All, >From 2:00 - 3:15 this afternoon, I visited South Platte Reservoir (about 15 minutes), and Eaglewatch Lake (basically, main lake north of the bathrooms next to the middle parking lot of South Platte Res park. I took pictures of a very cooperative common loon in the SE corner of the reservoir.
While there were no rarities on Eaglewatch Lake, I felt the variety of waterbirds deserved listing: Ruddy duck Common goldeneye Pied-billed Grebe Gadwall Canada goose Cackling goose Mallard Bufflehead Common merganser Hooded merganser American coot Wood duck Western Grebe Norther shoveler On the pond just north of the blind (don't know the name of this one), I added: Northern pintail American Wigeon Green-winged teal Belted kingfisher (calling) It's not often that I see 18 species of waterbirds in just over an hour! Unfortunately, no scoters... Bryan Arnold Jefferson County, 5,500' -- 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 cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/0fc6b1a8-846b-41b2-8335-42e7cdbda176%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
