Hello, Birders.
Andrew and I had an errand to run this morning, Friday, Nov. 30th, so we stopped by Sombrero Marsh, Boulder County, where the 8 Tundra Swans were still present. As Christian Nunes has noted, one of the bird wears yellow-on-blue neck-band #U856. Learn more about the Tundra Swan banding program here: http://tinyurl.com/SwanNeckBands
Andrew wondered why the band wasn't 958n, and I think that's a good question.
Next we headed over to the Legion Park overlook, where our goal was to count more than 2^9 American Coots, and, ideally, to achieve a prime-number count. We succeeded on the former front, but not on the latter.
And we had a pleasant surprise at Legion Park: two Lapland Longspurs calling and circling low over the overlook. They briefly put down in the shrubby, spiny stuff just east of the overlook, then kept on going. One showed a fair bit of dark below, and was colorful overall, so I guess that makes it an adult male; the other may also have been an adult male, but I wasn't sure.
Ted Floyd
tedfloyd57@hotmail.com
Lafayette, BOULDER County, Colorado
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