Hi cobirders. I selected the Sunday field trip hoping it would lead
me to the Black-chinned Sparrow.
But the trip stayed on the main Devil Kitchen route which led up a
series of large stone steps where my
rollater could not go. So stayed back to find birds . The trip did
not find the sparrow either and so my
son and his wife and I decided to go by ourselves because it was not
easy for me to keep up. I did see
several birds including Gray Vireo.
Monday We went back early to the National Monument. Going on the
Devil Kitchen wide path to the
"No Thoroughfare" path to the right. It was a single file path but I
was able to fold the rollater uo
enough and still use it and the path was mostly level and smooth so I
made good time to the gulch
which had a narrow strip of mud and some water. Here the Black-
chinned had been seen days earlier.
People came up the creek and path to stop here. I waited on my seat
above a little ways until they all
left. About 15 minutes or so later three Black-throated Sparrows
came near where I saw them. They
are neat birds. We had to leave for home soon after without going
further and not able to get the
rare ones. Several had found the Black-chinned but most had not.
Bob Spencer N.E. of Golden
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