Author: Steve

Rocky Point Nature Trail. A lakeside trail in Glacier wandering the edge of McDonald Lake on the Fish Creek side until it loops back up over the ridge. Pines, firs, cedars, hemlock, streams. Cool calm morning. The bugs were a problem at first. We forgot about the bugs when we got into the birds. Juncos, flycatchers, warblers, and woodpeckers. Saw a northern flicker. Heard a pileated. And saw a new woodpecker for us: three toed. A swath of forest along the trail burned out six years ago. Three toed woodpeckers like that. Several of them, males and females both, flaking the burned bark off standing trees. We watched and watched and finally walked away. That’s a pretty good look at a life bird, when you finally give up and walk away while he’s still there.

Four years in the Beaver Monterey. It’s a good place to be. We mean to still be driving this on our twentieth anniversary in it. We’ll be the funny old people driving the classic coach a Dad points out to his kid and says: “Check it out son. That’s what motorhomes used to look like.”

We usually stay out in the open, but this time we’ve stuffed into a forest campground. A tight fit, but no problem. It’s good to be in the forest.

Changing latitudes. Changing habitats. Swarms of black capped and mountain chickadees. Red breasted nuthatches. Pine siskins clogging the feeders. Cedar waxwings by the hundreds gorging on berries, evening grosbeaks.

We saw a chimney swift. But chimney swifts aren’t here. Vaux’s Swift. Life Bird! Number 505.

One of my tasks at Taylor, Roth and Company is to expand our exposure. I’m doing that with promotional material and the website. I’ve managed to get our website up to the first page if you Google “Nonprofit CPA Colorado”. The Travel Blog is part of the overall effort. Websites, Blogs, Facebook, Twitter. Social Networking. It’s all about connecting with people. Some of those people might even be interested in our website and what we do.

We use tracking software to see how we’re doing. It’s fun to see where the people are that are looking. Check out the visitor map for the work website:

And for the Travel Blog:

Our dissection of the country is complete: