A strange morning. It was cloudy. It’s always sunny in the morning then clouds up for the afternoon. Red winged and yellow headed blackbirds, grackles, brown headed cowbirds, and finches on the feeder. Horned larks, lark sparrows, and doves in the grass underneath. Sandpipers piping from both sides of the pond. Orioles in the bushes at the edge. Geese and pelicans in the water. Herons and egrets at the edge. Robins, kingbirds, and killdeer in the fields. Swallows flying through. The kingfisher rattles a strafing run across the water. The osprey lurks. It’s a busy place here.
St vrain state park
We really like it here at St Vrain State Park. It’s not like a fancy RV “Resort” though. The location is handy, but it’s a little close to the freeway. If there is no breeze, or the breeze is from the east, you can hear the freeway. That’s better than if the wind is from the north. With a north wind we get to savor the intoxicating bouquet of Greely stockyards thirty-five miles north of us. If there is wind from the south or west, the prevailing direction though, all that other stuff goes away. This camping loop is so new; it’s a work-in-progress. And good news for us, we’re told they’ve gotten the funding to pave the dusty dirt access roads this fall. We’ll like this place even better then. All things considered, it’s hard to beat this front-yard view.
Grosbeaks
Grosbeaks
The blue grosbeak came to visit us in Texas during the migration. In Colorado we got evening grosbeaks. The evening grosbeaks were not worn out from flying across the gulf, so it was harder to get a clear picture.
St Vrain State Park
Gone from Matt’s house. We’re back at St Vrain State Park. One more week here and we’ll have worn out our welcome though (at the state park, hopefully not at Becky’s). There is a two-week limit each forty-five days at each state park.
Becky is picking Christie and the boys up from the airport tonight, so this week we’ll get to visit with even more family.
Wimbledon starts today (if you have the tennis channel). Network coverage starts on the weekend. We’re working on an A/V upgrade. The Video/DVD player/recorder setup never really worked very well. Couldn’t get it to record something while we weren’t here. We’re getting a DVR satellite box so we’ll have a little more control over what we watch when. Hopefully we can let the DVR just run, and pick the matches we want to watch as we go along. The early matches are interesting because you get a combination of familiar faces and people you would otherwise never see or hear of. We get to see more than the top four players.