Another Trip to Estes Park 2/15

I met up with Scott Rashid to go looking for Evening and Pine Grosbeaks. Scott has a friend that has both of these birds, so a trip up there would happen. When we pulled up there were a lot of birds around, but no grosbeaks. I was able to get some photos of a Hairy Woodpecker though.

                                                  Hairy Woodpecker

After waiting about 5 minutes we found a Evening Grosbeak (133) sitting in a tree behind the house. We ended up seeing 11 Evening Grosbeaks and they were going back and forth from the first tree to the feeder. We were not able to find any Pine Grosbeaks while we were there, but we were able to see one of my favorite birds with the Evening Grosbeaks.

                                                   Evening Grosbeak

                                                     Evening Grosbeak

                                               White-breasted Nuthatch

Then we decided to go on a hike at Cow Creek to try for other mountain birds I still need for the year. Unfortunately I didn't though. We did have some interesting birds though including Brown Creeper and Hairy Woodpecker. Overall was a fun day and I ended up with one year bird.