On Sunday, March 3, 2013 11:21:42 PM UTC-7, Steven Mlodinow wrote: > > Today Cathy Sheeter, David Dowell and I played Reservoir Roulette. > Little Jumbo was partially open, and had a few hundred white geese upon it. > > Jumbo Jumbo Reservoir was mostly an ice cube, with about <5% of the > water open, mostly in the ne. corner. Entertainingly, they opened the > reservoir for boating today, which probably explained the confused look on > the faces of some people we encountered there today. > > In the ne. corner of Big Jumbo, in Sedgwick County, there were several > thousand Snow Geese and a few Ross's Geese present, including a SNOW x > ROSS'S GOOSE. Also, we had our first SANDHILL CRANE for the year there. > > N Sterling Reservoir was a pleasant surprise, about 80% open. High winds > and long distances prevented us from working most of the gulls, but we did > have a first year GREATER BLACK-BACKED GULL, 3 LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS > and TWO THAYER'S GULLS. Along the edge of the south boat launch, we > encountered a flock of 65 or so COMMON REDPOLLS that included 3 HOARY > REDPOLLS (photos to be posted soon) - 2 males and a female. Perhaps more > unusual was the CARROTPOLL, found by Cathy, a male Common in which the red > was replaced by a carrot-orange. Here's to living like a vegetable. > > At some random creek near the reservoir, we had a (presumably) early > migrant American Pipit. And scattered all about N Sterling Res, like so > many robins, were 160 or so Bald Eagles. > > Finally, we visited the next ice cube, aka Prewitt Reservoir. At the far > sw end of Prewitt, in WA county, there were a reasonable number of geese > and ducks in the mud (Prewitt is by far the least filled of the reservoirs > visited today), including nearly 500 G White-fronted Geese. > > Other notes of interest were 50 or so G White-fronted Geese at Jumbo and > N Sterling Res, a Common Grackle in Crook, and a Sandhill Crane along the > highway just e. of Crook. > > I gather that the American White Pelicans from Prewitt a couple weeks > ago had departed along with the open water, perhaps going to Panama Res?? > > Good Birding > Steven Mlodinow > Longmont CO > > > > >
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