October 31, 2009
Gary Weston: Ray Foster, Richard Stevens and I went to the mountains in search of Rosy Finches and Ptarmigan.
On the trip up, we saw a flock of 20-30 Rosy Finches fly across the highway at the Silver Plume exit. Just in time, Richard was able to pull off at the Silver Plume exit. We followed the flock to the rocks behind the fire station north of town. Most birds were Gray-crowned Rosy Finches with about 5 Brown-capped mixed in the group. Unfortunately, no Black Rosy Finches were in the flock.
We didn't find any Rosy Finches in Summit County and returned to Loveland Pass in Clear Creek County for a Ptarmigan search. We scoped the eastern slopes for a good 2 hours without seeing any birds.
Then we scoped the western slope across from the first pullover south of the pass. Here we had better luck. Only one Ptarmigan was found, but that was good enough.
For "fun", we hiked up about a mile on the western slope from the parking lot. There were plenty of Ptarmigan tracks but no birds. Man that is a hike!
Gary Weston: Ray Foster, Richard Stevens and I went to the mountains in search of Rosy Finches and Ptarmigan.
On the trip up, we saw a flock of 20-30 Rosy Finches fly across the highway at the Silver Plume exit. Just in time, Richard was able to pull off at the Silver Plume exit. We followed the flock to the rocks behind the fire station north of town. Most birds were Gray-crowned Rosy Finches with about 5 Brown-capped mixed in the group. Unfortunately, no Black Rosy Finches were in the flock.
We didn't find any Rosy Finches in Summit County and returned to Loveland Pass in Clear Creek County for a Ptarmigan search. We scoped the eastern slopes for a good 2 hours without seeing any birds.
Then we scoped the western slope across from the first pullover south of the pass. Here we had better luck. Only one Ptarmigan was found, but that was good enough.
For "fun", we hiked up about a mile on the western slope from the parking lot. There were plenty of Ptarmigan tracks but no birds. Man that is a hike!
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