My wife and I recently spent a few days at our cabin in the Colorado Mts. It
is on the Blue R. about 9 miles north of Silverthorne and is at 8900 ft.
altitude. While at the cabin or on walks nearby I recorded the following.

Canada Goose
American Kestrel
Blue Grouse
Mourning Dove
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
Three-toed Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Western Wood-Pewee
Steller's Jay
Gray Jay
Black-billed Magpie
Common Raven
Mountain Bluebird
American Robin
White-breasted Nuthatch
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Black-capped Chickadee
Mountain Chickadee
Pine Siskin
Cassin's Finch
Red Crossbill
Evening Grosbeak
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Lincoln's Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Green-tailed Towhee
Black-headed Grosbeak
Brewer's Blackbird
Brown-headed Cowbird

On Sept. 10 we went to the Arapaho NWR near Walden and saw the following:
Pied-billed Grebe
Eared Grebe
Ruddy Duck
Canada Goose
American Wigeon
Gadwall
Green-winged Teal
Mallard
Northern Shoveler
Redhead
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Great Blue Heron
Northern Harrier
Swainson's Hawk
Prairie Falcon
American Coot
Killdeer
California Gull
Mourning Dove
Black-billed Magpie
Barn Swallow
Savannah Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Lark Sparrow
Also saw American White Pelican and Common Merganser at Windy Gap Reservoir
near Granby.

On the way back to Wash. State we stopped at TNC's Yampa River Preserve about
19 miles west of Steamboat Springs. An area of good habitat that should be
good in spring or early summer.
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Red-tailed Hawk
Belted Kingfisher
Lewis's Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Steller's Jay
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Cedar Waxwing
American Robin
White-breasted Nuthatch
Black-capped Chickadee
American Goldfinch
Cassin's Finch
Song Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird

Additional birds seen from highways included Golden Eagle in Wyo.,
Ferruginous Hawks and White-faced Ibis in Utah, and Chukar in Idaho at World
Center for Birds of Prey near Boise. A worthwhile place to visit anytime.

After we got back in Wash., we visited the Whitcomb and Crow Butte Units of
the Umatilla NWR where we saw the following additional species:
Western Sandpiper
Double-crested Cormorant
Ring-billed Gull
Western Meadowlark
Forster's Tern

Hugh Jennings
Bellevue, WA
hughbirder at aol.com