Author: Steve

Black-crowned.

They’re not everywhere in the world, but they are in some places all over the world.

And yellow-crowned.

Found only in the Americas.  Quite a bit in the Eastern U.S.

Two different species.  That’s a record for us.  First, in the bird blind at Laguna Vista Nature Center, a deeply colored long tailed ocelot walked through the underbrush, without giving us a clear view, but enough to be sure what it was.  Then, later on a trail, still at Laguan Vista, a bobcat popped out.  Long-legged, paler and grayer color, bobbed tail.  I didn’t get a good picture, just this one from his south end.

I learned years ago not to play Sudoku right before bed.  It’s a repetitive thing, and if I get that machine in my head going, and there is nothing else to distract it, the machine just keeps going and going and going; making up imaginary Sudoku patterns and solving them.

Last night’s mistake was to do a round of Spanish on Duolingo right before bed.  Got the machine going again, lying there making up imaginary situations that would accommodate my limited knowledge of Spanish, then coming up with words and phrases that would address them.

Sleep would have been more appropriate.

We find javelina in all sorts of habitats.  I came up on this one in a wide-open grassy field.

He waited until I got pretty close before he decided to create some space between us.

Cool birds.  Big.  Like chickens.  And loud.  I’ve sent out pictures of them before.

They’re also interesting because they don’t always look exactly the same.  More character.  Here is one fluffing up to lie down in the dirt.

Looks so comfy.