January 15, 2016
Richard Stevens:
I took the time to hike
down to mile 2.5 at Aurora Reservoir in the early afternoon (started at the
most southeastern entrance).
Temperatures were in the low 30s; winds were 14 mph, gusts to 18 mph.
My hope to get photos of
the gulls congregated on the ice shelf there did not occur. The gulls were still to far away. A least two Thayer's Gulls and two Lesser
Black-backed Gulls were in the mixed of 500+ gulls.
Afterwards I drove to
Cherry Creek Reservoir (Arapahoe). Only
a couple of hundred gulls were around the open water at the northwest quadrant
of the lake. Nothing uncommon was found.
My birding day ended as I
parked along the road to the gun range.
Excellent views of the cattails to the west of Cherry Creek and north
and south of Lake View Road
were near the final curve to the range.
At 5:19 pm, a Short-eared
Owl flew over the cattails south of the Main Road, drove into the cattails and
continued north with something it is talons. This occurred under
another superb Colorado
winter sunset!
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