COBirders,
I sent this last night but it apparently did not make it out??? I apologize if you receive it twice. I stopped at Big Johnson reservoir tonight around 5:30 and planned to just give a quick look before heading back home. I finally left around 7. Upon arriving there was a nice spanky looking COMMON LOON right out from me. Eventually I found at least four Common Loons and at one point three of them were together. But the real highlight for me was an apparent 2nd cycle GLAUCOUS GULL. The bird seems to be very bleached as it is almost pure white with only the belly showing a little ducky color. The bird was quite far most of the time but a couple of times it got up and flew around as the adult BALD EAGLE made passes over the reservoir. The bird was finally seen next to an adult HERRING GULL and it was larger and bulkier. Hopefully the bird will stick around and come closer. Here are the details: 12 Bonaparte's Gull 75 Franklin's Gull 75 Ring-billed Gull 150 California Gull 3 Herring Gull (2 first cycle and 1 adult) 1 Thayer's Gull (1st cycle) 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull (3rd cycle) 1 Glaucous Gull Also of note were two SNOWY EGRETs. For directions: http://coloradocountybirding.org/BySite.aspx?SiteID=859 ----- Mark Peterson Colorado Springs -- 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/1397572130.88919.YahooMailNeo%40web121506.mail.ne1.yahoo.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
