Trip Report - Rock Creek Canyon

Last Saturday (9/6), six Laramie birders visited Rock Creek Canyon. It was a picture-perfect day and all enjoyed our hike along Rock Creek, searching for American Dippers and watching a variety of forest birds. Most of the group turned around after a couple of hours, but the subset of that continued up canyon completed the trip with the following list: 

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  American Dipper, Rock Creek Canyon, 9/6/2025
  Photo courtesy of LAS member S. Rankins

  Dark-eyed Junco 
  
• Mountain Chickadee 
• Red-breasted Nuthatch 
• American Robin 
• Stellar's Jay 
• Clark's Nutcracker 
• MacGillivray's Warbler
• Swainson's Thrush 
• Northern Flicker 
• Hairy Woodpecker 
• Belted Kingfisher 
• Townsend's Solitaire 
• Bald Eagle 
• Red-tailed Hawk 
• Cooper's Hawk 
• Northern Pygmy-owl