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Wednesday

Georgia pines.
Warm southern rain.
Sixty-eight degrees at dawn.
We drove past Atlanta and Macon. Settled at George L Smith State Park north of Interstate 16, east of Savannah.

Elevation: 308 feet.7,295 miles.78 degrees tonight.

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September bird list

To people reading our travel reports, it probably seems like we never work. To birders reading our bird list, it probably seems like we hardly bird. Mostly Colorado. A little bit of Wyoming and Nebraska. 84 birds. We only recorded 84 birds in an entire month!

1 Canada Goose
2 Gadwall
3 American Wigeon
4 Mallard
5 Northern Shoveler
6 Pied-billed Grebe
7 American White Pelican
8 Double-crested Cormorant
9 Great Blue Heron
10 Great Egret
11 Snowy Egret
12 Cattle Egret
13 Green Heron
14 Turkey Vulture
15 Osprey
16 Bald Eagle
17 Northern Harrier
18 Swainson’s Hawk
19 Red-tailed Hawk
20 Ferruginous Hawk
21 American Kestrel
22 Peregrine Falcon
23 Prairie Falcon
24 American Coot
25 Killdeer
26 Lesser Yellowlegs
27 Wilson’s Snipe
28 Franklin‘s Gull
29 Ring-billed Gull
30 Rock Pigeon
31 Eurasian Collared-Dove
32 Mourning Dove
33 Great Horned Owl
34 Black-chinned Hummingbird
35 Broad-tailed Hummingbird
36 Belted Kingfisher
37 Downy Woodpecker
38 Northern Flicker
39 Western Wood-Pewee
40 Say’s Phoebe
41 Western Kingbird
42 Loggerhead Shrike
43 Red-eyed Vireo
44 Blue Jay
45 Black-billed Magpie
46 American Crow
47 Common Raven
48 Horned Lark
49 Barn Swallow
50 Black-capped Chickadee
51 White-breasted Nuthatch
52 Rock Wren
53 Canyon Wren
54 House Wren
55 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
56 Mountain Bluebird
57 Townsend’s Solitaire
58 American Robin
59 Gray Catbird
60 Northern Mockingbird
61 European Starling
62 Cedar Waxwing
63 Yellow Warbler
64 Common Yellowthroat
65 Wilson’s Warbler
66 Spotted Towhee
67 Chipping Sparrow
68 Clay-colored Sparrow
69 Brewer’s Sparrow
70 Vesper Sparrow
71 Lark Sparrow
72 Lark Bunting
73 Savannah Sparrow
74 Song Sparrow
75 McCown’s Longspur
76 Red-winged Blackbird
77 Western Meadowlark
78 Yellow-headed Blackbird
79 Brewer’s Blackbird
80 Common Grackle
81 House Finch
82 Lesser Goldfinch
83 American Goldfinch
84 House Sparrow

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Times of our lives

  In 1966, in the first third of our lives, Judy and I arrived in Clarksville, Tennessee, just south of Ft Campbell, with everything we owned in a 1959 Plymouth station wagon.  We were just starting out.   Here we are, over forty years later, grandparents, in the third third, driving through Clarksville, Tennessee, with everything we own in our RV.   It’s a different time.    
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Leaving St Louis

We’re headed warmer. Through the Southern Illinois rolling deciduous forests. Across the great Ohio River into Kentucky with its tobacco fields going yellow, Past Ft Campbell. Past the Swine and Dine Barbeque Restaurant. To Tennessee with rivers winding through it. It doesn’t seem to matter where you are, or what direction you go in Tennessee; you cross the Cumberland River.
We’re in Montgomery Bell State Park outside Nashville for the night.

Elevation 385 feet.
6,800 trip miles.