[cobirds] Re: Stearn's Reservoir, Boulder County

Here's a photo of one of the lecustic cackling geese at Frederick lake from this afternoon.

Preston Sowell

Boulder, CO

On Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 7:44:14 PM UTC-7, Tom Hall, Fort Collins wrote:

I went to Stearn's Reservoir today (5 hours) to locate the Brant.  After giving up and heading back, it was found by a few people I ran into on the way out.  It appeared to be a gray-bellied form.  Also at the lake among the 10,000 Cacklers and 500 Canada Geese were a dark and light phase (2) Ross's Geese, a Greater White-fronted Goose (Taiga or Pacific (not sure which is current)), I believe 3 white phase Snow Geese (saw two at one time), a couple of Snow x Cackling hybrids.

Weld County - Saw 4  Greater White-fronted Geese (Tundra) at the Gravel pit off SH 119/I25  to north and east a few blocks on a gravel pit pond (Union St/Arbor St.) along with a Snow Goose, a Canada/Greater White-fronted hybrid, 3,000 Cackling Geese and a few hundred Canada Geese.  Struck out on the Barnacles Goose, but did see both blue and white phase Snow Geese and another Tundra Greater White-fronted Goose .  Of note, saw two leucistic and a melanistic Cackling Geese yesterday (one present today) and Pink-footed Goose.  The black Cackling Goose was not fully black, but cheek patch (could see it to some degree) and front were almost all black, with the back gray - about normal color.  A few pictures were taken of it by someone.

Tom Hall

Fort Collins, CO

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