I’m not absolutely positive—as it’s dangerous to be, with Empidonax flycatchers—but I’m pretty sure I saw my first Cordilleran Flycatcher on the mountainside this morning. (Also pretty sure it was a juvenile.)

Another very fun walk uphill today.

Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 8:15 a.m., I hiked several hundred feet up a Utah mountain.

1. House Finch
2. Black-billed Magpie
3. Eurasian Collared Dove
4. California Quail
5. Black-capped Chickadee
6. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
7. Lazuli Bunting
8. Cordilleran Flycatcher‡
9. Spotted Towhee
10. Black-throated Hummingbird
11. Lesser Goldfinch
12. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay
13. Turkey Vulture
14. House Sparrow

‡Lifer