Category: USA trip

I’m standing on the prairie in Montana and the sun is shining. Prairie is a wonderful thing – it’s a work of art and a work of technology. The technology bit is that prairie acts like a finely designed machine. The grasses and flowers that make it up, hundreds of different species, are well-adapted to…

I’ve spent much of the last four days in the Black Hills of Dakota in Western South Dakota.  Some of it in rain, some with a flat tyre, but even so I can see why Doris Day wanted to go back.  Maybe she hadn’t quite seen all the region’s birds either. But the bird list…

Yesterday I woke fairly early and the sun was shining so I wrote a blog about black birds by the side of the road.  It was too early to get the tire fixed. Here is some very valuable information for anyone who gets a flat tire in Custer, SD on the Sunday before the holiday of…

I have spent a lot of time in the car and, as a result, see lots of roadside birds.  Many of them are black. Starlings are still with me – I have seen starlings every day of my trip and that includes Starlings hopping round near bison. Larger than a Starling but similarly iridescent when seen really well,…

Today I drove around the southern Black Hills of Dakota in the rain.  I saw a few Bison, I saw some birds and I had a nice day. I also learned what I did, really, already know, that I really should check where the jack, wheelbrace, spare tire etc are just in case I get a flat after…