Hi all There's a chance the Iceland Gull could be at Black Hollow Reservoir--I went by there on Sunday and there were hundreds and hundreds of gulls on icy shoreline at north end of the reservoir. Requires a great scope.
Thanks, Gary http://coloradobirder.ning.com/ Mobile: http://coloradobirder.ning.com/m On Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 9:19:54 AM UTC-7, Steven Mlodinow wrote: > > 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]. 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/fd52f4fa-5c3d-4652-9a8a-3ab9eed00ce2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
