Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Return to Pike National Forest and Pine Valley Ranch Park

June 8, 2009

Richard Stevens:

Ivan Ebershoff, Cassie Gore, Bill Cryder and I hiked the 7.4 mile loop at Pine Valley Ranch Park and Pike National Forest. I found an adult male Three-toed Woodpecker at 400 feet south of the Skipper Trail and 400 yards east of the Buck Gulch Trail.

We also saw Western Bluebirds, Mountain Bluebirds, Hairy Woodpeckers, White-breasted Nuthatches, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Pygmy Nuthatches, Western Wood-pewees, Cordilleran Flycatcher, Brown Creeper to name a few.

I want to send a message to Gregg C who looked several times last week. Once we were in the area I told you about, it took almost 2 hours to find a Three-toed. A Virginia's Warbler was in the willows along the Narrow Railroad trail and west of the far bridge.

Two American Dippers were along the Platte River at 1.2 miles east of Pine Road.

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