Lately there’ve been a lot of flickers in the neighborhood. You hear them first, then—if you’re lucky (as I was this morning)—you might sneak up and grab a photo.
Today I saw four Northern Flickers (and heard a couple others). Also had a couple of Downy Woodpeckers. Those are the only woodpecker’s I’ve seen here. Which reminds me that I’ve not seen any Utah owls yet—no doubt because they don’t frequent my patch when dog and I got hiking.
Also saw a whole lot of Pine Siskins today all of a sudden. More than a dozen. It’s fun stroll quietly along a deer trail with a sort of secret knowledge that something’s up in the natural world—especially when we can usually hear most other folks we meet on the trail long before they come into view.
(Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 8:02 a.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.
1. Black-billed Magpie* (v)
2. House Finch*
3. Pine Siskin*
4. Black-capped Chickadee**
5. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay**
6. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
7. Spotted Towhee
8. Northern Flicker**
9. Downy Woodpecker
10. American Robin
11. Dark-eyed Junco
12. Red-breasted Nuthatch
13. Black-chinned Hummingbird
14. Lesser Goldfinch* (v)
15. Rock Pigeon
Elsewhere
16. California Quail (v)
Mammals
Rock Squirrel
Red Squirrel (v)
(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
