Cool morning, warm day. Reached 80 degrees (F), by damn. Temperature rose so quickly that it felt pretty chilly inside. Won’t last—but up the mountain, all the usual suspects were celebrating.
Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 9:15 a.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up the mountain.
1. Black-capped Chickadee**
2. Black-billed Magpie*
3. American Robin*
4. Northern Flicker**
5. Dark-eyed Junco
6. Lesser Goldfinch (v)
7. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay*
8. Ruby-crowned Kinglet**
9. House Finch*
10. Townsend’s Solitaire
Elsewhere
11. Eurasian Collared Dove
12. House Sparrow
13. Rock Pigeon
14. Song Sparrow (v)
v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
Tags: American robin, black-billed magpie, black-capped chickadee, dark-eyed junco, Eurasian collared cove, house finch, house sparrow, lesser goldfinch, northern flicker, rock pigeon, ruby-crowned kinglet, song sparrow, Townsend’s solitaire, Woodhouse’s scrub jay
