Scanned the gull flocks in and around Windsor this afternoon and nothing but the regulars. Agreed, nice photos!
-- Christopher Taylor Marina del Rey, CA http://kiwifoto.com/ On Sunday, February 14, 2016, DAVID A LEATHERMAN <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Tried for the Iceland Gull and Lbb Gull late this morning (2/14) at > Windsor Lake and only saw ring-bills and Herring. Your photos of the > Iceland were beautiful. > > Dave Leatherman > Fort Collins > > ------------------------------ > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 11:19:47 -0500 > From: [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > To: [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > Subject: [cobirds] Yesterday: Morgan and Weld: ICELAND GULL > > Greetings > > Water, water, wherefore art thou o' open water? > > Despite frozen reservoir, David Dowell and I had excellent birding > yesterday > Jackson Reservoir had a scattering of low-level rarities including > Mountain Bluebird, YR Warbler, and WT Sparrow. Among swirling flocks of > Cackling/Canada Geese in cornfields there was a Snow x Canada Goose hybrid. > The state parks was filled with hundreds of robins, dozens of juncos and > Blue Jays (>60), 30+ Cedar Waxwings, an nice smattering of goldfinches, > etc. > One field to the south of the reservoir has dense long bent weeds. This > field has been filled with sparrows for months, as it was yesterday with > nearly 500 WC Sparrows and one WT Sparrow. Oddly, there were no tree > sparrows or Song Sparrows. A Prairie Merlin and a Northern Harrier perused > the field for lunch. > > Linn Grove Cemetery in Greeley was nearly birdless, though the > cross-the-road pond a decent variety of ducks > > Seeley Reservoir had some open water and a nice variety of waterfowl. > > Windsor Lake was frozen. But there were a number of dead fish and ?dead > waterfowl? stuck in ice. Feeding there was an adult ICELAND GULL and juv > LBB GULL, a smattering of Herring and RB Gulls, a few Bald Eagles and Crows > > Near Severance there was a very early (?) or wintering (?) SAY'S PHOEBE. > > Photos of Iceland Gull are the first three in my photostream on Flickr: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/36088296@N08/ > > Cheers > Steve Mlodinow > Longmont 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] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cobirds%[email protected]');>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/152e094b141-35d5-14e8a%40webprd-a44.mail.aol.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/152e094b141-35d5-14e8a%40webprd-a44.mail.aol.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > 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] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cobirds%[email protected]');>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/SNT148-W70F283BBB3C69AC8B9DD88C1AB0%40phx.gbl > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/SNT148-W70F283BBB3C69AC8B9DD88C1AB0%40phx.gbl?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAHt218LSizYOPpGtHr_kzPAVxgvZ2sFWUML3BqW3dD3yowyzvg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
