Hi Everyone,
Today 3/22, I went to the Sprat Platte Fishing Area in Thornton (cross streets McKay and E 100th), the Elaine Valente Open Space (104th east of McKay), and the City of Thornton ponds in between, all in Adams County. The gulls at Sprat Platte included Ring-billed, California, a single Iceland (Thayer's), a single adult Lesser Black-backed, and a single adult Mew. Below is a digiscoped photo of the Mew Gull amid some Ring-billed Gulls. I have cropped it, but otherwise I haven't edited it. The thin, unmarked bill and large white spots on the outer primaries are visible. >From the corner of E 100th and McKay, I scoped the pond to the east. I counted 9 Double-crested Cormorants. Elaine Valente Open Space had a few more cormorants, all Double-crested. From Elaine Valente Open Space, I walked the trail along the South Platte to get a view of the ponds south of 104th. The more northerly pond had the continuing Red-throated Loon. The more southerly pond, the same pond as the one I scoped earlier, had a Red-breasted Merganser and cormorants I couldn't see from the west side, a total of 15. One of the cormorants looked small, but since tail and neck proportions weren't really assessable from this distance, I did not try to identify it. This individual was not visible from McKay and 100th, and too far away even to digiscope. Mark Miller Longmont, CO -- 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/009401d4e0ef%24d155be50%2474013af0%24%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
