How perfectly fitting to have chased and found, on the last day of the year, a Song Sparrow, plain but comely member of one of our most familiar, most endearing, most optimistic-seeming birds.
Now we ease into the unknown that is Year 2020.
Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 10:30 a.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up the mountain.
1. Song Sparrow
2. Black-capped Chickadee**
3. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay**
4. House Finch*
5. Black-billed Magpie*
6. Northern Flicker
7. Dark-eyed Junco
v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
