In reaction to SeEtta's initial post Susan and I shot down to Holcim wetlands Friday afternoon and saw the Tricolored heron at about 6 PM and we got a few pictures. Cool bird. http://www.avoapples.com/birds/IMG_9324_cr.jpg http://www.avoapples.com/birds/IMG_9325_cr.jpg http://www.avoapples.com/birds/IMG_9327_cr.jpg Bill Kosar Colorado Springs [email protected]
On Friday, June 14, 2013 11:03:53 PM UTC-6, SeEtta wrote: > I drove back to Holcim Wetlands this evening to look for the Least Bittern > I believe I saw this morning and try to get a photo of the TRICOLORED HERON > using my 400 mm telephoto lens instead of my 70-300. I ran into a local > birder and his son who is also an avid birder. They had seen the heron and > ran into a birding couple who also saw it before it flew across the > wetlands. In our discussion they asked if there were 2 TRICOLORED HERONS > as they thought they had seen 2-- to which I blithely responded "no" and > something to the effect this is too rare a species here to have more than > one. After they left I spotted the TRICOLORED HERON fly into the distant > edge of the reeds and disappear down into them. Then I spotted the 3 > Black-crowned Night-Herons and walked towards where they flew to try to get > a better look to get the age of all three when I saw the silhouette (now > after 8 pm and getting dark) of a water bird that had a very large bill. > It was a TRICOLORED HERON and it was quite a distance from where I had > watched a TRICOLORED HERON fly to. I had been watching this area and had > not seen this heron fly in from the other location. So did I miss the one > TRICOLORED HERON fly over or could there two of these rarities?? > > By the way I saw the Green Heron again tonight--it was perched on a > distant long log with a Great Blue Heron on one end and a Black-crowned > Heron (originally thought this was the TRICOLORED) on the other end with > the Green Heron in between. Nice birds today. > > SeEtta Moss > Canon City > Personal blog @ http://BirdsAndNature.blogspot.com > Blogging for Birds an Blooms Magazine @ http://BirdsAndBloomsBlog.com > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/8da109a1-0b15-449a-a389-e49462453316%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
