Littleton, Arapahoe Co Apr 13

[David Suddjian]

A stop at Ketring Lake in the early afternoon during light snow had my first of season SNOWY EGRETS (2), a male and female MOUNTAIN BLUEBIRD (my first "in town" in Littleton), 3 NOR. ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS, 12 BARN SWALLOWS and a LINCOLN'S SPARROW. 

A trio of SAY'S PHOEBES was intent on hovering low over the water picking off something from the surface (presumably floating frozen insects), interrupting those efforts only to squabble with each other or to rest for a time on a shoreline rock. I was impressed with their prolonged hovering over the lake surface for periods of over a minute without landing, all the while facing into a freezing wind.

About 10 min ago an alternate-plumaged COMMON LOON powered north into the snow over St. Mary Church at Prince Street, calling as it passed over.

David Suddjian

Littleton, CO