We had a very interesting, informative and relaxing day. We spent most of the day bird watching.
We ventured up to the rec hall this morning and had coffee with a group of people. Some we had met last year and some are newbies.
We went over to the bird blind and sat and waited for some of the birds to return after being scared away by a bunch of red winged blackbirds.
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| the upper most woodpecker is the female and the male is more colorful |
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this apparently is a rare sparrow - I will find it's name out tomorrow
this is an Olive Sparrow |
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| the roadrunner showed up at our campsite and I was glad to get its pic |
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| Mockingbird eating peanut butter |
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| lots of these little warblers |
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| Ladder backed Woodpecker |
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| Inca Dove scrounging around for seeds on the ground |
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| Virden at the orange halves we hung in the trees at our campsite |
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| bush rabbit that frequents our campsite |
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| these birds are members of the Cardinal family |
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another visitor to our campsite this afternoon
We went to Roma, a town 14 miles away to get bird seed and of course we had lunch at Whataburger. It's the only fast food chain of restaurants that we like. The burgers are great.
From the birding center we wandered over to the banks of the Rio Grande River and looked across at Mexico.
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| looking across the Rio Grande River at the entry into Mexico |
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Rio Grande River
The birding center in Roma has a butterfly garden and we were fortunate to see a lot of butterflies flitting amongst the shrubs.
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| Red Admiral Butterfly |
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| Queen Butterfly |
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| this butterfly stayed on this orange half for a long time |
Beautiful butterflies found out their names from people at the rec hall.
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| the Yucca are just starting to bloom |
Sally and Mark gave us a Cudde Back or deer cam and we installed it tonight on one of the legs of the picnic table canopy outside our motor home. We caught two interesting creatures right off the bat!
I think we are going to have some fun with this camera! I can't wait to see what appears on it overnight.
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