RE: [cobirds] Yesterday: Morgan and Weld: ICELAND GULL

Hi,
Tried for the Iceland Gull and Lbb Gull late this morning (2/14) at Windsor Lake and only saw ring-bills and Herring.  Your photos of the Iceland were beautiful.

Dave Leatherman
Fort Collins

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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 11:19:47 -0500
From: cobirds@googlegroups.com
To: cobirds@googlegroups.com
Subject: [cobirds] Yesterday: Morgan and Weld: ICELAND GULL

Greetings

Water, water, wherefore art thou o' open water?

Despite frozen reservoir, David Dowell and I had excellent birding yesterday

Jackson Reservoir had a scattering of low-level rarities including Mountain Bluebird, YR Warbler, and WT Sparrow. Among swirling flocks of Cackling/Canada Geese in cornfields there was a Snow x Canada Goose hybrid. The state parks was filled with hundreds of robins, dozens of juncos and Blue Jays (>60), 30+ Cedar Waxwings, an nice smattering of goldfinches, etc. 

One field to the south of the reservoir has dense long bent weeds. This field has been filled with sparrows for months, as it was yesterday with nearly 500 WC Sparrows and one WT Sparrow. Oddly, there were no tree sparrows or Song Sparrows. A Prairie Merlin and a Northern Harrier perused the field for lunch. 

Linn Grove Cemetery in Greeley was nearly birdless, though the cross-the-road pond a decent variety of ducks

Seeley Reservoir had some open water and a nice variety of waterfowl.

Windsor Lake was frozen. But there were a number of dead fish and ?dead waterfowl? stuck in ice. Feeding there was an adult ICELAND GULL and juv LBB GULL, a smattering of Herring and RB Gulls, a few Bald Eagles and Crows

Near Severance there was a very early (?) or wintering (?) SAY'S PHOEBE. 

Photos of Iceland Gull are the first three in my photostream on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/36088296@N08/

Cheers

Steve Mlodinow

Longmont CO

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