At Dry Creek Reservoir there were a lot of geese and very few ducks. Looking through the geese I was able to find 2 'Taverner's' Cackling Geese and 1 Ross's X Cackling Goose Hybrid, which is the first time I have seen this hybrid combination. It was smaller than the 'Richardson's' Cackling Geese it was with with a mostly white head and a very small pink and black bill. Then after the first 2 hours I went to Lake Loveland and then Horseshoe Lake there were very few birds at both locations and all the gulls I saw were Ring-billed Gulls. I then was able to photograph a couple Bald Eagles at Donath Reservoir.
Duck Lake is finally getting some open water with about half the lake open and quite a few ducks were present including over 30 Canvasback. Kechter Pit had a lot of birds also, but still can't find anything of interest here. Timnath Reservoir had a turnover. I was not able to find the Tundra Swan, Long-tailed Duck, or Mountain Bluebirds. There were more small grebes present including 4 Eared Grebes. I also saw a number of Northern Shovelers of which I didn't have yesterday either. I didn't many interesting birds, but it was still exciting.
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