Hello, Birders.
Y'know how the weather in the Front Range region has been pretty nice for the
past month? Well, that's all about to change. If you believe the National
Weather Service, the Front Range region is about to experience several days of
snow and cold.
And that's great news for this
This morning the Trumpeter Swan? was still at Valmont Reservoir in the
westernmost pond. Maybe it will remain there for Saturday's Gullapalooza.
Also, the Golden-crowned Sparrow was still at the Teller Farms parking
lot. It was with a small group of White-crowned Sparrows. I have
Today around 3:30pm my family and I decided to go to Horseshoe Lake in
search of ducks and rare gulls, this is what we found:
95 Ring-billed Gulls
4 Herring Gulls (3 Adults and one Juv. Bird)
1 Greater Black-backed Gull (Adult male on the West section of the
lake in with a flock of about 60 RB
Compiler: Ira Sanders
Date: February 1, 2012
e-mail: rba AT cfobirds.org
phone: 303-659-8750
This is the Colorado Rare Bird Alert for Wednesday, February 1, 2012,
sponsored by Denver Field Ornithologists and the Rocky Mountain Bird
Observatory. If you are phoning in a
Like the Bols, I too visited Horseshoe Lake , although later in the day. I
found hundreds of gulls in the southwest corner of the lake, viewed from the
Monroe St. on the west side. When I arrived, some gulls were leaving, including
an adult “black-backed” gull and a young “white-winged gull”.
