Mountain Lakes Sunday

[Joey Kellner]

Greetings,

 

Kathy Mihm-Dunning, David Dowell and I birded the lakes of Park and Lake Counties.  Started with fog and a breeze, but the fog cleared by mid-mourning and the breeze lessened.

 

Best birds:

 

Eleven Mile Reservoir: (mostly open, frozen at west end)

     White-winged Scoter: 9!

     Black Scoter: 8!

     Long-tailed Duck: 1

     Lesser Black-backed Gull: 2 adults

     Common Loon: 2

 

Spinney Mountain Reservoir: (mostly open, but freezing up at the west end)

     Long-tailed Duck: 2

 

Antero Reservoir: (completely frozen)

 

Ice Pond: (almost completely frozen, no birds seen on the tiny amount of open water)

 

Clear Creek Lake: (mostly frozen; nothing of note)

 

Twin Lakes: (completely open)

     Snow Goose: 1

     Long-tailed Duck: 5!

 

Mt Elbert Forebay: (completely open)

     Barrow’s Goldeneye: 5

 

All in all, not a bad day up at “the lakes”.

 

Joey Kellner

Littleton, Colorado