07-13-2024, 09:11 AM
Hey Guys ~
I ran into Erin, who lives on Mesa St. and runs up in the Owens Flats area. We were in the the North gulch which ends up down by you Bill, or behind Christie's house off West Mesa. I call it Sky Gulch after Aaron and Christies's daughter Skylar.
Erin told me she had seen OWLS in that area recently. I presume GHO. I told her about the many OWL families that we have watched
raise their Owlets up Gillespies Gulch. I noticed that Sky Gulch had some running water this year too, for a change.
ALSO, i few weeks ago while driving down Jim Canyon, just before the Octagon House. A huge water bird flew up out of the creek and literally
sailed down the road right in front and just a few feet above me all the way to Left Hand where it landed across Left Hand down by the bridge.
When I got home and looked at my bird book, it appeared that the bird I saw was a Brown Pelican. I ran it by Michelle, because the book don't
show Pelicans hanging out in Colorado. It had an obvious "pouch" and was huge. M suggested that it dropped in on it's migration. I could not get a photo
of it as I was driving, But I got a close up view of it right above my windshield for a few minutes. It was not a Stork, it definitely had a "pouch" under it's beak.
I am not an expert "birder". Any thoughts?
I ran into Erin, who lives on Mesa St. and runs up in the Owens Flats area. We were in the the North gulch which ends up down by you Bill, or behind Christie's house off West Mesa. I call it Sky Gulch after Aaron and Christies's daughter Skylar.
Erin told me she had seen OWLS in that area recently. I presume GHO. I told her about the many OWL families that we have watched
raise their Owlets up Gillespies Gulch. I noticed that Sky Gulch had some running water this year too, for a change.
ALSO, i few weeks ago while driving down Jim Canyon, just before the Octagon House. A huge water bird flew up out of the creek and literally
sailed down the road right in front and just a few feet above me all the way to Left Hand where it landed across Left Hand down by the bridge.
When I got home and looked at my bird book, it appeared that the bird I saw was a Brown Pelican. I ran it by Michelle, because the book don't
show Pelicans hanging out in Colorado. It had an obvious "pouch" and was huge. M suggested that it dropped in on it's migration. I could not get a photo
of it as I was driving, But I got a close up view of it right above my windshield for a few minutes. It was not a Stork, it definitely had a "pouch" under it's beak.
I am not an expert "birder". Any thoughts?