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Grosbeak

Wednesday, May 5th, 2021
Black-headed Grosbeak (first-of-year), East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, Utah, 05 May 2021.
Black-headed Grosbeak (first-of-year).

Fun hike this morning. A bit clearer, a bit warmer. Quite a few species to start, but toward the end of it, I began to think I wouldn’t have a first-of-year bird for a change. I was wrong.

I heard the soft warbled notes from a newly leafed-out maple tree. I knew it was the voice of a Black-headed Grosbeak. I crept with Jack off the trail and approached the tree. As I got near, I discovered that the bird was in fact singing from the other side of the maple, but as I rounded the tree, it flew.

We crept up a slope, dog and me, and I looked in the direction of where the bird had flown—and spied it quite a distance away.

Tomorrow’s temperature is supposed to top 80° (F).

Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 7:34 a.m. (8:34 MDT), I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.

1. Mourning Dove
2. American Robin*
2. Spotted Towhee
4. Lazuli Bunting
5. Black-chinned Hummingbird
6. Rock Pigeon*
7. House Finch**
8. Song Sparrow**
9. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
10. Lesser Goldfinch** (v)
11. Cooper’s Hawk
12. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay*
13. Chipping Sparrow
14. Black-capped Chickadee
15. Orange-crowned Warbler
16. Black-throated Gray Warbler
17. Black-headed Grosbeak‡
18. Black-billed Magpie*

Elsewhere

19. Eurasian Collared Dove
20. Red-tailed Hawk

Mammals

Mountain Cottontail
Mule Deer

(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
†First-of-year bird

Nice Surprises

Sunday, July 26th, 2020
Yellow Warbler (female), East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, UTah, 26 July 2020.
Yellow Warbler (female).

This morning’s hike took dog and me along our familiar route south along the shoreline trail, up Coyote Canyon (so-called) and back via deer trails up among the junipers. There were a lot of nice surprises.

Up the in the cool shady canyon, I heard the sapsucker-like call of a female Cooper’s Hawk and got a nice look at a randomly appearing female Yellow Warbler. In the junipers, I have a favorite shady spot where I like to pause, look and listen. Warbling Vireos, Black-throated Gray Warbler, chickadees, robins. Returning I spied a tanager and oriole, heard a magpie—even caught sight of a collared dove.

Just about every bird occurs to me as a nice surprise.

Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 8 a.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.

1. Rock Pigeon*
2. Mourning Dove
3. Black-chinned Hummingbird
4. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay*
5. Lazuli Bunting
6. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
7. House Finch**
8. Pine Siskin
9. Spotted Towhee
10. Black-capped Chickadee
11. Lesser Goldfinch
12. Cooper’s Hawk (v)
13. Yellow Warbler
14. Black-throated Gray Warbler
15. Warbling Vireo (v)
16. American Robin
17. Western Tanager
18. Eurasian Collared Dove
19. Black-billed Magpie (v)
20. Bullock’s Oriole

Elsewhere

21. House Sparrow
22. Barn Swallow

Mammals

Mountain Cottontail

(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere

**Voice only elsewhere

Stop, Look, and Listen

Thursday, July 16th, 2020
Western Tanager, East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, Utah, 16 July 2020.
Western Tanager, East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, Utah, 16 July 2020.
Warbling Vireo, East Millcreek, Salt Lake City, Utah, 16 July 2020.
Warbling Vireo.

This cool morning on the trail with dog, I watched a whole bunch of bird families do their thing. Many, many juvies of all sorts—colorful birds, drab birds, high-flying birds, birds scratching around in the undergrowth.

At one point, up in the shade of a juniper, I decided to stop and look and listen. Within a minute, a little family of Warbling Vireos flitted through, and I grabbed some photos. Then chickadees appeared, then finches, then buntings—then I heard a Virginia’s warbler nearby.

“Stop, look, and listen,” I said aloud—perhaps inspired by “stop, drop, and roll”? (Seemed like an inspired birding phrase at the time.)

Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 8 a.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.

1. Rock Pigeon*
2. American Robin*
3. House Finch*
4. Black-chinned Hummingbird
5. Lesser Goldfinch*
6. Lazuli Bunting
7. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay
8. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
9. Mourning Dove*
10. Spotted Towhee
11. Western Tanager
12. Black-billed Magpie*
13. Downy Woodpecker**
14. Pine Siskin (v)
15. Black-capped Chickadee
16. Cooper’s Hawk
17. Warbling Vireo
18. Virginia’s Warbler (v)
19. California Quail* (v)
20. Black-headed Grosbeak

Elsewhere

21. Eurasian Collared Dove
22. House Sparrow

Mammals

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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