Memorial Day Weekend

Well, it continues to be a cool spring.  Hail, snow, rain, wind and a bit of sunshine for the Memorial Day Weekend.

A new bird today, though I had seen it down the road, a Tricolored Blackbird.  That's two different species that aren't suppose to be in this area.  The Black Backed Woodpecker and now the TC Blackbird.  I'm sure I have id'ed them correctly.

The major residents this year are the Chipping Sparrow along with the Pine Siskin's.  Big flocks of both of those.  Didn't have the Sparrow last year, had huge flocks of the Siskin though.  The Doves, Quail, Jays, Robins, Mt. Chickadees and Juncos are all well represented at the feeder.  Others come and go, a few at a time.

I have been going out doing some Geo-Caching the last few weeks.  Decided to break my "consecutive number of days" total.  Well, I only had a 4 day streak, so shouldn't be too hard to double that!  Made 8 days in a row today.

I did verify that staying off of the lava flows around here is a really good idea with arthritic knees and ankles!  Well, I had to try.  Don't mind hiking the buttes, but I'll just have to give up on rocks.  It's amazing, every year I can do just a bit less than the year before.

Can sure tell the valley people are over here "vacationing".  Motor cycles tearing up the backroads and some one is target shooting a few houses away.  The wind and cold is keeping them out of the water, so they need to tear something up. Sigh.

I remember back in the 70's we had a year with out a summer.  It feels like we maybe headed to another one of those.  In fact, it snowed on July 4th that year.

Geez, I sure could use a bit of sunshine!