Greetings All
Today I spent the first 6 hours of the day at Jackson (State Park/Reservoir- Weld County), which was fun as usual. At the outlet channel, at the southern tip of the reservoir, there were >50 Least Sands, 2 Pec Sands, and 9 LB Dowitchers.. nice for November. Also there were 4 Thayer's Gulls (2 adults, 2 juvs) and a fair number of Herring Gulls (25 or so)... and a GW x Western Gull hybrid (picture a GW Gull with darker wing tips; stouter of body and bill than a GW x Herring hybrid). At the visitor center in the state park, there was a vocal Gray Catbird and a couple singing Townsend's Solitaires. Birds seemed to be moving in and out of the state park as I traversed the Russian Olive thickets. The aforementioned cooperative Northern Parula was the highlight, but a Wilson's Warbler wasn't bad for November either, and a White-throated Sparrow was a nice add-on. Also, there was a getting-late Brown Thrasher. Hundreds of robins, dozens of flickers, but relatively few WC Sparrows and juncos... don't know why. As I was land-birding, thousands of Cackling Geese were coming into the reservoir. With them was a handful of Ross's Geese including a stunning blue-morph... a bird the existence of which was debated a couple decades ago. They seem to be increasing, but the entire population is probably just a few hundred. On my way back -Weld CR 59 was frozen -Loloff was full of birds, but nothing unusual. Lotsa Canvasback -Lower Latham needs an early AM visit when lighting is better, but I was lucky enough to have an adult BL Kittiwake fly around reasonably close (for Latham) in good light. -Stewart's Pond was chock full of waterfowl, including 3 GWF Geese, 2 Ross's Geese, and a Mallard x Am Wigeon hybrids. - Union was packed with birds as well, but nothing unusual excepting the > 100 Red-breasted Mergansers there A rather fabulous day Good Birding Steve Mlodinow -- 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/8D0A96C1A1682A6-1FBC-AB4D%40webmail-m134.sysops.aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
