COBirders, I dropped by McIntosh Lake at 2:45 Saturday afternoon to scan for gulls and my son wanted to try again fro Bald Eagles. No Bald Eagles, but plenty of gulls (not my son's favorite by any means). While doing a quick scan, there was a behemoth of a gull on the northeast side of the lake. It willingly moved to the southwest side of the lake where it flew right by us at close range (30 ft). The bird was a very lightly colored 1st/2nd CY Glaucous Gull. Bi-colored beak, pink legs, very light creamy brown, nearly white primaries (actually darker than its brownish back color), scalloping all over the body and tail except for the one or two tail feathers which were creamy white like the primaries. I think because of the replaced tail feathers, this likely makes the bird a 2nd CY, but I just don't have enough knowledge to truly answer that question.
Other than that gull, there wasn't anything else super interesting that I detected in my very quick scan of the lake. Bryan Guarente Instructional Designer The COMET Program University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Boulder, 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.
