This warmish, overcast Sunday was awash with sweet, sweet mud. Been a good while since I had to scrape mud off my boots. How nice it is.
Also nice to sped the morning with the local birds, the usual suspects, my new old friends. Magpie, scrub-jay, towhee, junco. Flicker, chickadee, finch, robin. Even the sharpie and American Goldfinch were familiar players in this daily show of mine.
Later, at home, a pair of song sparrows showed up in the ivy, like dessert after a delicious meal.
Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 8:21 a.m. (MST), I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.
1. Black-billed Magpie
2. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay*
3. Spotted Towhee
4. House Finch**
5. American Robin
6. Dark-eyed Junco
7. Ruby-crowned Kinglet (v)
8. Northern Flicker**
9. Black-capped Chickadee
10. Downy Woodpecker
11. Sharp-shinned Hawk
12. American Goldfinch (v)
Elsewhere
13. Song Sparrow
Mammals
Red Squirrel (v)
(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
Tags: American goldfinch, American robin, black-billed magpie, black-capped chickadee, dark-eyed junco, downy woodpecker, house finch, northern flicker, red squirrel, ruby-crowned kinglet, sharp-shinned hawk, song sparrow, spotted towhee, Woodhouse’s scrub jay
