Sorry, forgot signature. Good Birding, Jack Bushong, Louisville, CO On Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 7:09:50 PM UTC-6, Jack Bushong wrote: > > Hi, > Today my brother and I visited Walden Ponds in search of the heron/egret, > and found a bird that has characteristics that seem to support a Little > Blue Heron. The legs are definitively yellow, and the bill is bicolored > (flesh pink and black). It was with a dispersed flock of Snowy Egrets > resting on a spit of gravel and sand very near the boardwalk at Cottonwood > Marsh. The birds flushed some time later due to the arrival of an adult > Bald Eagle, but would presume they did not stray far. > Link to image of heron: https://flic.kr/p/XwTNw7 > > On Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 3:04:56 PM UTC-6, Jeff Parks wrote: >> >> Hey all - >> >> I went to Walden Ponds this morning to see if I could relocate some birds >> that I saw out there recently. I was not able to find them, unfortunately >> (the Flycatcher and Mockingbird/Shrike). I had a nice walk anyway, saw a >> few deer along with the usual birdy suspects. There were a bunch of Snowy >> Egrets on Cottonwood Marsh when I arrived, so when I finally made my way >> around to Bass Pond and saw another one, I didn't think much of it. While >> I was examining it, however, it had some things that made me think that it >> was not another Snowy. The legs and feet were a greenish color, and the >> bill was not as dark as a Snow's bill should have been. I watched it for a >> little while until some people with a dog came along and it flew off. >> Shortly thereafter, I stopped to talk to another birder, and she mentioned >> that she and several other people had seen a juvenile Little Blue Heron at >> Walden within the last week or so. It took me a minute to make the >> connection, but I was fairly certain that the bird I had seen would fit >> that description. I didn't see exactly where the bird had flown off, so I >> decided against traipsing around the entire property again in search of one >> bird. >> >> When I got home, I looked at recent eBird postings from Walden, and as >> luck would have it, Willem Van Vliet was out there yesterday, and took a >> picture of what he identified as a Great Egret. You can see his picture on >> his eBird posting from yesterday here: WvV's eBird list from August 15th >> <http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38665112>. >> >> Take a look and see what you think, is this a Little Blue Heron, or a >> Great Egret? I am leaning towards LBHE based on what I saw (assuming that >> this is the same bird). If it is indeed a LBHE, I probably should have >> made a second trip around, but it was getting past time for lunch, and my >> feet were tired. >> >> Other birds of interest were a group of seven Northern Shovelers, three >> Cinnamon Teal (larger beaks than Blue-Winged), and five Semipalmated >> Sandpipers. The Ospreys on the back pond are about ready to leave the >> nest, the adults were pretty busy bringing fish to feed the young ones. >> >> Good birding - >> >> Jeff Parks >> Boulder >> >> >>
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