Lagerman (Boulder) Long-tailed Ducks 11/17

[Mark Miller]

Hi Everyone,

 

Today 11/17 I saw two Long-tailed Ducks at Lagerman Reservoir in Longmont. The brighter of the two came close enough for me to get some digiscope photos, and Peter Burke got some much better images with a real camera. Looks like there’s just one face smudge, not two, which points to a female. The duller one looks to be a young bird of undetermined sex, but it has just one face smudge, too. The brighter one is staying toward the NE corner, the duller one toward the SE corner, but they spent a lot of time underwater. It would be fun to know what they’re eating down there. I speculated maybe crayfish, but there could be other edibles on the bottom.

 

Mark Miller

Longmont, CO