Snowed again overnight, and inch or two. Unexpected by yours truly—but I hadn’t checked the weather for a while. Still got up the mountain early with dog. Not a lot of birds at first, but a little blue appeared, and the sun illuminated pieces of landscape for a bit, and there came an emergence.
(Even got my first decent look at a Chukar—albeit at a little distance.)
Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 9:15 a.m., I hiked a couple hundred feet up the mountain.
1. Black-billed Magpie*
2. American Robin*
3. Black-capped Chickadee
4. House Finch* (v)
5. Northern Flicker (v)
6. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay*
7. Spotted Towhee*
8. Chukar
9. Eurasian Collared Dove*
10. Dark-eyed Junco
11. Song Sparrow* (v)
Elsewhere
12. Lesser Goldfinch (v)
Mammals
Mule Deer
(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
