The morning was cloudless (with a little ground-clinging smog below), with temperatures in the 30s (F). Not much wind to speak of—nor many bird species. About thirty juncos, and plenty of towhees and finches and such. Nothing extraordinary up the mountain trails, though.
So here’s a hawk I photographed from home this afternoon.
Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 9:04 a.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.
1. Juniper Titmouse (v)
2. House Finch*
3. Black-capped Chickadee
4. Spotted Towhee**
5. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay**
6. Dark-eyed Junco
7. Black-billed Magpie*
8. American Robin* (v)
Elsewhere
9. Northern Flicker
10. Song Sparrow
11. Red-tailed Hawk
12. California Quail
(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
Mammals
Rock Squirrel
