This afternoon I spent a little bit of time at Timnath Reservoir in Larimer County. I got hung up looking through the geese and gulls, so I didn't have the time to scan most of the reservoir and I didn't even have enough time to scan all the gulls as closely as I would have liked. Here are the highlights: Snow Goose - 2, also a hybrid snow/canada type present ICELAND GULL - 1 1st year Thayer's Gull - 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 Possible SLATY-BACKED GULL - 1 (I am thinking 2nd winter) From looking at pics on the internet I strongly believe that it is a Slaty-backed, but I am willing to be proven wrong. First off it was a large gull, a lot heavier and even several inches taller than the Iceland Gull it was battling with over some food. It had a white head and breast with a smudgy spot around the eye. It also had a fairly white belly. It had a tricolored back, most of it was smudgy dark, but it also had a little bit of lighter gray and brown. It had dark, appeared black, primaries and pink legs. It also had a bicolored bill, with ~1/4 of it being black and the rest being pinkish. A couple very poor pics of the possible Slaty-backed (and one of the pics it is next to the Iceland Gull) can be seen on my website: http://www.pbase.com/birdingwild1/image/139545574. The bird was a long ways away and was digiscoped with my iPhone. I will be out first thing tomorrow morning looking for the Varied Thrush with several birders and then we are planning to head to Timnath right after that. I will post if we refind any of these birds and hope to see others out there. Cole Wild Loveland
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