There were twelve Rosy Finches at the Fawnbrook Inn feeders (Boulder County) at noon today, ten Brown-capped and two Gray-crowned (Interior). I then drove Ski Hill Road south of town looking for Pine Grosbeak and didn't see any, but had an awesome adult male Northern Goshawk. Went back by the feeders at 1:30 and after ten minutes the same group of Rosies showed up. I'm thinking there were larger numbers in the area but there were no mesmerizing, swirling large flocks, in fact both times I saw these twelve birds they just appeared in the trees above the feeders before I knew they were coming in. It was between 7 and 11 degrees, snow cover, in spite of me arriving at noon it seemed like an ideal day for some Rosy Finches to appear, and I was pleased to see just these twelve.
Other birds were Hairy Woodpecker, Mountain Chickadee, White-breasted Nuthatch, Dark-eyed Junco (mostly pink-sided), Steller's Jay, Black-billed Magpie, probably 140 Pine Siskins, Common Raven flyover, and three Wild Turkeys near the beginning of Ski Hill Road, scratching under a feeder Junco-style and looking like large, beautiful yard pets.
Dan Stringer
Larkspur, CO
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