Pueblo Reservoir/Valco Ponds, Pueblo County 1/28

[Brandon]

Van Truan and I scoped Pueblo Reservoir today, and walked around Valco Ponds as well.  Highlights follow:

Pueblo Reservoir:

3 Yellow-billed Loons (the most I have ever seen at one time at Pueblo Reservoir)

2 Red-throated Loons

1 Pacific Loon

12 Common Loons

2 Red-necked Grebes

1 American White Pelican

1 Double-crested Cormorant

1 adult Great Black-backed Gull

11 Lesser Black-backed Gulls

1 adult Iceland (Thayer's) Gull

2 California Gulls

large numbers of Ring-billed and Herring Gulls

bonaparte's gulls might have left, since there is more ice than last week

1 Long-tailed Duck

Western, Horned, and Eared Grebes

Sage and Curve-billed Thrashers

Valco Ponds in Pueblo:

female Eastern Towhee continues since late November

Yellow-rumped Warblers

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Bewick's Wren

Brandon Percival
Pueblo West, CO