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Flickers

Thursday, September 30th, 2021
Northern Flicker in flight, East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, Utah, 30 September 2021.
Northern Flicker in flight.

Another nippy morning, with temps in the 40s (F). Sweatshirt weather, for sure—until the sun tops the ridge, at which point things warm up in a hurry.

Evidence of migration still: many yellow-rumps, a couple of kinglets, robins headed south. Also more flickers than I could shake a stick at. I’m listing a count of ten, but I feel like that’s an undercount, for sure. At one point I found myself watching five in the same tree. In another tree, three.

They’re handsome birds, the flickers are. I do love fall migration.

Grandeur Peak Area List
At 7:25 a.m. (8:25 MDT), I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.

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

Elsewhere

13. Barn Swallow
14. Song Sparrow (v)
15. California Quail

Mammals

Red Squirrel
Rock Squirrel

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

 
Bird Report is a (sometimes intermittent) record of the birds I encounter while hiking, see while driving, or spy outside my window. —Brian Willson



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