Correction: After a few hours of thinking about this post, I realized the county is incorrect. These sighting were in Teller County. Aaron
On Saturday, September 7, 2013 2:18:04 PM UTC-6, Aaron D. wrote: > My wife and I decided to hike the Catamount Reservoir Trail this morning. > We parked at Green Mountain Falls and walked up some really steep hills to > get to the trail. I was looking forward to seeing alot of bird activity, > but was greatly disappointed. We arrived at South Catamount Reservoir > after a 1.5 hour hike, with very few birds seen. > On the way back it was a different story. > We spotted an Osprey eating something (too far away to confirm, probably a > fish). > 2 Williamson's Sapsuckers > Clark's Nutcracker > Dark Eyed Junco > 4 Turkey Vultures > Mountain Chickadee > Unidentified Sparrow > Robins > > When we were about 1 mile back down the trail, on our way back to Green > Mountain Falls, we ran into a group of four hikers. They probably saw my > binoculars and camera strapped on my back and assumed we were birding. > Yes, we were! > One of the ladies in the group says to me: "We just saw two ptarmigan on > the trail just a few hundred yards that way." (pointing east) > I thought to myself, this is going to be a good day, a new life bird. But > then I reallized that it was probably an incorrect identification. > I was right, they were Dusky Grouse. But that's ok. Got some really good > looks up close. > > A beautiful hike. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/93843744@N06/ > > Aaron and Pati Driscoll > Colorado Springs, CO > > > -- 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/70cd3da1-bbac-4208-9467-e90303f492c6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
