Nippy at the start of our hike this morning, but verging on warm by the end of it. (Got to nearly 60° (F) in afternoon!) A day of blue skies, wispy clouds, a cottontail, a couple deer, a couple solitaires, and a mess of juncos.

Heard a Mountain Chickadee didn’t get a good lookg and got no photo. Saw a scrub-jay with a peanut about a mile from the neighborhood.

The sun felt good today.

Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 8:42 a.m. (MST), I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.

1. Northern Flicker** (v)
2. Dark-eyed Junco
3. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay*
4. Song Sparrow** (v)
5. Black-capped Chickadee
6. Spotted Towhee (v)
7. Rock Pigeon*
8. Townsend’s Solitaire
9. Black-billed Magpie*
10. House Finch*
11. Mountain Chickadee (v)
12. American Robin** (v)

Elsewhere

13. European Starling
14. Eurasian Collared-dove
15. House Sparrow (v)

Mammals

Mountain Cottontail
Mule Deer

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