Dark ibis have been around Florence and the Canon City area in fairly low numbers so far this year but I found a flock of over a hundred on Thursday. In the flock was a bird with blue lines framing it's eyes and the eyes looked dark in my spotting scope. However, when I enlarged the photos I could see that the blue lines continued, though only thinly, behind the eyes and the eyes had a reddish caste so a probable hybrid Glossy X White-faced Ibis.
The last 3 days have been excellent numbers and diversity of waterbirds and shorebirds in the Florence area. I found 45+ yellowlegs (mostly Lesser but at least 8 Greater) in one flooded field on Thursday with most continuing yesterday and many still around today. In that same flooded field were 1 Long-billed Dowitcher, 3 Wilson's Phalarope and more than 10 American Pipit. The Grisenti gravel pit pond (the one north of the BLM's Blue Heron ponds on H115 north of Florence) had 5 Snowy Egrets Thursday while the Holcim Wetlands had an additional Snowy plus a Great Egret.. Today there was an adult Black-crowned Night-Heron in Florence River Park when I was there plus I found 3 Least Sandpipers on the Arkansas River. I also found 2-3 first of the year Cattle Egrets in a flooded field in the area. I have posted photos of the probable hybrid ibis on my Birds and Nature blog<http://birdsandnature.blogspot.com/>and will get some nice photos of the Cattle Egret up soon (and post about Canon City birds too) SeEtta Moss Canon City Personal blog @ http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com Blogging for Birds an Blooms Magazine @ http://BirdsAndBloomsBlog.com Some to many of these may have been pushed in by the upslope storm on Wednesday/Wednesday night. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
