Hi, Paul Opler sent me the following message and asked me to share it with COBIRDS:
[For the last four days at least there has been an increasingly large number of gulls roosting for the night on the south end of Boyd Lake, then spending the day feeding in weedy alfalfa fields just south of Mountain View High School, just south of intersection of US 34 and Larimer Co. Rd. 9 [=Boyd Lake Avenue]. I observed these beginning on the afternoon of the 13th at about a thousand birds until this morning the 16th there must be at least several thousand individuals, possibly many more. These are mainly ring-billed gulls, but there I included are some California gulls and 3-4 Lesser Black-backed gulls. I scanned as many of the birds as I could and there were none of the larger pink-footed Herring or Thayer's Gulls included. The birds are very active and vocal and can be heard calling at night from Boyd Lake -- we live just across the street. I have heard this frenzy around this time of year in the past but didn't know where they hung out during the day. Paul Opler] Dave Leatherman Fort Collins -- 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/SNT148-W36F7AB80210EC68C1A21EC1020%40phx.gbl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.