I saw a crow today. Actually, two crows. I so rarely see crows out here in the Mountain West—occasionally I see them hanging around the supermarket parking lots in town, but only two or three times have I encountered a crow on my hikes in the Wasatch foothills with dog.
Back in Maine, it was a rare day when I didn’t hear or see multiple American Crows. Every fall about this time, in fact, they’d hold large conventions in the Beech Hill blueberry barrens—scores of them, Maybe hundreds.
Well, I saw a pair of them this morning, flying in the blue high above us. A pair of crows. It was a thrill.
Grandeur Peak Area List
At 7:54 a.m. (8:54 MDT), I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.
1. Yellow-rumped Warbler
2. Black-billed Magpie**
3. House Finch
4. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay
5. Rock Pigeon*
6. Pine Siskin (v)
7. Spotted Towhee
8. Northern Flicker
9. American Crow
10. American Goldfinch (v)
11. Black-capped Chickadee
12. Dark-eyed Junco
13. American Robin
14. Lesser Goldfinch (v)
Elsewhere
15. Song Sparrow
Mammals
Red Squirrel
(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
Tags: American crow, American goldfinch, American robin, black-billed magpie, black-capped chickadee, dark-eyed junco, house finch, lesser goldfinch, pine siskin, red squirrel, rock pigeon, song sparrow, Woodhouse’s scrub jay, yellow-rumped warbler
