Today’s late-morning hike proved kind of eventful. First saw a mini-stampede of mule deer up a mountainside, then encountered a solitary Sharp-shinned Hawk just as we were descending.

Here’s a picture of the sharpie.

Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 11:15 a.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up the mountain.

1. House Finch**
2. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay** (v)
3. Song Sparrow (v)
4. Black-capped Chickadee**
5. Dark-eyed Junco
6. Lesser Goldfinch
7. Northern Flicker* (v)
8. Black-billed Magpie* (v)
9. Sharp-shinned Hawk

v = Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere