17 February 2025

Chill and Sparrow

Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
Lincoln’s Sparrow, East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, Utah, 29 September 2021.
Lincoln’s Sparrow.

When dog and I hit the trailhead, we found ourselves in nippy (42° F) conditions. Evidence of sprinkles overnight, mostly clouds overhead. Fewer birds than yesterday: only seven spp.—until we’d made it up the gully to the deer trail, where a little batch of yellow-rumps and kinglets appeared in a juniper tree.

But the highlight of the hike happened on our return trip, when a solitary Lincoln’s Sparrow popped up on a wild rose bush at the old Monarch Quarry. Can’t remember the last time I saw one of those handsome birds.

Grandeur Peak Area List
At 7:15 a.m. (8:15 MDT), I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.

1. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay
2. House Finch**
3. Song Sparrow
4. Northern Flicker
5. Rock Pigeon
6. Black-capped Chickadee
7. Rock Wren
8. Yellow-rumped Warbler
9. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
10. American Robin
11. Lesser Goldfinch*
12. Lincoln’s Sparrow
13. Spotted Towhee (v)

Elsewhere

14. House Sparrow (v)
15. California Quail
16. Eurasian Collared-dove

Mammals

Red Squirrel
Rock Squirrel

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

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