Apologies for the late posting of this blog – yesterday was a great day but ended with difficulties in finding accommodation, difficulties in finding a meal and impossibilities in getting onto the internet. Never mind. Where was I? The last ‘live’ update you got from me was just before I went to talk to Tucson…
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A bit random – blog 36
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If you are reading this it means that I have spent today without time to write a blog. This will, I hope, be because I have been seeing loads and loads of birds with Richard Fray. Seen: Bumper sticker – Obama so loved the poor that he decided to make millions more of them Billboard…
A red letter day – blog 35
You get two blogs today for the price of none. Today has been a lovely day – although I am writing this in a Starbucks in Tucson before giving my talk this evening so maybe it’ll all go wrong. It’s been an easy day. I woke around 6am and set off from Ajo towards Tucson…
Aha, Ajo – blog 34
If you are reading this then it’s because I didn’t have time to write a blog ‘today’ because I was giving a talk to Tucson Audubon – so I wrote this ‘yesterday’ (except that another blog follows this one – I spoil you really). This is a very useful website as it gives you bird…
I drove through the desert – blog 33
I drove through the desert in a car with no name early this morning to avoid the heat. The alarm was set for 5am but I awoke a little earlier so I was at Alamo Canyon by 0530. There were jackrabbits and cottontails, there were organpipe cacti and ocotillos, and there were Gila woodpeckers, ravens,…
On the border – blog 32
Around here they go for short names. Up the road is Gila Bend where there is a ‘famous’ ‘space hotel’ where I stayed on my last trip. But this time I took the road south towards Mexico and the Organpipe Cactus National Monument (one down (?) from a National Park?). You know the organpipe cactus…
Leaving California – blog 31
I’m not sure abut how I feel about California. With a population of 38million it is the most populous of US states, and indeed it would rank as the 12th largest economy in the world in its own right, so it isn’t to be ignored. I’ve spent about two weeks here – partly to see…
Finished business – blog 30
Even the ladies in Andrea’s cafe had seen roadrunners and they didn’t seem that interested in birds. I am interested in birds and I started off another day not having seen a roadrunner. There is a terrific mural of a roadrunner on the Joshua Tree-29 Palms road – it must be about 20 feet long…
Unfinished business – blog 29
It’s funny isn’t it. I’d never seen a coyote until I saw three looking at a bison calf in Kansas but now I am seeing them all the time. The other evening I had something like 10 coyote sightings and I must have seen about 30 or more on this trip. So having seen wile…
On the road, mostly – blog 28
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Today has been mostly a driving day, the first for quite a while. And it occurs to me that I won’t see the Pacific Ocean again on this trip (unless I get very very lost!). My last view was while looking at green hairstreak habitat restoration with Liam near the top of a hill in…