Greetings All,
Sorry for the delayed report, but got home late last night and was at work early this morning. Tim Smart and I headed out for NE Colorado yesterday. No Megas, but a good day of birding, with several uncommon-rare species and HUGE numbers at Jackson and Jumbo Reservoirs. High number tallies are as follows: JACKSON RES Cackling Geese: 7000 Canada Geese: 1000 Mallard: 7500 Common Merganser: 210 Herring Gull: 302 (yes, counted by ones...) LITTLE JUMBO (aka Red Lion SWA) Cackling Goose: 12,500 Canada Goose: 2000 parvipes and 350 moffitti/maxima JUMBO RES: Mallard: 27,000 Snow Goose: 33,500 Ross's Goose: 1500 Tasty sightings for the day included JACKSON: Barrow's Goldeneye (1 male) Thayer's Gull (11: 9 adults, 2 imms) Lesser Black-backed Gull (ad and 3rd year) Glaucous Gull (imm) White-winged Junco (1) Common Grackle (2) LITTLE JUMBO: adult Ross's x Snow Goose (1) JUMBO: imm Ross's x Snow Goose (1) G White-fronted Goose (2) Again, we remained Snowy Owl free -- I can only find 'em if I can find a bunch of birders staring at 'em. Longspur and lark numbers dramatically down from a month ago. Great day, windless, sunny. Fabulous visibility. Thanks to Tim for his tireless counting. Good Birding Steven Mlodinow Longmont CO -- 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.
