CDT - Day 34 - Durango – One of Seven Project

5/28/15, Day 34

Durango

Friend’s Place – Nights Spent Alone: 7

0, 603.8 Trip Miles

Sunny

Day’s of Snow: 7 – Day’s of Rain: 11

# of Zero days: 4

Gila Crossings Final Total: 221

Totals

119 Lizards

48 Elk

30 Chipmunks

22 Cotton Tail Rabbits

20 Squirrels

19 Deer

9 Horny Roads

9 Jack Rabbit

8 Ground Squirrel

5 Snakes

3 Coyotes

2 Pronghorn

2 Toads

1 Mouse

1 Skunk

1 Rattle Snake

As today was yet another Zero Day in Durango I thought I’d share my bird list with you. It’s grown by leaps and bonds because of Rafiki. He is a birder and a good one. He’s done all kinds of bird studies and banded birds many times.

Common Raven

Spotted Towhee

grouse?

Black Throated Sparrow -NEW

Gambles Quail -NEW??

Turkey Vulture

Dark Eyed Junco

Killdeer

Scott’s Oriole – NEW

Titmouse

Western Kingbird

Hummingbird Board-Tail

American Robin

Western Scrub-Jay

Red-Faced Warbler -NEW

Stellar’s Jay

Common Merganser

Mallard Duck

Morning Dove

Canyon Wren -NEW

Western Tanager

Northern Flicker

Red-wing Blackbird

Barn Swallows

Violet Green Swallows

Zone-Tail Hawk -NEW

Osprey

Wild Turkey

Red-Tail Hawk

Mountain Chickadee

Western Blue bird

Great Blue Heron

Clark’s Nuthatch

White-Breasted Nuthatch

Chipping Sparrow

House Finch

House Sparrow

Western Tanager

Canada Geese

Scaled Quail -NEW

Canyon Towhee -NEW

Blue Grey Natcatcher -NEW

Yellow Rump Warbler -NEW

Graces Warbler -NEW

Williamson Sapsucker -NEW

Black-Throated Gray Warbler -NEW

Dusky Grouse -NEW

Vesper Sparrow -NEW

Piñon Jay 49

Gray Jay 50

Pine Siskin 51

House Wren 52

Swansons Hawk -NEW? 53

American Kestrel 54

Great Tail Grackle -NEW?? 55

Brewers Black Birds 56

Savannah Sparrow -NEW? 57

Black-billed Magpie 58

Evening Grosbeak 59

Lewis Woodpecker -NEW 60

American Crow -61

It’s great to hike with Rafiki. We make a good team. Our paces are pretty close and we get along well.

Catching up on my blogging

Now that New Mexico is done I have to say “WOW!”. I think like most people I believed it to be all desert, Indian Reservations, many Super Fund sites, Roswell and aliens, and satellite dishes.

Hiker Trash on Main Street DGO

It’s so unbelievably beautiful. There’s desert as you would expect, but there’s lush rivers like the Gila, amazing bluffs and cliffs filled with colors. High mountains covered with Ponderosa Pines. There’s vast high elevation meadows that go on for miles and the closer you get to Colorado the better it gets in my opinion.

This was one of my longest stretches where I was off the trail for any of my three thru-hikes. I was really looking forward to getting back to the trail but Rafiki and I were committed to hiking with each other, as well as splitting the cost of the rental car, and lastly I was looking to see Jill.

Back to Day 33, Forward to Day 35

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