Heard a first-of-year warbler song this lovely warm morning. The bird was perched in the tip of a scrub oak (as were a few nearby Lazuli Buntings), and it sounded something like a Nashville Warbler—and sure enough, it turned out to be a Virginia’s. [My first Virginia’s Warbler here I mis-ID’d as a NAWA.]
But that wasn’t the only first-of-year bird this morn: I also heard a pair of Warbling Vireos having a sing-off up the gully where there was a nest last year.
A wondrous time of year.
Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 7:19 a.m. (8:19 MDT), I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.
1. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay*
2. American Robin*
3. Lazuli Bunting
4. Black-chinned Hummingbird
5. Spotted Towhee
6. House Finch**
7. Lesser Goldfinch**
8. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
9. Virginia’s Warbler‡
10. Black-capped Chickadee
11. Chipping Sparrow
12. Northern Flicker (v)
13. Orange-crowned Warbler
14. Warbling Vireo‡ (v)
15. Black-throated Gray Warbler (v)
Elsewhere
16. House Sparrow (v)
17. Song Sparrow (v)
18. Black-billed Magpie
Mammals
Mountain Cottontail
(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
†First-of-year bird
Tags: American robin, black-billed magpie, black-capped chickadee, black-chinned hummingbird, black-throated gray warbler, blue-gray gnatcatcher, chipping sparrow, house finch, house sparrow, lazuli bunting, lesser goldfinch, mountain cottontail, northern flicker, Orange-crowned Warbler, song sparrow, spotted towhee, Virginia’s warbler, warbling vireo, Woodhouse’s scrub jay
