Compiler: Joyce Takamine
Date: January 7, 2012
e-mail: r...@cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Saturday, January 7, 2012
sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
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I have been looking at this gull for a while and I think it is a
juvenile/first cycle herring gull but it seems too dark and charcoal
colored.
http://avoapples.com/birds/_MG_9912_cr.jpg
http://avoapples.com/birds/_MG_9948_cr.jpg
Comments would be appreciated, especially comments explaining
Bill, I believe this same individual was in Larimer County in December. Here
is a photo I took at Lake Loveland on Dec 28:
http://www.pbase.com/quetzal/image/140599429. I did not see it on Jan 1.
When did you first start seeing it? I agree it is a confusing bird. I saw it
with its wings
Darn, I was trying to get in and out of Barnes Noble without being noticed .
Although there were zero gulls at Lake Loveland, there were 5 gulls (all
Herring Gulls) on the ice shelf at Boyd Lake (30% open). Horseshoe Lake had no
open water and no gulls. Hundreds of gulls were feasting at the
