Day trip. Went the opposite way today. Out of the mountains onto the plains. Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. Nice place. Lots of birds to look at. They have wood ducks (in eclipse plumage).
No boreal chickadees, barrow’s goldeneyes, or spruce grouse. Building the Canada bird list though. Nice excuse to drive to Calgary.
Internet was slow again, so we repointed the dish. The dish went way out of whack so we decided to stow it to reboot it, then put it back up again. It stalled. It stalled in the “UP” position. Trouble. Can’t move the coach much with the satellite dish fully extended. A few phone calls from Judy on a Sunday afternoon and Dave, the guy who takes care of our dish when we’re in south Texas, talked our dish into submission. It’s down, but it’s not going up again until we’re in the vicinity of a repair man. Don’t know when or where that will be. Not many places work on this satellite dish. No internet on the air card either. Before we crossed over into Canada, Judy called and asked about cellphone and air card rates in Canada. Verizon said the cellphone will be $.65 a minute and we should take the air card out and put it away so we can’t accidentally use it. If we use the air card from Canada, it and all the other air cards at our office, will go to international rates. We don’t know how much international rates are. I guess we don’t want to find out. So until we cross paths with an internet signal, our trip reports will just go into a holding pattern in the ozone.
Meanwhile, back at camp…
A good size black bear munching his way through.