Up the trail with dog as usual, and as lately in the cool, cool shade. Many birds at first—and all told the most species in a while—plus just a little visual magic today for whatever random reason.

For instance: Rock Squirrels perched high on a rock on a ridge, one high, one low; a hummingbird teed up on a twig, the waning gibbous moon behind it; and in late afternoon, a red-tail perched on a utility pole, as an incoming jetliner passes in the sky behind it. (Saw what I assume was the same hawk, on the same pole, this early morning.)

A little magic is a good thing.

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. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay
3. House Finch**
4. Mourning Dove
5. Black-chinned Hummingbird
6. Spotted Towhee
7. Rock Pigeon*
8. Black-billed Magpie**
12. Black-headed Grosbeak (v)
10. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
11. Common Raven
12. American Robin* (v)
13. Sharp-Shinned Hawk
13. Warbling Vireo
9. Black-capped Chickadee (v)
11. Pine Siskin (v)
17. Song Sparrow* (v)
18. Lesser Goldfinch**

Elsewhere

19. California Quail
20. House Sparrow
21. Eurasian Collared-dove
22. Red-tailed Hawk

Mammals

Red Squirrel
Rock Squirrel
Mountain Cottontail

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