Hi Everyone-- This morning 11/14, Marcia Marvin and I did some birding around McIntosh Lake and Union Reservoir in Longmont. McIntosh Lake was busy at the west end. We saw 5 Bonaparte's Gulls (1 imm, the others adults), at least 10 White Pelicans, a Common Loon, and a nice variety of regular ducks. Union Reservoir was less busy. A grebe-shaped bird seen from WCR 28 was deep in heat shimmer and could not be identified definitively, but the shape suggested Red-necked. A sunflower field on WCR 3.5 about 1/2 mile north of CO-119 was chock full of blackbirds, with at least 1000 Red-winged Blackbirds (one of which was a pure albino), 1 Yellow-headed Blackbird, and about 50 Common Grackles. A dark-morph Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk was sitting on a utility pole on WCR 3.5 just north of the blackbirds.
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