My Colorado Trip Day 4 Part A

I woke up and went out to my new favorite spot for birding at 8 am.  My friend Mike was going out too and he decidded to go with me to see what we could see.  We play golf together and has learned a lot about birds since I have been educating him on the birds that we see while I play.  We get to the location that I was returning to, a berry patch that the birds have been going to, and what comes walking out so non-chalantly but this Dusky Grouse!  It just looks at me and walks down the path in front of me:

Just as it gets out of my sight, a see a movement to my left.  Another lifer!  Here is a Black-headed Grosbeak.  It stayed around for just a second, then flew out of sight.

I looked back over to where the Hermit Thrush was the day before and I saw a pair of them stirring deep in the brush, so I sat and waited for them to come out to the berries.  Just when they started to come out our friend the Grouse came back and scared them off, so i got another picture of it as they flew off:

After the grouse left it got quiet.  I didn't expect Mike to just sit there and wait, so we continued down the path until we saw this Olive-sided Flycatcher:

 Further down the trail, another lifer a Green-tailed Towhee.  I never got a money shot on this bird but got pics of all of the identifying marks on different pictures, but who wants to look at a picture of the butt of a bird? :

Further down the path I came across a House Wren and got a decent shot of it.  This is turning out to be a fantastic walk, even though there is the issue of oxygen deprivation.

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We got to the bottom of the trail and came across this Red-naped Sapsucker.

8:45 PM - September 20, 2009 - post comment

Lifers...

Thanks for the great pics Dave; these are all lifers for me too! Seen the yellow bellied sapsucker in my back yard last winter, and now I've seen the Red- Naped! Didn't know there was a Black-headed Grosbeak...wow!! Love it!

Doug in Clear Lake City - 11:03 AM - September 22, 2009

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great grouse!


Dale
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Dale Forbes - 4:01 AM - September 26, 2009