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| Jessica Feis photo |
I’m a long ways from that college kid who worked summers for the Predatory Bird Research Group, helping release Peregrine Falcons back into the wild in The Sierra Nevada. Nonetheless those summers honed my eyes for identifying an eagle or falcon at distance in a glance.
While our Come Ashore adventures didn’t include official birding forays, I kept a good pair of binoculars at the ready under the passenger seat as we traveled through two national parks and more national forests and BLM land than I could count.
Despite time spent in Yosemite and along the East Side of the Sierra, I did not see a Peregrine this trip. Nonetheless, I was pleased with many of the sightings. Following is a list of birds IDed as we drove, hiked and played our way through California, Nevada, Colorado and Wyoming this August (no real order here albeit vaguely grouped by family):
Golden Eagle
Band-tailed pigeon
Common nighthawk
Black-chinned hummingbird
Broad-tailed hummingbird
