I first reported on this in 2009. It’s this goofy fruit we only ever see when we’re in Missouri and I can barely remember the name of it each time.
Nobody likes them. They fall off the tree and clutter the ground.
Nothing really eats it. It’s speculated that it co-evolved with mastadons and mammoths and lives on now for no apparent reason.
Northern Cardinal
Green Jay
Golden Fronted Woodpecker
Curve-billed Thrasher
House Sparrow
Muscovy Duck
Jesse
0, 0, 0, 115
Zero miles to go to get to Fairbanks. Done that!
No birds remaining to get to 500 for the year! Just made it.
No continuing education hours to go. Made that too.
And still 115 counties in which to report a bird to have all 254 counties in Texas and fill in the map completely.
It wasn’t a goal to get all the counties recorded in Texas in 2019, we just highlighted it to track our progress. Maybe we should set that as a goal for 2020; record at least one bird in every county in Texas, or at least get all the edge pieces. Or we could do Colorado; that would be much easier; not nearly as many counties; only 64.
Arizona was so easy we’ve already done it! Only 15 counties.
An interesting thing happened to our bird life-list while we were working on our year-list. Our life-list got bigger. In normal years, we add five or ten new life-birds to our list each year. In 2019, by going after every bird we could get to make it to 500 for the year, we added 27 life-birds!
Here are the December lifers:
Home from all my trips. That was a great adventure, but I don’t see traveling by myself again any time soon. Judy is doing well; mostly over her shingles bumps and pain. It’s back to Advil level.
Happy New Year! We stayed up as late as we could!
Maybe a year ago, how to segregate restrooms was a big deal. There was lots of talk about how to identify which gender was using which restroom, and who should be accommodated. Here is how they resolved the issue at the San Diego airport in California.
There are all the normal men or women restrooms, then there are these scattered about. I love it. Why make anything harder than it needs to be?
The sign for this restroom reads: Anyone can use this restroom regardless of gender identity or expression.
