It’s really starting to feel like spring. Early spring, perhaps, but the warmer air today, bright sun, new leaves, and slight uptick in birdsong were convincing.
Singers down in the neighborhood and up on the deer trails. An Eastern Sunday cottontail in the old quarry. Even this evening in the yard, a solitary Cooper’s Hawk on a utility line.
As happens nearly every night, I can’t help but what tomorrow brings.
Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 7:49 a.m. (8:49 MDT), I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.
1. American Robin*
2. House Finch*
3. Northern Flicker**
4. Spotted Towhee
5. Rock Pigeon*
6. Lesser Goldfinch** (v)
7. Black-capped Chickadee**
8. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay
9. Red-breasted Nuthatch (v)
10. Black-billed Magpie*
Elsewhere
11. California Quail
12. House Sparrow
13. Eurasian Collared-dove
14. Song Sparrow
15. European Starling
16. Cooper’s Hawk
Mammals
Mountain Cottontail
Mule Deer
(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
Tags: American robin, black-billd magpie, black-capped chickadee, California quail, cooper's hawk, Eurasian collared dove, European starling, house finch, house sparrow, lesser goldfinch, mountain cottontail, mule deer, northern flicker, red-breasted nuthatch, rock pigeon, song sparrow, spotted towhee, Woodhouse’s scrub jay
