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Weekend update

On Saturday, a batch of our mail caught up with us. Included in this mail was a jury summons to appear in person at at 8am, at the courthouse on Leopard Street, Corpus Christi, Texas, Tuesday, May 30th, or face a $1,000 fine.
It’s May 29th.

We’re in Colorado.

I plan to throw myself on the mercy of the court, by telephone, first thing tomorrow morning, Tuesday the 30th.

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Weekend

Saturday was the Iron Horse Classic. Two thousand bicyclists whizzing past our campground, racing the steam train 52 miles uphill to Silverton. We stood next to the road and cheered them all on. Sunday was the Indy 500. We watched the whole thing on television. After, we went out to wildcat canyon and got the cassin’s kingbird, along with clark’s nutcracker, jays, all three bluebirds, and vesper sparrow. Monday we went to the junction creek campground and got grace’s warbler. The slam dunk, can’t miss lead, actually worked! They were right where they were supposed to be, high in the ponderosa pines. Then we went to a park in Bayfield and got the cordilleran flycatcher. Two more new birds for us, along with lewis’s woodpecker, red naped sapsucker, lots of yellow warblers, a couple American redstarts, dark eyed junco, and chipping sparrow. All three of the leads came off the same internet reference. That worked out well. Tomorrow, thankfully, it’s back to work, so we can get some relief from all this intense birding……
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Birding

Birding was good in Steamboat. We didn’t get the sage grouse or the juniper titmouse, but we did get to list about fifty birds. Birding in Leadville was not as productive, but we were only there for two nights, and got twenty-five. Durango. We got a lead off the internet, drove south on highway 550, west on highway 160, south on county road 141, and southeast on county road 136, an unpaved road on the indian reservation. Three miles in, we found the Cassins’s Kingbird. Not an unusual bird…., if you’re in Arizona or New Mexico in the summer. We got to see him without getting that hot. A new bird for us. Cassin’s Kingbird. Tomorrow…. The can’t miss, slam dunk, Grace’s Warbler near a campground west of Durango. Again, not an unusual bird….., if you’re in Arizona in the summer.