17 February 2025

Ol’ Boys

Wednesday, March 31st, 2021
Captain Jack and the cairn, East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, Utah, 31 March 2021.
Captain Jack and the cairn.

This morning we hiked up the cairn, Jack and I. It’d been a while. It was a very good hike. A cloudless day, warm as spring. We even climbed up above the overlook a hundred feet or so and sat a spell.

Not many birds today, but it didn’t seem to matter much. We both dug the mission, the exertion, the smells, the sights—the views of this miraculous world.

Not bad for a couple ol’ boys.

Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 7:39 a.m. (8:39 MDT), I hiked some 1,200 feet up a mountain.

1. Northern Flicker
2. Spotted Towhee
3. American Robin*
4. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay
5. Rock Pigeon*
6. Black-capped Chickadee
7. House Finch*
8. Black-billed Magpie
9. Cooper’s Hawk

Elsewhere

10. Eurasian Collared-dove

Mammals

Mule Deer

(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere

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