A cool summer morning, with maybe one or two little clouds in the blue, blue sky. Kind of a bad air day, but that didn’t stop dog and I from making our usual rounds.
So many juvies! Towhees, buntings, hummingbirds, finches, hawk gnatcatchers—pretty much every resident species (those that decided to stick around despite the historic drought) has fledged a successful brood The only towhee I saw today was a young ’un, in fact. And the chatter of an immature oriole lured over to catch a glimpse. Clear hot days for the foreseeable future. Sunday night’s storm has left a happy landscape (but it’ll not make a dent in the drought).
Today marks the second anniversary of my living in Salt Lake City.
Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 7:04 a.m. (8:04 MDT), I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.
1. House Finch*
2. Lazuli Bunting
3. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay (v)
4. Black-chinned Hummingbird
5. Mourning Dove*
6. Lesser Goldfinch**
7. Red-tailed Hawk*
8. Rock Pigeon*
9. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
10. Spotted Towhee
11. Black-capped Chickadee (v)
12. Broad-tailed Hummingbird
13. Cooper’s Hawk (v)
14. Bullock’s Oriole
15. Black-billed Magpie* (v)
Elsewhere
16. California Quail
17. Eurasian Collared-dove
Mammals
Mountain Cottontail
Rock Squirrel
(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
Tags: black-billed magpie, black-capped chickadee, black-chinned hummingbird, blue-gray gnatcatcher, broad-tailed hummingbird, Bullock’s oriole, California quail, cooper's hawk, Eurasian collared dove, house finch, lazuli bunting, lesser goldfinch, mountain cottontail, mourning dove, red-tailed haw, rock pigeon, rock squirel, spotted towhee, Woodhous’s scrub-jay
