
Another nippy morning, with temps in the 40s (F). Sweatshirt weather, for sure—until the sun tops the ridge, at which point things warm up in a hurry.
Evidence of migration still: many yellow-rumps, a couple of kinglets, robins headed south. Also more flickers than I could shake a stick at. I’m listing a count of ten, but I feel like that’s an undercount, for sure. At one point I found myself watching five in the same tree. In another tree, three.
They’re handsome birds, the flickers are. I do love fall migration.
Grandeur Peak Area List
At 7:25 a.m. (8:25 MDT), I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.
1. House Finch**
2. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay
3. Lesser Goldfinch* (v)
4. Black-billed Magpie
5. Rock Pigeon*
6. American Robin (v)
7. Yellow-rumped Warbler
8. Northern Flicker
9. European Starling*
10. Spotted Towhee (v)
11. Black-capped Chickadee
12. Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Elsewhere
13. Barn Swallow
14. Song Sparrow (v)
15. California Quail
Mammals
Red Squirrel
Rock Squirrel
(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere