The spring storm in northern Colorado (18 inches of snow in my Fort Collins yard) clearly makes birding very exciting. My highlights today:
CSU campus 8:45 am - Mountain Bluebirds Bohemian Waxwing CSU campus 12:45 pm- Mountain Bluebirds Sage Thrasher – 1 My backyard in Fort Collins 1:30 pm - Bluebird species – 1 fem Hermit Thrush – 1 photographed Horseshoe Lake, Loveland 3:30 pm- Great Black-backed Gull – 1 4th cycle, photographed (95% sure of the ID), photographed California Gull – 450 Bald Eagle – 2 (flushed gulls) Lake Loveland 5 pm- Franklin’s Gull – 300 Bonaparte’s Gull – 3 Greater Yellowlegs – 2 Cackling Goose – 4 (in the northwest duck pond), photographed Yellow-rumped Warber – 1 Horseshoe Lake 6 pm- Caspian Tern – 1, photographed Forster’s Tern – 2 Mew Gull – 1 2nd cycle, photographed Lesser Black-backed Gull – 1 4th cycle, 1 1st cycle (same birds that were here on Saturday 4/13) Thayer’s Gull – 1 imm. (1st or 2nd cycle) I left as it was getting dark, and some of these birds had disappeared, including the Caspian Tern and Mew Gull. Photos are posted in Recent Bird Photo gallery at www.pbase.com/quetzal. Nick Komar Fort Collins 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
