Snowed a lot overnight, as forecast. Didn’t really stop snowing all day (at least not for very long)—but during the first semi-lull in late morning, Captain Jack and I headed up the street to the trailhead.
We weren’t the only ones up there. (Met a couple hiker friends and their dogs.) But we did walk a good long way on virgin snow.
And saw birds! Including a pair of eagles, in fact, tittering at each other way up amid the snowflakes. (Too obscured for a decent photo.) Then back home at my desk, I spied a Sharp-shinned Hawk out the window.
Good hike, big snow, and decent birding.
Grandeur Peak Area List
Beginning at 11:15 a.m., I hiked a few hundred feet up the mountain.
1. House Finch* (v)
2. Northern Flicker*
3. Black-billed Magpie*
4. Black-capped Chickadee
5. Golden Eagle
6. Lesser Goldfinch (v)
Elsewhere
7. American Robin
8. Sharp-shinned Hawk
9. Eurasian Collared Dove
(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
Tags: American robin, black-billed magpie, black-capped chickadee, Eurasian collared dove, golden eagle, house finch, lesser goldfinch, northern flicker, sharp-shinned hawk
