It was a long transfer from Gunnison to Silverthorne but we managed to do a bit of birding on the way. We’d stopped off in the town park in Buena Vista to follow up on reports of Lewis’s Woodpecker. A couple of circuits of the park failed to produce the goods but we did add Hairy Woodpecker and Pine Siskin to the trip list. A friendly local asked what we were looking for and when we told him he said you need to head up to the Post Office. We did and there they were! You’ve got to have a bit of luck sometimes. We arrived at our overnight location by lunchtime and decided to hit Loveland Pass for our next target – White-tailed Ptarmigan. No luck despite a couple of hours searching but the place was over-run with skiers, snow-boards and hikers. A chance meeting with a couple of birders led to a great piece of detective work by Jane. According to the women there were reports of Rosy-finch and some other goodies close to Silverthorne. Checking on eBird we found a couple of reports but the locations didn’t tally. Jane eventually worked it out and we headed off, having checked in to the Luxury Inn & Suites, to a new development on the edge of town. It took a bit more detective work before we found a house with garden feeders but then the show began! A constant changing cast of birds as they visited the feeders before flying back into the forest: Clark’s Nutcracker, Pine Grosbeak, Brown-capped Rosy-finch, Crossbill, Mountain & Black-capped Chickadee, Pygmy Nuthatch and more! It was nice to have a bit of luck for a change.