Trip Report Part 9: Snowy Range, WY (Aug 11)

I'll keep this one short and mostly let the photos speak for themselves - in part because it was short - for around three hours on Saturday, our group left Laramie and drove into the Snowy Mountains to the west, to get another one last shot at alpine habitat.

Golden-mantled Ground-Squirrel

My life Pine Grosbeaks

Left to right: Me, Ben, Scott, Erin, ShawnSame faces as above, minus Erin, plus Brian:
My lists. My lifers are in caps. X's indicate no counts. TMTC = too many to count.

Mammals

LEAST CHIPMUNK (Tamias minimus) - 3
Colorado/Uinta Chipmunk (Tamias quadrivittatus or T. umbrinus) - x
Golden-mantled Ground-Squirrel (Spermophilus lateralis) - x

Birds

American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) - 3
Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) - 2
Swainson’s Hawk (Buteo swainsoni) - 3
Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) - 1
American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) - 1
Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) - 2
Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia) - 9
Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina) - 1
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Stelgidopteryx serripennis) - 1
Mountain Chickadee (Poecile gambeli) - 3
ROCK WREN (Salpinctes obsoletus) - 2
American Robin (Turdus migratorius) - x
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendroica coronata) - x
Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) - 1
Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerine) - 3
Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus) - 1
White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) - 2
Dark-eyed Junco (Junco hyemalis) - x
Chestnut-collared Longspur (Calcarius ornatus) - 2
LAZULI BUNTING (Passerina amoena) - 1
Brewer’s Blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus) - 2
PINE GROSBEAK (Pinicola enucleator) - 3
CASSIN’S FINCH (Carpodacus cassinii) - 6
Pine Siskin (Carduelis pinus) - x


Part 10: The End