Laundered money. ?????
Laundered money. Laundered money. We see some strange things
Like these white things.
A white moth.
Kind of cool looking.
It might be a white tiger moth.
A white moth. Kind of cool looking. It might be a white tiger moth. Have I mentioned
…that in spite of all the talk about birding, I’m not actually a very good birder? I don’t have the quick eye to spot small movements. Other people often locate little birds before I do. My hearing is limited. Little birds overhead calling in high pitched voices are silent to me. I don’t even know they’re there unless someone tells me to look up. I don’t have the sharp memory to be able to visualize the key identification characteristics of every bird. I have to try to hold the detail of what I saw in my head until I can go look it up in a book. But, in spite of my shortcomings, I persevere. I fall back on the words of my racquetball coach from ten years ago. “Never underestimate the power of insane persistence.”
Birding
Mostly it’s about sitting and watching birds; or walking and watching birds. Sometimes though, it’s about numbers. We have a 600 bird milestone coming up. Now we have to figure out how to define it. We have 599 birds on our World life list. One more bird and we’re there. That’s not much of a big deal though. There are over 10,000 species to see worldwide. We will have seen 6% of them. Most of our birding has been in North America, so we should pick a different measure. We have 595 birds on our North American life list. That‘s no big deal either though. The North American bird list includes Mexico. There are over 2,000 possible species. We could probably take one trip through Mexico and double our count. There are about 1,000 species possible in the ABA area; North America excluding Mexico. There are about 925 species possible in the lower 48. We should either go to Canada and Alaska, or use the lower 48 count as our measure. We have 587 species on our lower 48 list. We’ll get to 600. We just have to figure out when to declare it. Then we can move on to our next milestone.
At Lake Texana
…earlier in the week.
Out on the fishing dock.
This little 6 foot gator spotted us.
…and came right over to check us out.
We had a moment.
If we were going to fish…
…we were going to have to get anything we caught past him!
Out on the fishing dock. This little 6 foot gator spotted us. …and came right over to check us out. We had a moment. If we were going to fish… …we were going to have to get anything we caught past him!