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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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.
