Cobirds:
The city of Boulder has opened the Mt. Sanitas trail loop. You can access via Dakota Hogback or 3rd Street (via the Goat Trail) or from Centennial parking area. You have to walk in if accessing it from Mapleton Road, as the police are only allowing local traffic up Mapleton \ Sunshine. And Centennial parking lot is closed.
The trail loop consists only of Mt. Sanitas and the Hogback - Sanitas Valley is closed due to braided trail and extreme erosion.
Most of the bird life I saw today was near the summit and some of it was surprising:
Peregrine falcon - flying by at mach 5
Red tailed hawk - 2
Yellow rumped warbler - 16
Spotted towhee - 5
White breasted nuthatch - 8
Rock wren - 7 (scattered along the trail system)
White throated swift - 2 - near the summit
Pygmy nuthatch - 14
Black capped chickadee - 14
Mountain chickadee - 1
Common raven - 4 - flying in tandem
Lesser goldfinch - 1 immature male
Pine siskin - 3
Clark's nutcracker - 21 - assumed migratory group flying right by the summit, from south to north
Stellar's jay - 13
The main summit trail is in good shape. The Hogback trail is a morass of mud. There were lots of people on the trails.
Walden \ Sawhills is open but very restrictive. The main parking lots are open, but most the main trails are still closed. You can access the boardwalk at Cottonwood Marsh and the adjoining pond to the south, but that's about it. Painted turtles are out (they must think its spring with all the water). All ponds are filled to capacity.
John T (Tumasonis) Louisville CO
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