Date: 10 March 2015 Time: 1240 - 1510 Weather: Sunny, mild I took a leisurely walk/hike up Mt Reynolds Park today. I only saw 11 species and managed to lug my camera the entire time without taking a single picture. I did, however see a Dusky Grouse that flushed from 25 feet above me on a hillside. Also, in a mixed flock of Mountain Chickadees and Brown Creepers, I saw a Golden-crowned Kinglet.
This is only significant to me because it had been 2,136 days since my last G-c Kinglet sighting. For all of you literature majors** out there, that is less than two months short of six years. My half decade long bout of futility has finally ended. That futility included at least two dozen days last year specifically devoted to questing for this species. So, on to new and better goals. I think I'll now try to get a better picture of a Golden-crowned Kinglet than the one I have from 2009. I'm getting the sense of deja vu. I'm getting the sense of deja vu. The grouse was up Eagle's View Trail. The kinglet and company were on Raven's Roost near the bottom of that trail. ** I was truly just joking about the literature majors, so I hope I didn't offend anyone. I was just picking a major that wasn't math related. It takes a highly intelligent and ambitious person to even under take getting the noble degree of literature (too much?). Happy Birding John Breitsch Denver, CO https://www.flickr.com/photos/breitschbirding/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cobirds+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cobirds@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/c5134217-85e7-48cf-8224-8a8f8bd57647%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
