Well done Polly!
On Sunday, December 6, 2020 at 3:01:19 PM UTC-7 Polly Wren wrote: > Hello birders, > > As the day was so beautiful and calm, Paul and I decided to walk around > Martin Lake at Lathrop State Park. It was dead quiet all around the lake. > No sparrows, chickadees, bushtits, flickers, robins, solitaires, > scrub-jays, nuthatches, woodpeckers...it was weird. > > We did have one Black-billed Magpie > A handful of Ravens on the ice > A whopping 2 Dark-eyed Juncos > 1 Bald Eagle on the ice > 1 Red-tailed Hawk > > There was a good assortment of waterfowl...but just the usual suspects... > Common Goldeneye > Mallard > Canada Geese > Common and Hooded Merganser > Gadwall > Redhead > Bufflehead > American Wigeon > Pied-billed and Clarkâs/Western Grebe > Amongst a large grouping of Ring-billed Gulls we noticed one very > dark-backed gull. When it finally lifted its head and eventually stood > up...we were able to see the pale eye, with dense streaking around the eye. > Bright yellow bill with red dot...it even yawned and allowed us to see its > bright red-orange gape. It was slightly larger than the nearby Ring-Billed > Gulls. Bright yellow legs make us confident it was *Lesser Black-Backed > Gull! * I have some verrrrry distant poor shots. This is a rare bird for > us down this far South and in the back of beyond. It turned out the be the > bird of the day. > > > Paul and Polly Neldner > La Veta, CO > From Polly's iPad > -- 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/4c8658ee-74b0-4cfb-9b83-a0d6e2dd83bdn%40googlegroups.com.
