Today I spent a couple hours attempting to goose and gull. LUNA Reservoir, just ne. of CO 7 and I 25, had stacks of birds, mostly at great distance. Remember, this is a place to visit well into afternoon or under cloudy conditions. 25+ Ruddy Ducks, 500+ N Shovelers, 4 Greater Scaup were among some of the more interesting numbers.
Sienna Pond (Sheriden and Lowell in Broomfield) had a couple thousand geese, no hybrids or interesting flavors of geese. Among the small pod of gulls there was one THAYER'S, an adult.
The Anthem Ranch ponds were frozen and thus bird-free
Frederick's geese all flew north as I drove up. 26 Ruddy Ducks was the most interesting find.
One of the Firestone Ponds, actually private property and difficult to view, had 5000+ Cacklers, one blue-morph Snow x Ross's Goose, one Cackler x Snow Goose, and one Canada x Ross's Goose for spice. No pure non-Canada/Cacklers in the herd.
Union is a block of ice.
And that is the news from Lake IceBeGone.
Steve Mlodinow
Longmont CO
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