I visited Park Co from late morning to early afternoon, adding a bundle of eBird checklists for an other week that had been without any complete checklists. I encountered several species of interest for Park in winter, or in good numbers for that county, but I think the only rarity of broader interest was 4 *White-winged Crossbills *at Alma.
At home in Jefferson County the *Cassin's Finches* visiting my feeders swelled to about 50 individuals today. The *Golden-crowned Sparrow* was at Red Rocks Trading Post, and three *Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches* were on the rock slope there during my visit. South Platte Reservoir has been the only body of open water in the area for a while now, other than the South Platte River itself. The reservoir's Arapahoe portion is mostly open water with an ice shelf, while the Jeffco corner is frozen. There are nice gull flocks there and numbers into the 1000s on some late afternoons, presumably roosting. Species noted on some of the last several days have included *Lesser Black-backed*, *Thayer's* and *Glaucous*. When I visited today the flock was still smallish (low 100s), as it was before the arrival of most roosting birds. But there was an adult *Mew Gull* in the flock. And a *Peregrine Falcon* came barreling through a scattered all the gulls. I imagine they came back. Two male *Barrow's Goldeneyes* were also present. David Suddjian Littleton, CO -- 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/CAGj6RopqiCT3Y2R8%2BUzLPUr60FvBLCFM-1Dd1EY6WST-Lr8ZZg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
