Hi all Turns out the aforementioned Forster's Tern are actually Caspian Tern, thanks Nick K., "size of Ring-billed Gull".
Thanks, Gary Lefko, Nunn http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/ https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/birds-and-more-of-the-pawnee-national-grassland On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 9:42:03 AM UTC-6 The Nunn Guy wrote: > > Hi all > > Two WhatBirder participants posted "Glaucous Gull" for my mysterious gull. > > https://forums.whatbird.com/index.php?/topic/18194-large-whitish-gull-id/ > > Thanks, Gary Lefko, Nunn > http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/ > > https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/birds-and-more-of-the-pawnee-national-grassland > > > > On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 9:12:05 AM UTC-6 The Nunn Guy wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> The Colorado Birding Challenge <https://cobirds.org/CFO/CoBC/> is >> rapidly approaching. Our team name is "Friends of the Pawnee National >> Grassland" and we'll be scouring Weld County birds for the event. I went >> out this weekend to scout birds (and locations) in area. I got 77 species >> with highlights being: >> >> - Tundra/Trumpeter Swan - 2 (Loloff Reservoir)--loaded more photos to >> help with ID >> - Long-billed Curlew - 15 (Antelope Reservoir) present Sat and Sun. >> As you approach Antelope Reservoir from the south on CR 37, just before >> CR >> 92 easterly turn, they are on west side of CR 37 in field >> - Forster's Tern - 5 (Kyger Open Space) >> - Mysterious "white or pale-looking, large gull" (*need ID help*,* >> see photos below*) (Kyger Open Space) >> - Swainson's Hawk - 3 (Beebe Draw, as usual one atop "Swainson's Hawk >> telephone pole" at CR 42/47 :-) ) >> - Sage Thrasher singing up a storm on CR 41 btw 100/102 (video on >> homepage below) >> - Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1, Black-crowned Night Heron - 3 (Glenmere >> Park) >> - Least Sandpiper - 4 (Crom Lake) >> - Both longspurs (CR 45 btw 112/114) >> - Sandhill Crane - 23 (Cozzens Lake on shore) >> - Willet, White-faced Ibis (dozen or so), Long-billed Dowitcher (1-2 >> dozen), and Baird's Sandpiper (Stewart's Pond) >> >> Photos: >> http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/albums/view/219/2021-colorado-birding-challenge-weld >> >> Along Lower Latham marsh the cattails and taller grasses are all >> flattened to ground because of weight of snow from blizzard few weeks ago. >> It is silent and devoid of birds--assume because habitat not showing any >> signs of resilience yet? Didn't see or hear any expected birds: >> Red-wingeds, Yellow-heads, Marsh Wren, ducks, gulls >> >> Thanks, Gary Lefko, Nunn >> http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/ >> >> https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/birds-and-more-of-the-pawnee-national-grassland >> > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en?hl=en * All posts should be signed with the poster's full name and city. Include bird species and location in the subject line when appropriate * Join Colorado Field Ornithologists https://cobirds.org/CFO/Membership/ --- 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/3c5668e8-6710-428d-9ca7-2a8bd99c6c24n%40googlegroups.com.
