We slept in since the roads to the Dusky Grouse place were impassable. Birded around Steamboat Springs on 20 Mile Road, then after lunch went up Rabbit Ears Pass, stopping at Muddy Creek Trailhead, and to Walden. After dinner we checked out the drive to the Greater Sage Grouse lek in snow and then ice fog. I’m afraid I’ll be in the car without front wheel drive tomorrow and won’t get to see the displaying birds unless the weather improves. I’m thoroughly sick of snow, but feel selfish because the drought has been so bad here.

Day’s birds:

Sow Goose
Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Cinnamon Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
* Greater Sage-Grouse
Eared Grebe
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Cooper’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Golden Eagle
American Kestrel
American Coot
Sandhill Crane
Killdeer
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Mourning Dove
Northern Flicker
Gray Jay
Steller’s Jay
Clark’s Nutcracker
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Common Raven
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Mountain Chickadee
Mountain Bluebird
American Robin
European Starling
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Cassin’s Finch
House Sparrow