And, after all that, I discover I didn’t send the owl picture I meant to send.
Here is the real owl picture. Burrowing owl. On a post.
Here is the real owl picture. Burrowing owl. On a post.
Burrowing owl
The elusive burrowing owl. We’ve waited years to spot one. When we got this one, we spent twenty minutes watching and taking pictures of him. When we finally drove on, we found another standing on a post within half a mile, then another, then another. Altogether, we saw five of them standing on posts. Actually, they don’t live on fence posts, they live in prairie dog burrows. Later, we did see some on the ground in and next to burrows.
From: Steve Taylor [mailto:steve@taylorroth.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 11:07 AM
To: spt@thetaylorcompany.net
Subject: burrowing owl
Dillon
The previous time through, Dillon looked like this, rain and snow mix.
Dillon
This last time over, however, completely different.
Aspen
So here we are, ensconced in Basalt. A new job in Aspen, twenty miles up the valley. This is the only campground along the whole Roaring Fork Valley, so we always stay here for Aspen work. We got a better spot than we usually do. Most of the sites are back-to-back utilities. It’s a tight park. This time we got a back-in spot along the back fence. Roomier. Much better. We don’t usually see cedar waxwings, but we get to see them every day here this trip. Nice looking bird. Next week…. Our friends at the Physics Center in Aspen. We’ve been doing that job for about twenty years.