Greetings All
I birded the "Latham Area" and then from Ault to Windsor today. Water is breaking up. The N Weld Co Landfill gulls are loafing in big numbers at Black Hollow, and this should only improve as the ice breaks up a bit more.. and Drake Lake as well (these areas are just w. of Ault) Windsor Reservoir has small areas that are open and stuffed with Mallards and White-cheeked Geese plus a few Snows, on Greater WF Goose, a couple hybrids (Canada and Cackling x Snow) and a Graylag x Canada. There was also a Mallard x American Wigeon there. No rarities involving "pure" species. Windsor Lake had a nice sprinkling of gulls, including a first cycle Mew Gull. Beyond body, head, and bill size/shape, note the more uniform wing coverts and paler tertials The southern end of L Latham is breaking up, but birds hard to see unless you are lucky (like today) and have no heat waves or wind. Nothing rare there that I could find. Loloff and WCR 59 ponds are frozen solid, but a Marsh Wren pished up out of WCR 59 ponds.. I rarely find them in winter in Weld. There is a tiny bit of open water at Stewarts and the area around Behrens Res, and I expect both of these to become quite good in the next week or so if the weather stays clement. Good Birding 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/152f1e1b7e6-4803-8d02%40webprd-m76.mail.aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
