On our third, and final, day, Jayne and I travelled to Tuolumne Meadows, at a height of approximately 10,00ft. The landscape was very different here, with a much more open feel and fewer trees.
We started at the Visitors’ Centre, before taking a short
2-mile across the meadow to the River
Tuolumne and Soda Springs. We had great views of several Yellow-rumped
(Myrtle) Warblers, Mountain Chickadees, White-crowned Sparrows,
Brown-headed Cowbirds, Dark-eyed Juncos, American Robins, Brewer’s
Blackbirds and a Red-tailed Hawk. The birding highlight of this
trip, however, was a pair of breeding Killdeer, with 2 well grown young
on Soda Springs.
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Mammals seen here were: Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels,
Belding Ground Squirrels, Lodgepole Chipmunk and Yellow-bellied Marmot.
Insects seen were: Mormon Fritillary, Orange Sulphar, Clodius Panassian and a Meadowhawk (dragonfly) sp (possibly Cardinal).
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