Sunday, May 13, 2012

A Day In the Mountains

May 12, 2012

Richard Stevens:

Bryan Ehlmann and I took four out of state birders to Guanella Pass (Clear Creek).  Over the next three hours we criss-crossed the hill southeast of the parking area.

Finally, we found a pair of White-tailed Ptarmigan about 50 yards south of the top of the hill (mountain, by flatlanders' standards).

We managed to put binoculars on a male American Three-toed Woodpecker at the Guanella Pass Campgrounds.  No Dusky Grouse or Hermit Thrush was seen today.

After a late and long lunch in Fairplay, we drove to Kenosha Pass (Park County).  A Dusky Grouse was seen just before the gate along the road heading east from Highway 285.

Williamson's Sapsuckers and Red-naped Sapsuckers were seen in the Aspen Grove about a mile southeast of the gate.

At dusk and dark, I managed to draw in a Flammulated Owl (east of the Twin Cone Peaks trailhead).

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