4 November 2024

Warming

Tuesday, June 1st, 2021
Lazuli Bunting (male), East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, Utah, 01 June 2021.
Lazuli Bunting (singing).

It’s that time of spring when things go from kind of warm to hot. Dog and I got to the trailhead early enough to enjoy some cool shade before the sun topped the ridge, but the last half mile was a little toasty. Still not as toasty as this afternoon. Which was not as toasty as tomorrow afternoon is forecast to be.

Still a goodly number of bird species—including a gang of first-year Western Tanagers, a stealthy Cooper’s Hawk, and the usual singing buntings. Although number of singing buntings and towhees was down a bit from yesterday.

We might even head up a little earlier tomorrow, dog and I.

Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 7:24 a.m. (8:24 MDT), I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.

1. Lazuli Bunting
2. Black-headed Grosbeak
3. American Robin*
4. Black-chinned Hummingbird*
5. Spotted Towhee
6. Black-capped Chickadee
7. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
8. Western Tanager
9. House Finch**
10. Cooper’s Hawk
11. Orange-crowned Warbler (v)
12. Virginia’s Warbler (v)
13. Chipping Sparrow (v)
14. Warbling Vireo (v)
15. Chukar (v)
16. Mourning Dove
17. Pine Siskin (v)
18. Black-billed Magpie*

Elsewhere

19. Eurasian Collared-dove
20. California Quail
21. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay

Mammals

Rock Squirrel

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

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