Still a few more days left fall, but today seemed rather like a winter’s day. Dog returned in fine shape for our morning hike, with three or four fresh inches of snow on the trails. Not many birds, but a bunch of deer.
The highlight was my forgetting to zip up my pouch pocket after changing the GoPro battery, leaving my Garmin EDGE to tumble out into the soft snow somewhere. I retraced my footsteps (twice, the second time with Jack) and managed to find the thing while kicking the snow on the trail.
(Not the first thing I’ve recovered here after losing it along the snowy trail.)
Grandeur Peak Area List
At 9:21 MST, I hiked a few hundred feet up a mountain.
1. Black-capped Chickadee
2. Woodhouse’s Scrub-jay
3. Black-billed Magpie* (v)
4. Rock Pigeon*
5. Northern Flicker
6. House Finch**
7. Dark-eyed Junco
Elsewhere
8. Red-tailed Hawk
Mammals
Mule Deer
(v) Voice only
*Also elsewhere
**Voice only elsewhere
Tags: black-billed magpie, black-capped chickadee, dark-eyed junco, house finch, mule deer, northern flicker, red-tailed hawk, rock pigeon, Woodhouse’s scrub-jay
