Jaeger at Boyd Lake -Larimer

[Nicholas Komar]

A juvenile Long-tailed Jaeger just flew over Boyd Lake swim beach. Seems to be hanging around.

Nick Komar
Paul Gordy

[Kyle Carlsen]

Visible now, flying/circling, straight out from swim beach.

Kyle Carlsen

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> On Aug 29, 2023, at 6:37 AM, Nicholas Komar <quet...@comcast.net> wrote:
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> A juvenile Long-tailed Jaeger just flew over Boyd Lake swim beach. Seems to be hanging around.
>
> Nick Komar
> Paul Gordy
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[Thomas Heinrich]

Still here. Flying along west shore at north end near last parking area
8:56

Thomas Heinrich
Boulder, CO
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> On Aug 29, 2023, at 6:37 AM, Nicholas Komar <quet...@comcast.net> wrote:
>

> A juvenile Long-tailed Jaeger just flew over Boyd Lake swim beach. Seems to be hanging around.
>
> Nick Komar
> Paul Gordy
>

[Nicholas Komar]

I’m very pleased that there are now 40 reports of the juvenile Long-tailed Jaeger from Boyd Lake in eBird. Reviewing images I see now that this bird is not a dark morph but rather a darker intermediate morph based on the extensive white spotting and barring on the underwing and undertail coverts. For example see images in this checklist: https://ebird.org/checklist/S148409085. 

And a plug for submitting rare bird reports. Once I logged in to the Colorado Bird Records Committee website (accessed via Cobirds.org), I selected “Submit eBird Checklist”. The process took about 5 minutes.

By the way the last Long-tailed Jaeger reported to eBird from Boyd Lake was an adult in mid-September 2014, found by Andy Bankert. 

Nick Komar

Fort Collins

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On Aug 29, 2023, at 6:36 AM, Nicholas Komar <quet...@comcast.net> wrote:

A juvenile Long-tailed Jaeger just flew over Boyd Lake swim beach.  Seems to be hanging around.

Nick Komar
Paul Gordy