Folks- I wrapped up a pretty cool day of waterfowling by scanning a large
raft of Common Mergansers at al. offshore from the North Marina at
Chatfield.   My dad Jim had seen the long-lingering young Pomarine Jaeger
in the area earlier in the day so after ogling the Atlantic Brant pair by
the model airplane field I headed over.  After a while I found the
scoundrel in the melee of about 1000 Common Mergansers, handfulls of
assorted grebes & diving ducks, and a few hundred gulls (mostly Ring-billed
but some Herring, a few California, the young Glaucous and a 1st-winter
Lesser Black-backed.)  With the wind picking up from the east, I was able
to get a line of popcorn to drift out from the rocks below the north Marina
picnic tables, attracting a good mob of gulls.  The jaeger came over to
investigate, scattering the gulls as it made a few close passes in the
darkening sky before it headed back out to the protein fest in deeper water.

Thanks to everyone today for the calls & email updates.  Pretty great early
winter season birding we are having!

Enjoy- Bill Schmoker, Longmont

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