life bird

A day trip in the Jeep. We drove a short loop from Breckenridge, over Hoosier Pass (Continental Divide), through Alma, into South Park, left at Fairplay, left at Como, dirt road over Boreas Pass (Continental Divide), and back down to Breckenridge. Maybe fifty miles altogether. Not very birdy; mostly scenery; but remember that pine grosbeak I almost got in Estes Park, but couldn’t quite find? There was a bird standing in the road at the top of Boreas Pass. We stopped the car to look at him and there it was: the elusive pine grosbeak. A female. The picture we took isn’t very good. We took it through the windshield. But LIFE BIRD. That’s good.