Several of us (David Dowell, Dick Schottler, Kathy Mihm-Dunning, Charlie Lawrence, Dean Shoup, Nana Torres, Alec Hopping and I) went up to northeast Colorado today. A BEAUTIFUL day on the plains with the morning breeze abating by late morning.
One of our stops was Prewitt Reservoir. The reservoir is still 70%+ frozen (thinly), but the gulls were many. There is a shad die-off that the gulls are picking out of the ice (the shad died and were frozen into the ice during the latest freeze we had last week). Today we found: Herring Gull Ring-billed Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 adult Iceland Gull - 1 adult Glaucous Gull - 1 (likely 2) 1st winter birds Glaucous-winged Gull - 1 - 1st winter - Possibly a hybrid, but mostly(?) Glaucous-winged Gull? ~900 Greater White-fronted Goose at the small pond on US6 at Washington County Road R. North Sterling Reservoir (Logan County) was almost completely open with 99 Bald Eagles present and a number of American White Pelicans...as well as about 15,000+ Snow/Ross's Goose (seen at close range from the south boat launch). Jumbo Reservoir still completely frozen...but not for long! :-) Joey Kellner Littleton, Colorado -- 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/000301d05a20%24dec1a3b0%249c44eb10%24%40net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
