Spring Migration is in the Air 2/2

I made several stops today around the Loveland area. The first stop being the hotspot, Horseshoe Lake. Unfortunately when I was there 11:15 to 12:00 most of the gulls in the area were elsewhere, my guess, the landfill. I was able to find 2 adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls and a 1st winter Thayer's Gull. I was also able to refind the Long-tailed Duck in a flock of Common Goldeneye with 2 Common Mergansers which was found yesterday by Nick Komar, although it had moved from the SW part of the lake out to the middle. The best place to view it from is from the road Engleman Place. The new birds at the lake today was 5 Western Grebes and 1 Horned Grebe, these birds are probably migrants that came up from the south sometime last night.

                                                Lesser Black-backed Gull

                                                     Herring Gull

                                                     Long-tailed Duck

                                                    Western Grebe

                                                      Bald Eagle

My next stop was Lake Loveland. Here it was again fairly slow other than lots of Cackling and Canada Geese. There was also quite a few Ring-billed Gulls and a few adult Herring Gulls. The best bird I found was yet another Western Grebe. These things are definitely moving north.
Ryan's Gulch Reservoir had a lot of Ring-necked Ducks. It also had a male Gadwall that was with the Mallards. I also saw 4 Bald Eagles at this location.
There was another Bald Eagle at Cattail Pond being chased by an American Crow. Nothing new to note at this location. Other birds still around was the Trumpeter Swan, 2 Bufflehead, 1 Lesser Scaup, and 33 Canvasback.
Bud Mielke Reservoir was finally getting some open water, but the only birds on the water was 5 Mallards.
At Lon Hagler Reservoir there was 2 Bald Eagles flying over the reservoir and only 2 Ring-billed Gulls standing on the ice at the west end.
This afternoon I went back to Horseshoe Lake and the Lake Loveland. Unfortunately the wind had picked up so bad it was difficult to do much. I met up with Cade Cropper to search for the Long-tailed Duck and after going all the way around the lake stopping in several locations we found the bird at the NE side of the lake. The only interesting gulls around was 2 1st winter Thayer's Gulls and an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull. All the grebes were still present as well. At Lake Loveland all the gulls were in the middle of the lake, which totaled 800 birds or more. The only 2 interesting birds we were able to see in the rocking waves was an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull and a 1st winter Thayer's Gull.