[cobirds] WELD TODAY - first cycle MEW GULL, Windsor Lake
Greetings All I birded the "Latham Area" and then from Ault to Windsor today. Water is breaking up. The N Weld Co Landfill gulls are loafing in big numbers at Black Hollow, and this should only improve as the ice breaks up a bit more.. and Drake Lake as well (these areas are just w. of Ault) Windsor Reservoir has small areas that are open and stuffed with Mallards and White-cheeked Geese plus a few Snows, on Greater WF Goose, a couple hybrids (Canada and Cackling x Snow) and a Graylag x Canada. There was also a Mallard x American Wigeon there. No rarities involving "pure" species. Windsor Lake had a nice sprinkling of gulls, including a first cycle Mew Gull. Beyond body, head, and bill size/shape, note the more uniform wing coverts and paler tertials The southern end of L Latham is breaking up, but birds hard to see unless you are lucky (like today) and have no heat waves or wind. Nothing rare there that I could find. Loloff and WCR 59 ponds are frozen solid, but a Marsh Wren pished up out of WCR 59 ponds.. I rarely find them in winter in Weld. There is a tiny bit of open water at Stewarts and the area around Behrens Res, and I expect both of these to become quite good in the next week or so if the weather stays clement. Good Birding Steve Mlodinow Longmont CO -- 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/152f1e1b7e6-4803-8d02%40webprd-m76.mail.aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[cobirds] Weld Today
Greetings All Today Nick Moore and I birded around Weld County At about 4:30 AM we flushed an apparent family group of 5 Short eared Owls just w of intersection of Weld Co Road 100 and 21 - that is, headed towards Nunn. We had a singleton SE Owl about a mile closer to Nunn. We failed to see Sagebrush Sparrow, ST Flycatcher or Upland Sand at previously reported location along Weld 114. Otherwise, the most interesting birds of the day were 3 G Yellowlegs and 2 Lessers at Lower Latham. Fall migration is upon us! More about Alec Hopping and my adventure to NW Colorado tomorrow, if I manage to obtain some sleep somehow Good Birding Steve Mlodinow Longmont Sent from my iPhone -- 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/47E7B82F-ADD5-46D6-950E-BBF6BDBBE77D%40aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[cobirds] Weld Today
Greetings All I spent this morning birding a few select spots in Weld Crow Valley was dead, excepting a singing male N CARDINAL at the sw corner. Lotsa water in the creek, so hope for later on. Weld Co Rd 59 has some shorebird habitat, but no shorebirds (except breeders) Loloff had no shorebird habitat, or little, but a good diversity of ducks Lower Latham had 5 WHIMBREL on the east side of the reservoir and a GLOSSY IBIS among 100+ WF Ibis in the pools along the south side of the road just south of the reservoir. The Behrens Reservoir area had a CATTLE EGRET and a BW x CINNAMON TEAL Stewarts' Pond was stuffed with Gadwall, had a GREATER SCAUP female along with 16 Lesser Scaup and a PEREGRINE FALCON. Some shorebird habitat, no shorebirds. Friday I had a COMMON TERN along the entry road to St Vrain State Park Good Birding Steve Mlodinow Longmont CO -- 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/14d1cab6ec6-3eba-1a234%40webprd-a104.mail.aol.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
