December 16, 2016
Richard Stevens:
As part of the CoBus sponsored eleventh, Georgetown Christmas Count Terry Michaels and I snow shoed to the top of Guanella Pass. This required a little over 3 mile round trip.
Temperatures were fair for Guanella Pass, around 20 degrees. Fortunately, the wind was less than 20 mph. I have done this trip in the past with winds in excess of 50 mph.
Our efforts were rewarded with a sighting of 31 White-tailed Ptarmigan just below the summit! Six Brown-capped Rosy Finches circled overhead for several minutes.
Later we found male American Three-toed Woodpecker drumming on a Ponderosa Pine at the Campgrounds. Other birds in the same area included two male and two female Pine Grosbeaks and a flock of ten Red Crossbills.
The weather went downhill shortly after noon. We called tomorrow's ninth annual Cameron Pass/Gould Christmas Count off to avoid birders driving on the icy/snowy roads. Terry and I however, headed to Gould by way of Kremmling.
No Rosy Finches were found in Kremmling or Sulphur Springs.
After dark, we relocated a Boreal Owl just west of Cameron Pass!
Richard Stevens:
As part of the CoBus sponsored eleventh, Georgetown Christmas Count Terry Michaels and I snow shoed to the top of Guanella Pass. This required a little over 3 mile round trip.
Temperatures were fair for Guanella Pass, around 20 degrees. Fortunately, the wind was less than 20 mph. I have done this trip in the past with winds in excess of 50 mph.
Our efforts were rewarded with a sighting of 31 White-tailed Ptarmigan just below the summit! Six Brown-capped Rosy Finches circled overhead for several minutes.
Later we found male American Three-toed Woodpecker drumming on a Ponderosa Pine at the Campgrounds. Other birds in the same area included two male and two female Pine Grosbeaks and a flock of ten Red Crossbills.
The weather went downhill shortly after noon. We called tomorrow's ninth annual Cameron Pass/Gould Christmas Count off to avoid birders driving on the icy/snowy roads. Terry and I however, headed to Gould by way of Kremmling.
No Rosy Finches were found in Kremmling or Sulphur Springs.
After dark, we relocated a Boreal Owl just west of Cameron Pass!
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