Molting birds made for a quiet bird-watching week, though the river’s unparalleled beauty and crisp rolling waters mean no float trip with us is ever a dull one! We still saw 21 bird species this week, including a Rufous Hummingbird and a Barrow’s Goldeneye, though the highlight of the trip was seeing a roly-poly marmot with its tail bouncing in the air as it ran.
As migrating birds begin to fly through the area in the coming weeks we are bound to see and identify more species, so our upcoming Jackson Hole float trips are ones you won’t want to miss!
Canada Goose 12
Mallard 3
Barrow’s Goldeneye 1
Common Merganser 5
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 11
Killdeer 1
Spotted Sandpiper 16
Rufous Hummingbird 1
Northern Flicker 1
Western Wood-Pewee 27
Black-billed Magpie 14
Tree Swallow 43
Cliff Swallow 20
Black-capped Chickadee 3
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
Mountain Bluebird 1
American Robin 4
Cedar Waxwing 2
Yellow Warbler 11
Song Sparrow 4
Yellow-bellied marmot 2
Least Chipmunk 2