Another hike without my dog. Only about ten days to go. (Ten days?!) But it was a nice, cool, sunny mid-morning, and a couple wild birds posed for portraits.
Notable was a Black-billed Magpie that I came upon picking at old mule deer bones. It had such a one-track mind that it was fine with my staying within about twenty or thirty feet of it, snapping photos.
Also a bunch of scrub-jays and a scattering of juncos.
Back home, out my office window, I watched another kinglet poking about in the greenery—well, brownery, I guess.
Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 10:30 a.m. (MST), I hiked a few hundred feet up the mountain.
1. Black-billed Magpie*
2. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay*
3. Black-capped Chickadee**
4. House Finch*
5. Lesser Goldfinch** (v)
6. Dark-eyed Junco**
7. Northern Flicker (v)
Elsewhere
8. Eurasian Collared Dove
9. Song Sparrow
10. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
Tags: black-billed magpie, black-capped chickadee, dark-eyed juco, Eurasian collared dove, house finch, lesser goldfinch, northern flicker, ruby-crowned kinglet, song sparrow, Woodhouse’s scrub-jay
