Linked to album for larger views ... http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/albums/view/59/landfill-larimer
Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org On Monday, December 9, 2019 at 8:57:49 AM UTC-7, The "Nunn Guy" wrote: > > Apparently the photo did not take first go around ... > > [image: Gyrs.PNG] > > > On Monday, December 9, 2019 at 8:54:06 AM UTC-7, The "Nunn Guy" wrote: >> >> Hi all/Derek >> >> First four birds shown here are from this year's bird. The circled three >> at bottom are photos of last year's bird. >> >> Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn >> http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org >> >> >> >> On Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 9:37:47 AM UTC-7, Derek Hill wrote: >>> >>> No Gyrfalcon sighting from 8:30-10:00am yesterday 8 December. At least 5 >>> other cars of seekers were spotted, including a cool gyrfalcon license >>> plate. A small number of Red-tails and Kestrels were in the area, and a >>> flyby Prairie Falcon was near CR 57 and Taft Hill Road nearby two days >>> previous. >>> >>> Scoping the gulls from west Trilby yesterday, at least one or two adult >>> Lesser Black-backed were obvious both in flight and on the geound, as well >>> as at least one first-year Iceland type. The silvery wingtips and uniform >>> pale brown-gray plumage were visible, and even at rest, the primaries were >>> concolorous with the upperparts. I guess a pale Thayers type or possibly >>> Kumleini. One of these days I'll drive into the landfill proper and study >>> the gulls up close. >>> >>> Good luck to all who chase the legendary Gyrfalcon. It seems to wander >>> quite unpredictably. >>> >>> Also, in the series of photos linked by G. Lefko recently, is this >>> supposed to be the same bird/date in the series of photos? In particular, >>> images 5-8 appear very different in underparts plumage from image 3. Hard >>> to reconcile this as a matter of image exposure. >>> >>> Image 3: >>> >>> http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/albums/photos/view/59/542/gyrfalcon >>> >>> Image 5: >>> >>> http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/albums/photos/view/59/2270/gyrfalcon >>> >>> Good birding, >>> Derek Hill >>> Loveland >>> >>> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/f8a9c00d-23ec-4406-a0b1-1afcafa7bc05%40googlegroups.com.
