Birds 2010 and 2011

Okay this is way out of sync - my blog I can do it. Some are from my trip to Mass in 2010, some are while in AZ 2010 and others are 2011 in Texas.

Whimbrel

Plain Chachalaca

Tri-Colored heron

Black Bellied Plover - reflected

 Silly Roseate Spoonbills walking the high wire!

He did make the pass as you can see above.

A sleeping Common Paraque

Look hard and you will see the Common Snipe

Sunset at Amesbury and this is 2010 just off Plum Island, MA

Rookery at High Island

Cerulean Warbler

Snout Butterfly

King Rail

The Common Paraque in camo position.

Rail thinking the hood has gone to Bud.

White Eared Humming bird - 2010 Arizona

Flower High Island

Least Bittern with lunch.

Crested Caracara on a cactus

Green Heron looking mad.

Audubon Oriole - 2010

Common Yellowthroat

Chestnut Sided Warbler - 2010, Plum Island, MA

Lizard, I think Anole, not sure

OKC is cool

Last night the temps were in low 60's. Was that nice or what? BUT...will get up to the mid 90's today. This heat simply will not be denied it's turn to torch us.

Will run out today and have lunch with some friends with whom I used to work. That will be fun. We did this back in June and had a really good time. Then on Saturday another GTG with a couple of friends. Aaahh the friends are what this life is all about....retirement! I love it. Each day is just a little bit better.

Trying to get the webcam to work on this computer of my friend and it just isn't not that easy. The system doesn' recognize that it has a webcam. So to get it turned off, did she just uninstall it? She doesn't know. So I'll continue working on it for a bit, then I'll in the big dogs. (I'll go to their web site!) So it goes......

O K L A H O M A

Here I come....Will hit the road Monday to Oklahoma. Will go by and visit with my sister for over night and then on to OKC to visit with friends and get my hairs curled. Will only be gone for a week. Should be fun.....Hhuummmm since the tornado tore up the RV Park where I stayed earlier this year for my Mom's funeral, wonder where I'll go this time. May have to dry camp at the farm. Weather should be great.

IHOP in Schertz

I met up with Colleen and Vicky at the IHOP for breakfast and visiting. Had a really great time. Hopefully I'll get caught up with the whole of the blog and then you'll see what I mean.

Maybe it is this away! Ya think?

Or maybe this away!

 But they both respond to "Hey ya'll"!

Vickie says read my shirt!

"I may not be as normal

as I first appear"

After the visiting we picked up books at Colleens and took them to Vicky and picked up a monitor at Vicky's for my friend Pam. Then I had to make a stop at my brothers for mail, a trip to the CU and then to Wal-Mart and back to my brothers to await my SIL.

Dinner at Chesters...very good hamburgers and fries. Then had to run takes about an hour to drive back to my place.

Potters Creek-COE camground

Decided to make a trip to Potters Creek campground. I like it most of the time. On the weekends it can get loud and roudy, but mostly it is nice a quiet. Made it in good time and all conditions were pretty much a go. Got parked and sitting in a nice spot. It is one of my favorites.

I have noticed only 3 of the Egyptian Geese. Last year there were about 12 or so. There are lots more deer. Looking pretty skinny and several young fawns are still sporting spots. They really need to thin them out. Before they will start being sick and then not making it thru the tough times.

Hopefully it will cool off here before long and then rain they keep promising will come to sit on our roofs.

Goliad State Park

Left Goose Island and spent two nice days at Goliad State Park. The first days I decided to mail my binocs off to the manufacturer to have them serviced. I have had them ten (10) years and never had them serviced. While I was at the Hummer Festival a couple of the Swarovski reps suggested that I send them and have them serviced especially before I head out to Alaska. They indicated the wait time could be a couple of months but to not send them in around hunting time as they are always sooooo busy. So I called Monday and talked with the Customer Service folks and sure enough they had a 3-4 week turn around. Now in my little mind that is nothing. After I got set up at the park I took off for the local discount store, Dollar General. Picked up a role of bubble wrap and then went to the local pharmacy to get something for my fire ant bites and then around the corner to the Post Office. Got a box, tape and label got everything ready and find out that there is a 'communication failure' here in Goliad. Now I new there was something wrong because I could not pay my camping fee at the State Park as the system was down. But alas, I had Cash. So I could pay my fees. Some folks had to go home and get their check books because they only had debit or credit cards. Anyway I got mine shipped. Can't wait to get them back.

Will do some maintenance things tomorrow. Then I'll get ready to head back toward the home base.
Communications problem is making my cell phone and data card very slow. Good strong signal, but over loaded. Won't get things posted while I am here.

Last Day of Festival

Currently in Rockport for the Hummingbird Festival. It ran Fri, Sat and Sun with some early home shows on Thursday. Lots of hummingbirds down here. The most I have ever seen. I come down as frequently as I can for the festivals. When I lived in Texas I came a lot, then it wasn't so easy. Last year I was tied up and this year was make up time. The Ruby throated HB's had a great year by the looks of the birds we are seeing. They are plump too. Was worried that with our drought and the one in Oklahoma that they would doing poorly. They are quite voracious little buggers too. I have been filling my llittle feeders about one liter every two hours. Of course, if I had those huge feeders I'd just be filling them 3 or 4 times a day. Have had some really nice Buff bellied HB show up. A very few Rufous/Allen's type show up, too. They are really out of range, while the Buffy's are now year round here.

Will be leaving here on Tuesday and headed north. Has been a really nice stay here at Goose Island State park. It is always a nice stay, unless the mosquitos are bad, so far they aren't but it will only take a few days and a new batch will hatch as a result of the rains the last two days.

Ron and T left and got home about 3:30. They had a blow out on the Jeep about George West on I-37. They had the Hi-Lo which is 22' travel trailer. Glad that wasn't me. I need to be sure to check my air tomorrow so I can air up before I take off.