Whew! Done! Made the eighty-hour CPE requirement before the end of the
year. Even had one day to spare. Really, I meant to start earlier.
Port a
On the way here, we did a mixture of driving, birding, and CPE. I have a
certain amount of continuing professional education to get done by the end
of the year. I can do it online, and I’ve got a lot of it done, but now,
that’s about all I have time to do for the next few days, is get my CPE
finished.
Junction
Monday. This is a popular place, Davis Mountains State Park. There haven’t
been very many people for the couple days we’ve been here, but that is about
to change. The campground is completely full with reservations for the next
week. Something about the week between Christmas and New Year. Time for us
to move on. We’re done here, anyway. East for a few hundred miles on
Interstate 10. Stopped at South Llano River State Park outside Junction,
Texas. Another great birding place. While at Davis Mountains and Llano River, we’ve seen 44 birds, including
acorn woodpecker, black phoebe, chihuahuan raven, horned lark, carolina
chickadee, tufted titmouse, cactus wren, rock wren, carolina wren, bewick’s
wren, sage thrasher, brown thrasher, green tailed towhee, tons of canyon
towhees, rufous crowned sparrow, black throated sparrow, white throated
sparrow. The chihuahan raven and rufous crowned sparrow are new birds for
us. Quail are conspicuously absent from the list. The quail score: Quail 3,
Taylor 0. End of the first round. This isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon. We’ll be
back.
Port a
In Colorado, the humidity has been running in the twenty percent range. We
dropped to New Mexico and the humidity dropped into the teens. Dry skin.
Even as late as yesterday, in the Texas Hill Country, humidity was in the
twenties. Today, we finish the day at Port Aransas, Texas. Seventy-five degrees, a
sea breeze, and humidity: sixty percent.
Davis mountains
Our camp at davis mountains. Very open oak grasslands forest.