Linked to album for larger views ... http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/albums/view/59/landfill-larimer
Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org On Monday, December 9, 2019 at 8:57:49 AM UTC-7, The "Nunn Guy" wrote: > > Apparently the photo did not take first go around ... > > [image: Gyrs.PNG] > > > On Monday, December 9, 2019 at 8:54:06 AM UTC-7, The "Nunn Guy" wrote: >> >> Hi all/Derek >> >> First four birds shown here are from this year's bird. The circled three >> at bottom are photos of last year's bird. >> >> Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn >> http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org >> >> >> >> On Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 9:37:47 AM UTC-7, Derek Hill wrote: >>> >>> No Gyrfalcon sighting from 8:30-10:00am yesterday 8 December. At least 5 >>> other cars of seekers were spotted, including a cool gyrfalcon license >>> plate. A small number of Red-tails and Kestrels were in the area, and a >>> flyby Prairie Falcon was near CR 57 and Taft Hill Road nearby two days >>> previous. >>> >>> Scoping the gulls from west Trilby yesterday, at least one or two adult >>> Lesser Black-backed were obvious both in flight and on the geound, as well >>> as at least one first-year Iceland type. The silvery wingtips and uniform >>> pale brown-gray plumage were visible, and even at rest, the primaries were >>> concolorous with the upperparts. I guess a pale Thayers type or possibly >>> Kumleini. One of these days I'll drive into the landfill proper and study >>> the gulls up close. >>> >>> Good luck to all who chase the legendary Gyrfalcon. It seems to wander >>> quite unpredictably. >>> >>> Also, in the series of photos linked by G. Lefko recently, is this >>> supposed to be the same bird/date in the series of photos? In particular, >>> images 5-8 appear very different in underparts plumage from image 3. Hard >>> to reconcile this as a matter of image exposure. >>> >>> Image 3: >>> >>> http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/albums/photos/view/59/542/gyrfalcon >>> >>> Image 5: >>> >>> http://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/albums/photos/view/59/2270/gyrfalcon >>> >>> Good birding, >>> Derek Hill >>> Loveland >>> >>> -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/f8a9c00d-23ec-4406-a0b1-1afcafa7bc05%40googlegroups.com.
