Chris Wood, Jessie Barry and I birded NE Colorado. Interesting that there were NO white geese (an almost no geese of any kind) at Jumbo Reservoir! Waterfowl in general were noticeably lacking at all reservoirs including, Jumbo, Sterling and Prewitt Reservoirs, Loloff Reservoir and the ponds on Weld County 59, EVEN Lower Latham! Some selected highlights included:
Jumbo Reservoir: Yellow-billed Loon – 1 imm still present Pacific Loon – 1 Prewitt Reservoir: Pacific Loon – 4! Lower Latham Reservoir: - See the report below for our Lower Latham results (there are a few REALLY nice sightings included in the list below). This report was produced by eBird. It’s easy to enter your records and be able to produce trip lists such as these. PLUS your sightings have meaning to 1) you (you can produce histograms and other reports of your records…pretty cool), 2) other birders, 3) researchers 4) posterity and 5) ??? I challenge you to enter your next trip(s) into eBird at http://ebird.org and see what it can do for you! Joey Kellner Littleton, CO Location: Lower Latham Reservoir Observation date: 11/27/09 Notes: Our last stop of the day was highlighted by several great birds including a very late American Bittern, an early Glaucous Gull and several Short-eared Owls. OBSERVERS: Chris Wood, Jessie Barry and Joey Kellner. WEATHER: Calm. 80% clear with some high clouds. 45 - 53F. Number of species: 34 Cackling Goose 225 Canada Goose 150 Gadwall 20 American Wigeon 20 Mallard 175 Northern Shoveler 35 Northern Pintail 5 Green-winged Teal (American) 2 Common Goldeneye 75 Common Merganser 70 Red-breasted Merganser 1 Adult male. Ring-necked Pheasant 1 AMERICAN BITTERN 1 ***Late. Jessie spotted one that flew up out of the canal and landed in the marsh (about 445). Bald Eagle 2 Two adults. Northern Harrier 7 Red-tailed Hawk 3 Rough-legged Hawk 1 Adult male. American Kestrel 1 Virginia Rail 2 Heard grunting. American Coot 15 Wilson's Snipe 1 Flyover just after sunset. Ring-billed Gull 4600 When we arrived there were only about 1000 Ring-billed Gulls on the lake, but flocks from 20 - 400 birds kept coming in, particularly around dusk. California Gull 35 Very conservative count. Herring Gull 90 Very conservative count. LESSER BLACK_BACKED GULL (graellsii) 1 **A single adult. GLAUCOUS GULL 1 **Rare. Early. A very white individual with very few markings on the upperparts. Fairly long pinkish bill with black ring near tip. First-cycle bird. SHORT-EARED OWL 5 At least 5 individuals started flying around 4:50pm. American Crow 2 American Tree Sparrow 5 Song Sparrow 7 Swamp Sparrow 1 Heard calling from marsh. Red-winged Blackbird 2500 Western Meadowlark 2 Great-tailed Grackle 3 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) -- Colorado Field Ornithologists: http://www.cfo-link.org/ Colorado County Birding: http://www.coloradocountybirding.com/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.as/group/cobirds?hl=en
