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Archive for December, 2019

Winter Quiet

Sunday, December 22nd, 2019
Black-billed Magpie, East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, Utah, 22 December 2019.
Black-billed Magpie.

Warm today—nearly 50° (F). Had an early hike with Jack. Met no one on the trail (but saw several other hiking parties from a distance). Overcast, napping deer, few bird species.

A quiet first day of winter.

Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 10:15 a.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up the mountain.

1. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay*
2. Black-billed Magpie*
3. Black-capped Chickadee**
4. Dark-eyed Junco
5. Northern Flicker*
6. House Finch** (v)

Elsewhere

7. Rock Pigeon

v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere

**Voice only elsewhere

Sharpie

Saturday, December 21st, 2019
Sharp-shinned Hawk, East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, Utah, 21 December 2019.
Sharp-shinned Hawk.

Today’s late-morning hike proved kind of eventful. First saw a mini-stampede of mule deer up a mountainside, then encountered a solitary Sharp-shinned Hawk just as we were descending.

Here’s a picture of the sharpie.

Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 11:15 a.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up the mountain.

1. House Finch**
2. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay** (v)
3. Song Sparrow (v)
4. Black-capped Chickadee**
5. Dark-eyed Junco
6. Lesser Goldfinch
7. Northern Flicker* (v)
8. Black-billed Magpie* (v)
9. Sharp-shinned Hawk

v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere

**Voice only elsewhere

A Good Day

Friday, December 20th, 2019
Dark-eyed Junco, East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, Utah, 19 December 2019.
Dark-eyed Junco.
Snoozing mule deer buck, East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, Utah, 19 December 2019.
Snoozing mule deer buck.

A day much like yesterday. A little nippier, though. And birdier.

Scores of birds descended on the neighborhood, scrounging old sunflower seeds and plucking miscellaneous berries. Even spotted a solitaire among them.

And on the mountain trail, I saw (or heard) nine species. Juncos all over the place. And on an opposite slope I spied an enormous mule deer buck, snoozing.

All in all, a very good day.

Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 11:15 a.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up the mountain.

1. Black-billed Magpie*
2. House Finch*
3. Black-capped Chickadee*
4. American Robin* (v)
5. Northern Flicker**
6. Dark-eyed Junco*
7. Lesser Goldfinch*
8. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay* (v)
9. Hairy Woodpecker

Elsewhere
9. Townsend’s Solitaire
10. House Sparrow
11. European Starling
12. Rock Pigeon

v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere

**Voice only elsewhere

 
Bird Report is a (sometimes intermittent) record of the birds I encounter while hiking, see while driving, or spy outside my window. —Brian Willson



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