Steve and Judy's Travels!

 

But since our place has wheels, we’re celebrating the arrival of the new year at Falcon State Park.

 

Falcon State Park map

 

The post for every other site is bagged (alternate sites).  Nice separation.

 

 

 

 

We have a great yard.  The bird feeders are all hung.  We have ten different attractors.  Songbird seed blend; fruit and nut blend; dried mealworms; whole peanuts in the shell; hummingbird food;, cake suet; homemade peanut butter, cornmeal, lard blend suet paste; finch seed sock feeder; marshmallows; and a water mister.

 

This will be our home for five days.

 

 

You never know what exotic places birding adventures will take a person to.  Like here.

 

 

What are the chances we’d have ever given these oil storage tanks a second look if there weren’t two crested caracaras standing on them?

 

 

 

 

We follow two college teams.  We get to root for both of them in the same bowl game Tuesday.  Go teams!

 

 

 

I don’t know if a lot of cities have these, or if they’re more of a border thing.

 

Mobile observation posts.  I think they’re mostly for security and for border protection.  They can pop up anywhere.  Sometimes I see them in shopping center parking lots, sometimes in parks like this one, sometimes just at intersections.  Sometimes they’re out in desolate areas that hardly have any traffic at all.

 

Low-tech and obvious, but they’re probably meant to be obvious as a deterrent for whatever it is they’re trying to deter.  The windows are pimped, so we don’t even know if there is really anyone in there at all.  Maybe they’re just decoys.

 

 

On another subject, leaning over a jigsaw puzzle is a lot harder on the low back than I recalled, when I thought this was a good idea.

 

 

 

8 power, just like binoculars, but it’s a monocular.  Click a button, and what you’re seeing appears as a photo on your cellphone.

 

 

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The long-lens on my camera is essentially a 10 power, so this wouldn’t be that much different.  I could look at a bird and shoot it with one machine instead of two.  Brilliant!  Maybe I need this!  (Too bad I didn’t find out about it until after Christmas this year.)

 

Of course, it might be like trying to design the perfect car by crossing a sports car and a pickup truck and getting something that isn’t as good as either, but it sounds really cool!