Pink-footed Goose?

[Gary & Sharon]

The Boulder Bird Club is headed to search for the the goose.
Any sightings this morning?

Thanks,
Sharon Norfleet
Louisville, Boulder County

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[Wayne Wathen]

Laura and I saw the bird I think about the same time some of you from the Boulder Bird Club saw it around 9:45 on the edges of all the Canada Geese.  Then waves more of geese flying in plus the wind and the Pink-footed was somewhere in the masses but difficult to hold binoculars steady and not get blown over looking for more sightings of the bird.

We then headed over to try to find the Gyrfalcon but no luck this time.  The land fill was closed because of the high winds and the falcon likely was hunkered down out of the wind somewhere.  We made several slow passes up and down both Trilby Road and primarily Taft Hill Road to no avail.   But it was still a good outing with if approved a new ABA bird.  

Laura & Wayne Wathen

Highlands Ranch, CO

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[Dave Hill]

Sam (from Colorado Springs), Cynthia Madsen and David Hill spotted the Pink-footed Goose on the SE corner of Firestone (Milavec) Reservoir between 11:00 AM and noon. Two Bald Eagles flushed the geese on multiple occasions requiring rescans of the thousands of individual geese each time. The winds were extremely strong and chilling.
David Hill
Arapahoe County

[Ajit Antony]

The Pink-footed Goose was at the northwest corner of Milavec Reservoir at 10:45 a.m. We saw it for about 10 minutes and it flew off with the Cackling Geese to west of the pond on the golf course which is north of the reservoir.
There were also a juvenile Greater White-fronted Goose and another but adult GWFG which may have been a hybrid with Snow Goose as it had a white front just behind the bill but also a lot of white on the side of the face.
Ajit & Liza Antony