SE Colorado Today

[Steven Mlodinow]

Greetings All

Today, Dave Ely and I stood overlooking Neegronda (Kiowa) at sunrise, before us a number of ducks, mostly Redhead, which still boggles my mind

After a bit, Dave found a dark M Duck (Mottled, Mexican. Mallard) To our surprise it was a female Mexican, differing from the Mottled which had been there in being a bit paler, distinctly grayer on face with more extensive fine streaking, having orange on sides of bill- and in flight- nice white borders to speculum

At Neenoshe Reservoir there was a male Mexican Duck in the sw portion and a Broad-tailed Hummingbird near the farmhouse at se corner. The pond adjacent to the se corner of Neenoshe again had an adult and subadult Neotropic Cormorant.

Then we were of to Otero where we found the 2nd year Zone-tailed Hawk at Higbee, cruising the ridge along n side of road. The bird worked area between 2.5 and 3.5 miles w of highway for over an hour

Good Luck and Good Birding
Steve Mlodinow
Longmont CO

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