4 November 2024

Fun Hike

Monday, September 13th, 2021
Chipping Sparrow, East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, Utah,13 September 2021.
Chipping Sparrow.

Fun hike today. Cool in the mountain shade, with a cloud-dappled blue sky above. And lots of birds.

Mostly finches (more than 40 in all), but also a couple of calls I didn’t recognize and the first kinglet in a while—meaning migration is in fact underway.

Flitting around with the finches were at least one pair of chippies. One even sat for a photo.

Grandeur Peak Area List
At 7:11 a.m. (8:11 MDT), I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.

1. Northern Flicker (v)
2. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay
3. House Finch**
4. Spotted Towhee
5. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
6. Rock Pigeon*
7. Lesser Goldfinch
8. Black-chinned Hummingbird
9. Chipping Sparrow
10. Black-capped Chickadee
11. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
12. Nashville Warbler
13. American Robin
14. Black-billed Magpie** (v)

Elsewhere

15. Eurasian Collared-dove
16. Mourning Dove

Mammals

Rock Squirrel

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

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