
Breezy, cool, mostly overcast to start, clearing later—and what a hike it would be. Tallied twenty-four varied species (including a random Mallard flyby).
Other birds of interest were a couple of flycatchers, a Brewer’s Sparrow, a little flock of swallows, a tanager. Several species stopped to let me take their photo.
Already looking forward to morning.
Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 7:11 a.m. (8:11 MDT), I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.
1. Lazuli Bunting
2. Black-headed Grosbeak (v)
3. Rock Pigeon
4. Black-chinned Hummingbird
5. American Robin*
6. Spotted Towhee
7. Warbling Vireo
8. Western Wood-pewee
9. Mourning Dove
10. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay
11. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
12. House Finch**
13. Mallard
14. Rock Wren
15. Brewer’s Sparrow
16. Pine Siskin (v)
17. Chipping Sparrow
18. Black-capped Chickadee
19. Black-throated Gray Warbler (v)
20. Black-billed Magpie
21. Virginia’s Warbler
22. Violet-green Swallow
23. Western Tanager
Elsewhere
24. California Quail
25. European Starling
26. Song Sparrow
Mammals
Mountain Cottontail
(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere