Kay, Thanks for the information. After looking at the pictures, I'm reasonably sure the bird is the same as the light morph Harlan's we viewed last Friday (12-6-13). Glad to see it has returned.
Mike Henwood Presently in Grand Junction Mesa County On Dec 8, 2013, at 11:28 AM, Kay Niyo <k...@kayniyo.com> wrote: > http://www.kayniyo.com/birds_raptor_vulture.htm (Half way down the page) > > Recall that last year on the Marston CBC we had a light morph Harlan's > Red-tailed Hawk, Colorado Academy, Denver Co., CO, Marston CBC, 15 Dec 2012 > that was confirmed by Brian Wheeler. > > And check out Lee Farrell's favorite Chatfield-vicinity dark morph > red-tailed photo and article in the January Lark Bunting at > http://dfobirders.org/wordpress/denver-field-ornithologists/lark-bunting-dfo > -monthly-newsletter/ ! > > Same birds? Who knows?! > > Kay > > Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D. > Niyo Scientific Communications > 5651 Garnet St. > Golden, CO 80403 > 303.679.6646 > k...@kayniyo.com; www.KayNiyo.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: cobirds@googlegroups.com [mailto:cobirds@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > Of Michael Henwood > Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 8:04 AM > To: cobirds@googlegroups.com > Cc: Robert Raker > Subject: [cobirds] Light Morph Harlan's Hawk - Jeffco > > On Friday after visiting Red Rocks, Michael Kiessig, Rob Raker and I > visited South Platte Park just north of C470 and the S.Platte River. On the > drive over we observed a dark Harlan's Hawk on the west side of C470 between > Quincy and Belleview. Most winters there has been a Harlan's seen in this > area. At S. Platte Park we observed 9 Greater Scaup in the pond closest to > C470 and the S. Platte River. We also got a glimpse of a skittish Harlan's > Hawk which appeared to be a light morph. Clean white underneath with a > uniform dark back. The head had quite a bit of white in the area of the > supercilium and crown, while the tail was a dusky white with just a touch of > rufous above the grayish tail band. > > Perhaps some of our talented photographers could get some photos of this > wary Harlan's, so it could be studied in greater detail. The light morph is > very rare among Harlan's. > > Mike Henwood > Grand Junction, Mesa County > presently visiting Jefferson County > > -- > 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/6842BF80-1689-4991-9B31-15F8C0EDC7 > D5%40aol.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/25225EE1-28DE-463F-A78B-49FA692C54F3%40aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
