaeger in the area earlier in the day so after ogling the Atlantic Brant pair by the model airplane field I headed over. After a while I found the scoundrel in the melee of about 1000 Common Mergansers, handfulls of assorted grebes & diving ducks, and a few hundred gulls (mostly Ring-billed but some Herring, a few California, the young Glaucous and a 1st-winter Lesser Black-backed.) With the wind picking up from the east, I was able to get a line of popcorn to drift out from the rocks below the north Marina picnic tables, attracting a good mob of gulls. The jaeger came over to investigate, scattering the gulls as it made a few close passes in the darkening sky before it headed back out to the protein fest in deeper water.
Thanks to everyone today for the calls & email updates. Pretty great early winter season birding we are having! Enjoy- Bill Schmoker, Longmont -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ | Bill Schmoker | | [email protected] | | http://schmoker.org | | http://brdpics.blogspot.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.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
