Steve and Judy's Travels!

  A woodpecker walk in the forest each day.  The first day the forest was empty.  Today produced eighteen birds, including three woodpeckers.  No target bird yet though.  No red cockaded woodpecker.  No brown headed nuthatch.   The satellite work is done today.  Two more days to find the woodpecker and we move on regardless.      

  Reacquainted ourselves with the satellite guy (David).  He spent all afternoon on the roof.  The dish equipment is predictably corroded as a result of our life on the beach.  Every fitting he tries to fix comes apart in his hands.  He has applied a temporary fix (think duct tape).  The more permanent fix will take longer (think more parts).   Got an afternoon woodpecker walk again.  Got a really cool bird; a LeConte’s sparrow.  That’s not a bird we usually get on our own.  The only time we’ve ever seen him before was with professional help.   Here is a picture of the sparrow.  This is not my picture.  I got that good a look at him, but he is an elusive bird.  My look was brief.     Tuesday   We stayed home from work to watch the Inauguration.  Quite a moment.    

  A woodpecker walk in W. G. Jones Forest State Park.  Mature pine trees.  We got seven birds.  We got the largest woodpecker (Pileated), and the smallest (Downy), and a couple in between (Golden Fronted, Red Bellied)  Didn’t get the target bird, the Red Cockaded Woodpecker.  Maybe Monday.   So far we’ve gotten thirty birds at the RV Park and seven birds at the place we go birding.  Maybe we should have parked the motorhome in the G. W. Jones Forest, and driven to the RV Park for birding walks.   Found Hey Boy’s Barbeque.   Here’s a picture of the pipit.   Monday: Satellite dish repair guy.  

The campground.  Brother David should recognize this.