tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3772703594629711092024-02-19T22:32:06.317-08:004catsandusA journalJules and Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168318824044630787noreply@blogger.comBlogger709125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377270359462971109.post-16694240599903510172014-02-26T18:02:00.001-08:002014-02-26T18:02:30.701-08:00Febuary in Arizona<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We've enjoyed another beautiful month in Arizona, great temperatures, sunrises and sets and visits with family.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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We saw the Chihuly Exhibit at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix.</div>
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We took in the Lost Dutchmen Parade in Apache Junction.<br />
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On one of the few cloudy days we had, we took in the Basha's Western Art Gallery in Chandler.<br />
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We took in a couple soccer games that Ken's grandkids played in.</div>
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Avocets are getting their breeding colors.</div>
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And I don't feel any older than I did last month.</div>
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January here in AZ has been warm and beautiful, while the rest of the country has been in the deep freeze. We picked the right place to spend the winter this year.<br />
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We did a little hiking and bird watching.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">My brother and his wife came down from IA for a visit and we had a good time.</span><br />
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He took a plane ride.</div>
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We visited Tonto National Monument and took the Apache Trail Drive.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Ken and I went to Gold Canyon to watch Yellow Bird do his award winning Hoop Dance.</span><br />
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That was our January.<br />
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Jules and Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168318824044630787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377270359462971109.post-23396231278660883952013-12-27T18:56:00.002-08:002013-12-27T18:56:50.666-08:00Birding in AZWell, 2013 is almost over and we had a pretty nice year looking for birds starting the year in Florida, then the states on our way home and then our travels to the NW and finally here in AJ, Arizona. I know the year isn't quite over and we could find a few more birds to add to our year list but as of today we have 308 species for 2013.<br />
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Usery Mountain Park is one of our favorite places to visit, here we will find the desert birds<br />
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like a family of Harris Hawks, and these birds for a sample<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gamble's Quail</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cactus Wren</td></tr>
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Another favorite site is Gilbert Riparian Wetlands where we will find wading birds, song birds and hummingbirds.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Say's Phoebe</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ring neck Duck</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vermillion Flycatcher found at Granite Reef Rec. Area</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Canyon Wren found at Boyce Thompson Arboredum</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Horned Grebe found at Veterans Oasis Park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pyrrhuloxia found at Boyce Thompson</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;">These a just a few of the birds we see in the area, AZ is a great place to bird you'll never know what you may find</span>.<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Soon we will start a new year and a new bird list, here's to another great year of birding.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">To a happy and healthy 2014</span><br />
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Jules and Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168318824044630787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377270359462971109.post-82583693918275951472013-11-10T18:50:00.001-08:002013-11-10T18:50:43.648-08:00Lake Havasu CityWe will be settling in for the winter tomorrow in Apache Junction after enjoying a few days in Lake Havasu State Park. It was so nice not to be crowded in and to have some very quiet nights. We woke up to quail and rabbits outside our RV. Our first night we had this spectacular sunset.<br />
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Lake Havasu City is of course known for having The London Bridge, brought over and rebuilt in 1970 by Robert McCulloch, an oil tycoon. <br />
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The city has also placed around the lake and river channels 21 1/3 size replicas of western lighthouses.<br />
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We wanted to spend some time here to visit the wildlife refuges that are near by. </div>
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We walked the peninsula trail at the Bill Williams NWR a couple of times hoping to see the Blue footed Booby, we didn't but we did see the White wing Scoter. We were disappointed in the auto tour route as it turned out to be a high clearance vehicle route.</div>
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We drove up to visit the Havasu NWR we could see some of it from the hwy but it's roads were for 4 wheel drive vehicles and the sloughs were dry. The river would be great to canoe though, we didn't see many birds just the usual coots, grebes and a few Am. Pelicans. </div>
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Lake Havasu was hosting a bicycle and jogging endurance marathon this weekend, we had bikes going though the state park and over the bridge and joggers and bikers all over the island.</div>
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Today we took a drive to see the Parker Dam, that's in the background in this photo, and we finally saw the burros on the road we kept being warned about. We stopped to take photos and they walked right up to our window, people aren't supposed to feed them but it seems they are quite the beggars.</div>
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We are looking forward in seeing our family in the next few days and spending the holidays with them.</div>
Jules and Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168318824044630787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377270359462971109.post-1966439752459264172013-11-05T18:49:00.000-08:002013-11-05T18:49:23.086-08:00VegasOur week is about up here at Sam's Town RV in Las Vegas, we have had a good time but we did miss not having the grandkids here to visit, they are now in AZ. Our favorite place to visit here is Henderson Birding Preserve, we can walk around the ponds watch the ducks and look for other birds we can add to our year list like the Gambles Quail, Roadrunner and Costa Hummingbird.<br />
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We drove out to the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, it is a large refuge north of Vegas. They are building a big beautiful visitor center which seems a bit much for a refuge with just a few short trails and the all roads in the refuge are for high clearance vehicles only even the road into the refuge is a rough gravel road. I think building better roads would be better than a fancy visitor center.<br />
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Another park that is very popular is the Red Rock Conservation Area just outside Summerlin, NV, we took the drive and stopped and walked the boardwalk where we did see a Hermit Thrush much to our surprise. <br />
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Before we moved down to Las Vegas we visited the Valley of Fire State Park which is between Mesquite and Vegas.<br />
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We did visit the strip Tuesday, Sam's Town has a free shuttle bus to the Strip and to Freemont St. so we took it down. We decided to see a couple of places we hadn't been before Circus Circus and the Mirage. It was a long walk to Circus Circus and back to the Mirage! We watched the free circus act and bought a ticket to see Mirage's Secret Garden with the beautiful white tigers and Dolphin pools. We didn't put a penny in a machine and we ate at Subway. Big spenders we aren't!!</div>
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I have cousins that live here and we called and had lunch with them, it was nice to see them it has been a few years.</div>
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We also like to visit the cactus garden at Ethel M Candies, they were decorating it for Christmas but we enjoyed it and saw a couple of birds. We of course went in and watched them make the candy and had a couple of free samples also had some ice cream. The candy factory was started by the Mars family, yes the very same who make M&M's, etc but the father wanted to create gourmet chocolates the </div>
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Ethel M Candies. They were making chocolates hearts for Valentines. <br />
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Maybe tomorrow I'll get some laundry done before we head down to Lake Havasu City, AZ.<br />
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Jules and Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168318824044630787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377270359462971109.post-86485335427485233532013-10-29T19:29:00.000-07:002013-10-29T19:29:02.547-07:00Scenic Southern UtahWe are enjoying our nearly two weeks here exploring the area and learning a little about it's history.<br />
We are staying in a nice RV park in Hurricane, UT, we haven't learned how it got it's name but it's close to Zion National Park and just a few miles east of St. George.<br />
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We started out visiting the state parks that are near Hurricane looking for birds, we did see a bat out in the day time as well as a lot of coots and a few ducks.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We took a drive over to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon which was a couple hours drive, we knew the lodge would not be open but the big 23 mile drive closes in Sept. but we did walk out to Bright Angel lookout, or rather Ken did I didn't quite make it.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">We did see the Kaibab Squirrel at the North Rim, it's a cute little guy that resides only around the North Rim.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We visited Bryce Canyon National Park, it was a two plus hour drive too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We also drove up to the Cedar Breaks National Monument where the visitor center and restrooms were closed for the winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">After our visit to Cedar Breaks we stopped at the visitor center in Cedar City and learned about their Heritage and Livestock Festival taking place that weekend. It sounded interesting so we took in some of the various activities, including the parade where they head sheep down the main street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We also learned about this machine that was invented in Cedar City to make it easier to bale hay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It seems hay needs some moisture to stay together in a bale and it is rather dry here and so as not to have to rely on the early morning dew they came up with this steam machine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">It was in the parade along with lots of old tractors, sheep wagons and horses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">There are several places that have petroglyphs, but this is the most famous and easiest to find at the Parowan Gap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Also we learned there are several places that have dinosaur tracks but the easiest to see and learn about them is at St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In 2000 Dr. Johnson was excavating for a new housing development and they found dinosaur tracks and to preserve them they built the museum over them and they add new finds to the museum all the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Of course there is a lot of Mormon history, Brigham Young sent followers to the area to grow cotton and raise silk worms. He also spent the winter here in his last years, this was his home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The St. George's temple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">A few miles east on the way to the North Rim there is Pipe Springs National Monument which was a Mormon dairy ranch also during the polygamy days when the US government was arresting the husbands many wives found it a hiding place, if the government couldn't find the wives the husbands were safe. I didn't get a good photo of the house but Ken found the Mather sign there (we try to find the Mather signs at all the National Parks we visit).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Pipe Springs is now on the Paiute Indian Reservation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">We also took in a photo exhibit of Dorothea Lange's at the St. George Art Museum, showing was a few of her photos she took for a 1954 article in Life Magazine, Three Mormon Towns , the towns were Gunlock, St. George, and Toquerville. We found it interesting with the politics of the time and how Life Magazine edited her story needless to say the folks of Toquerville were not happy with it</span></div>
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It was a chilly week, highs in the mid 50's but the mountains were beautiful in their fall colors and snow capped peaks. We took a couple of drives along the Alpine Loop which is in a National Forest so the restrooms were locked but some of the picnic areas were open that didn't make sense. <br />
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We went out to Antelope Island State Park and they didn't charge the usual $10 entry fee since the National Parks were closed we thought that was nice. The Salt Lake is really low so it is hard to see the birds out on it but there were hundreds of eared grebes and some avocets we also saw the bison and antelope on the island.<br />
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We found another nice state park to visit the This Is The Place Heritage Park where historical buildings have been moved in and many of the buildings have a reenactor to tell you the story of the building and Mormon history.</div>
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Before we left Salt Lake the National Parks and Refuges reopened and we took the opportunity to visit Bear River Bird Migration Refuge the duck hunters also took advantage of the reopening to head out to the refuge. I don't understand a refuge being open to hunters! We did enjoy the ponds filled with</div>
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Eared Grebes, Western Grebes, Clark's Grebes and some ducks but mostly Coots. We also saw lots of American Pipets along the road side.<br />
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On our drive out of the refuge Ken spotted this Badger, we had never seen a badger in the wild before.</div>
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We are now in a warmer part of Utah for a week, Hurricane, UT and the landscape looks awesome.</div>
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Jules and Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168318824044630787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377270359462971109.post-51094524081284478362013-10-06T19:48:00.001-07:002013-10-06T19:48:20.041-07:00Dairy, Dories and Dirigibles We've enjoyed four days of sunshine here in Tillamook, OR, the early mornings were very cool in the 30's but the sun was nice to see. This is where the Tillamook Cheese Factory has it headquarters and visitors center. Dairy farms have been here for years before the cheese factory and it has been here since 1909, the farmers had more milk and butter than they could use and so they hired a cheddar cheese maker and the rest is history. The farmers found this area perfect for their dairy cows as the grass is always green, they do have to truck in some feed but otherwise the area is perfect. There is also the Blue Heron Cheese Co they make brie cheese.<br />
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We also hit the beaches and did some beachcombing. The beach in Pacific City is famous for it's Dory boats and charters. These boats just run up onto the beach so watch out surfers and beachcombers.</div>
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We were seeing a couple of vintage warplanes flying around as we visited the overlooks and beaches so we stopped by the Tillamook Air Museum. It has a fascinating history of being one of 8 dirigible hangers left in the U.S., it was used during WWII and the dirigibles kept watch for enemy submarines. The museum has 30 vintage warplanes all in flying condition the sad part is the museum is closing in the next year and the planes are being moved to central OR. We didn't go in to see the planes but enjoyed seeing the hanger and the planes that were sitting out.<br />
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There is a great little Quilt and Textile Center in Tillamook and the city has a quilt square trail all through the town and around the country.</div>
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It's was fun looking for all the painted squares.</div>
The strange weather that hit the Midwest this week has us thinking that maybe we should start heading east and south before a big winter storm hits the high country.<br />
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This is the overlook at Ecola State Park part of Lewis and Clark National Park, the National Park is unusual as it encompasses 3state parks as well as National park areas in both Washington and Oregon.</div>
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We are just south of the mouth of the Columbia River the end of their trail where they made camp to spend the winter in 1808-9 before heading back east. They recorded in their journal only 12 days without rain that winter. Ecola Park is where they looked for a beached whale when they found it the Indians had cleaned it so they traded with Indians for some blubber and oil. </div>
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This is the Tillamook Lighthouse 1.2 miles off shore, wouldn't you like being a keeper out there, but it is no long in use since 1970's the birds have taken it over as a nesting area.<br />
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We visited the Seaside Aquarium where I enjoyed feeding the harbor seals and looking at all the sea creatures such as this fish. It is called the Tsunami Fish as it traveled over 4,000 miles in a Japanese fishing boat that washed ashore in Long Beach, WA found on March 22, 2013, it is a Striped Beakfish.<br />
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Sorry not a very clear photo of the river otters we saw at the lagoons in Cannon Beach. I used my little point and shoot camera a lot since I could put it in my pocket when it would start to rain.<br />
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We spent four days around the Twin Harbors area, at Westport in a nice RV park where we could hear the surf and the seals. This is some of the beach looking toward their look out tower.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We enjoyed going down to the marina to watch the commercial and private fishing boats go out and to find some birds such at the Pelagic Cormorants, Black Turnstones, sandpipers and gulls.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here is the Westport lighthouse, Ken enjoys climbing to the top but it wasn't open either time we visited. It is the tallest lighthouse in Washington, the light is not in use now.<br />
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Cranberry bogs are kept in the area, some nearly 100 years old and Ocean Spray has a plant near Westport. It is harvest time now and a local farmer developed the little harvester you see in my photo, no more flooding the fields. <br />
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We stopped by Westport Winery one rainy day tasted some wine, bought a couple of bottles and walked around their beautiful little gardens.</div>
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been seeing. One of these places was a little fishing village of Tokeland where Marbled Godwits spend the winter we went there twice this photo is from the second time in the evening and they were all on this old detached dock. There was a little pushing for standing space.<br />
The rain is back for the weekend and down the road we go to Oregon to Cannon Beach.Jules and Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168318824044630787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377270359462971109.post-38396985550436392022013-09-22T19:31:00.001-07:002013-09-22T19:31:31.945-07:00Twilight ZoneOur four day stay in Forks, WA pop.3500+8 1/2 vampires has been fun and very interesting. Stephanie Meyer of Phoenix, AZ put this town on the international map, it is the home of the fictional characters, Bella, Edward and Albert from the Twilight series. The town has enjoyed it's new popularity it just had it's 7 annual Stephanie/Bella birthday celebration which the author attended this year. The story came to her in a dream and she went to google to find the wettest, darkest place in the lower 48 to set her story in and it came up with Forks, it gets around 120 inches of rain a year.<br />
But sadly and to the disappointment of the town the films were not made here but the first one in OR and the rest in Canada. I certainly have learned a lot about Twilight, guess I'll add the series to my already very long reading list.<br />
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We have been enjoying the beaches of Olympia National Park and the rain forest between the rains.<br />
Our first beach was Ruby Beach, the tide was out and the sun was out and we stayed to see if we could get a sunset photo, but no a cloud bank came in and blocked the sun as it was going down.<br />
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I had fun finding the sea creatures on the rocks that are usually hidden by the water, they are so colorful.<br />
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This is beach One the native town of LaPush is along it. We saw a few surfers on the other side of the breakwater.<br />
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This is beautiful beach two, it's a 3/4 mile walk through the rain forest to this beach, we took our time walking down taking photos of the various fungi and crawly creatures. We didn't get down to Beach three it is a mile and quarter walk to it, we did walk some of it to see what fungi and creatures we could find.<br />
I am trying to download another beach we went to, but it won't let me. So I guess you won't get to see Rialto Beach.<br />
So on down the road we go tomorrow. <br />
Jules and Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168318824044630787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377270359462971109.post-77799816082548383422013-09-18T21:37:00.001-07:002013-09-18T21:37:14.591-07:00Olympic Peninsula<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Our week at Rainbow's End is up, we didn't see a rainbow but did have 4 days of rain and mist, just like the Washington I had pictured in my mind, foggy and rainy. The sun did come out for us the last two days. We did see a lot of the area but my pictures aren't very good and I didn't take very many.<br />
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We learned that Sequim is usually the driest place in the peninsula and it is the lavender capital of the US. Rainbow's End in in Sequim. John Wayne used to come up here in his yacht and his family donated money to build a park and marina in his name. <br />
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We did take a whale watching trip out of Port Townsend, it was very foggy that day so it turned out to be a disappointing trip. We did see the fin of a Minke whale but no Orcas and I really wanted to see them. We stopped at Friday Harbor on Juan Island for lunch. Port Townsend is very picturesque with quaint shops and a lighthouse and park we didn't have time to explore.<br />
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We went out to the Dungeness NWR around 4 times, the first three it was foggy and misting but we did find some interesting things, a newt, snail, banana slug, mushrooms and a few birds a Brown Creeper, and Spotted Towhees.<br />
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Dungeness NWR Spit<br />
The spit is the longest sand spit in the lower 48 and 5 miles down the spit is a light house. You can walk down to it, and it is rented out to those hardy people who would enjoy such an adventure.<br />
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We took the scenic drive to Flattery Point, it's is around 90 miles from Sequim and took around 3 hours, it's a curvy slow road.<br />
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Here at the Salt Creek Rec Area<br />
which is just off the road and has a beautiful campground and a WWII bunker. The tide was out and people were climbing the bluff that's isolated out in the water.<br />
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Flattery Point is on the Makah<br />
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Indian Res. and the half mile walk out to the viewpoint to see the lighthouse is interesting mostly on a boardwalk through beautiful woods.<br />
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Flattery Point we read is to be the most northern spot in the lower 48 but it doesn't look like it should on the map.</div>
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This is my first visit to the state of Washington and I was surprised by all the sage brush on the eastern side of the state it needs irrigation water from the Grand Coulee Dam to make it possible to grow potatoes, mint, hay and etc. The timber begins at Yakima Valley and there we see more fruit trees. I didn't realize the Columbia river was so big when we crossed the bride I thought we were crossing a lake.<br />
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We felt like we were roughing it for the week we stayed in Packwood, WA which is just outside the Parks Rainer and St. Helens. We had no phone, internet and only 30 amp service which means watching which appliances we can use, like the water heater or the microwave, air conditioner or the water heater, and having no phone and internet drove Ken crazy. We did have cable TV so we could watch Duck Dynasty and all those crazy programs. There also was no McDonald's or a Walmart but we planned for that, there was a Subway 30 miles away and Ken could use his phone there. We had a family of elk that would wonder through the park once a day and we could see Mt. Rainer if we walked to the corner of the park. Our first day was rainy, heavy rain in the evening so we had to move in our leaky slide. Sat. the sun came out and it was beautiful the rest of our stay, even a little too warm for this time of year. Sat. we headed up to Sunrise Pt. in Rainer, it was beautiful we even found several little birds, juncos, sparrows, evening grosbeaks and Clarks Nutcrackers and our first bear for the trip.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Day two we head in from the west side, hoping to see the Paradise area but the parking lot is full so we decide to try it another day. We find a parking spot at Narada Falls and we walk down to take photos of it, the lighting is perfect but I can't fit it all in my photo, I don't have a wide enough lens.<br />
We have a reservation to ride the Mt Rainer Steam Train that afternoon so we head to Elbe. The train is late in arriving from it's earlier ride as someone got a bee sting and needed attention, the bees are thick and everywhere at this time of year. The ride is two hours and it takes us to it's museum and station in Mineral where we see several other working steam engines and their work station.<br />
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On day three we drive up to Windy Point in Mt. St. Helen National Memorial Park. After 30 years most of the mountain side is still recovering but in some areas the park service has replanted some trees and Spirit Lake that was right in direct line of the explosion has recovered naturally. it was a beautiful resort lake surrounded by spruce trees there are still no trees now but the lake itself has recovered and now filled with fish again.<br />
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On day four we go back to the Paradise area and have no problem getting a parking place, we take a short walk to see Mrytle Falls and a bit beyond to get photos. The visitor center is now open and we take a look but no penny smasher, so we go back to the car and enjoy our Lunchables before taking another walk along Nisqually Trail. It takes us to wonderful views of the glacier and we can see the hardy people up hiking on the glacier.</div>
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On our last day in the area we go back to Sunrise to do some birding but it is windy so the birds keep low in the bushes and trees. The temp reaches 93 and breaks the record, so no microwaving that evening and we try the local burger shop, and have $10 burgers and fries, they were very good.</div>
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We are now in Sequim, WA and have phone, internet and 50 amps at Rainbow's End RV, it's a lovely area so visit again to find out what we see around the Olympic Peninsula.</div>
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We are back on the road again exploring a new area of the United States for me, Washington and Oregon.<br />
I have been debating with myself on continuing this blog as most of my friends and family see my photos on facebook, but there are few not on facebook so here I am again.<br />
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Our first stop was the Flaming Gorge on the border of Utah and Wyoming, there we saw some Big Horn Sheep along with the beautiful scenery.<br />
Next was a quick visit with Ken's son and his family which have a new daughter added to their beautiful family.<br />
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We spent a week visiting Yellowstone National Park, that's Old Faithful up there, we saw it a couple of times along with a couple of other geysers. There were 5 fires in the park but all the roads were open, we saw only one smoky area where the firefighters were on watch. We enjoyed photographing the bison and elk we would see along side the roads, we would usually see a family of elk on our drive back to the Grizzly RV Park in West Yellowstone. <br />
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We took a day drive down to the Tetons, there we enjoyed photographing a moose along the road.<br />
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We took a drive to Red Rock NWR a wetland area where Trumpeter Swans breed as well as many other wetland birds. The lakes are some distance from the road but we did see the swans, white-faced ibis and several hawks and sparrows. We also got a flat tire on our drive out, this was on a Saturday and the tire repair store was closed for the weekend, so we enjoyed the West Yellowstone's shops and museum. It was a really nice museum, small but the videos on the 1953 earthquake and 1988 fire were really interesting. We drove by the lake created by the earthquake on our way to Missoula, MT our next stop.<br />
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I have cousins who live in St. Ignatius just 25 miles north of Missoula, we called on them and had a very nice visit. We checked out the Les Metcalf NWR, the National Bison Range and Nine Pipes NWR over the Labor Day weekend and we added some western birds to our years list. We stopped and enjoyed the murals in the St. Ignatius Mission too. We took a drive up to Lolo Pass, just outside the town of Lolo there was a lightning fire that took 5 homes, the firefighters were still there watching for any hot spots.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> View of Mission Falls, from up the road from my cousins.</span><br />
We are now in Washington, so I now have visited all the western states. We stopped and droved through the Columbia NWR where we added some more western birds to our list.<br />
I am looking forward to our next stop the Mt. Rainer National Park and Mt. St. Helens. So more to come.<br />
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<br />Jules and Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168318824044630787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377270359462971109.post-6553447815977245632013-05-18T13:54:00.000-07:002013-05-18T13:54:02.647-07:00Back in MO<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Just a couple of photos of the birds around us. </div>
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We have been out birding looking for spring migrants the pretty little warblers, we have seen a few but I fear they have caught a good wind and continued north to their breeding homes. </div>
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We have had some nice birds at our feeders, a couple of new ones for us too like the above Indigo Bunting and a few Pine Siskins I believe they have left for their northern home now.</div>
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We've had a busy 3 days here in Mobile, AL doing some birding at Dauphin Island, Grand Bay NWR, Mississippi Sandhill Crane NWR, Bon Secure NWR and Gulf National Seashore the birds seen were few but colorful Blue Grosbeak, Indigo Buntings, Summer Tanager, Scarlet Tanager and N. Parula.</div>
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Today we did a little sightseeing taking in the Alabama Battleship, the Drum Submarine and a few war planes.</div>
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We spent a few hours enjoying the gardens at the Bellingrath House and now it's time to hit the road again.</div>
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I saw on facebook that South Texas had a fallout of warblers, we always seem to be at the wrong place or at the wrong time to find the birds.</div>
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Thursday we visited the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument, started in 1672 and took 23 years to build it protected the Spanish settlement. <br />
Friday we went to the St. Augustine Lighthouse and took the 261 steps to the top. Three women were making several laps to the top and back for exercise that morning, I still have sore thighs from my one trip up and back.<br />
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We then went to the Alligator Farm, it has a boardwalk through a pond area filled with alligators and nesting Tricolor Herons, Spoonbills, Storks, Cattle Egrets, Great Egrets and Little Blue Herons. We spent most of our 4 hours in this area but we did visit the rest of the enclosures of alligators, crocodiles monkeys, turtles, and snakes.<br />
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Saturday it rained all day so it was a good day for our car not to start and get towed to the Ford dealer, it only needed a new battery.</div>
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Today we walked the Old Town, it was still a grey day even spitting at times but we got most of the beautiful area in before it started to rain.</div>
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We took in a Picasso exhibit at the Visitor Center too.</div>
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Tomorrow we head out for Panama City.</div>
<br />Jules and Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168318824044630787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377270359462971109.post-16350431546536730972013-04-19T15:10:00.002-07:002013-04-19T15:10:46.729-07:00Space Coast visit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here's some of my photos of our stay in Titusville, or the Space Coast area.</div>
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We enjoyed Merritt National Wildlife Refuge so much we did the drive 3 times, saw some manatees there, and the Florida Scrub Jay.</div>
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We didn't go to the Kennedy Space Center, it was too expensive but we visited the Space Museum and Park in Titusville. </div>
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We went over to Port Canaveral and we watched the dolphins and saw a couple of green sea turtles.</div>
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This mystery bird was taken at Merritt NWR, it's a morph of some kind.</div>
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The sea turtle.</div>
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We visited the Canaveral National Seashore.</div>
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We went to Viera to the marsh there and walked around the first pond, this Great Blue Heron has a couple of chicks.</div>
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We had a nice look at this Limpkin.</div>
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We also visited the very first National Wildlife Refuge, Pelican Island, the pelicans were on the side away from us so I didn't take a picture.</div>
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We are now spending a few days in St. Augustine.</div>
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We drove down to visit Key West and spent one night there at a Best Western in the old town so we would have some time to take in a few of the sights.</div>
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This dog is a money maker for his owner, he gets a dollar if you want to take it's photo and who can resist. Maybe if I dressed up Tigger and sat at a corner I could make a dollar or two ha ha.</div>
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The cats are the big draw at the Hemingway House, not really but one wonders. Hemingway lived here for 10 years and wrote many of his novels here, only one based on Key West, To Have or Have Not.</div>
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Key West has a butterfly house and of course we had to go there to try and get some beautiful photos of exotic butterflies, they had exotic birds too.</div>
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Picture of the lighthouse that I took through the fence, didn't have time to tour it besides we've seen several lighthouses.</div>
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One of Key West's roaming chickens, there were chicks running about too.</div>
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One of the 45 Hemingway cats, not all have the famous six toes.</div>
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When Hemingway lived there he had up to 75 cats, the six toes are lucky cats.</div>
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Here we are at the Southernmost point marker.</div>
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We had a really good time, didn't have time to take in everything. Trolley ride was really informative and fun, we toured the Mel Fisher Museum of the treasures he collected from shipwrecks and we even bought a piece of old silver he brought up from the ocean deep.</div>
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These photos are from our trip to the Fairchild Botanical Garden in S. Miami.</div>
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One of the Chuly glass sculptures.</div>
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You see a couple of umbrellas up as we had rain and parts of Miami received 4 inches in that hour of rain.</div>
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One of the ponds at the garden, there was a butterfly house too where we enjoyed getting a few photos before the downfall, the house is enclosed only with mesh.</div>
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We have moved north to Titusville, to explore this area and see the space center.</div>
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We visited Corkscrew today and I hadn't posted about this special place so I thought it about time.</div>
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Florida is in a drought and is 4 inches behind in the normal year total and it is affecting Corkscrew as the swamp is dry, there is only one water hole left for the birds and they are taking advantage of the fish stranded in it.</div>
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We have visited the preserve several times and usually find some warblers, woodpeckers, red shoulder hawks and last time a nice view of the Swallow tail Kite.</div>
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Today the baby Barred Owl was sitting out, the adult just up the boardwalk hiding. We have seen the owls there several times and heard them call Who Cooks For You.</div>
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There were 4 pairs of Painted Buntings at the feeders and we did spot the Oven bird too, but it did not stay out long enough to get a photo this time.</div>
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The lettuce pond had several Roseate Spoonbills feeding, they were putting on show for us.</div>
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This alligator has what is left of this puddle, soon he'll have to find another water hole.</div>
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This is the lettuce pond which still has some nice food for these birds, 3 adult alligators and several baby alligators. I should have asked what happens to the baby alligators when the pond dries up will they make the move to another water hole somewhere.</div>
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We spotted a couple of these birds they are migrating north and have stopped here at the ponds for refueling.</div>
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The most common bird here and in most wooded places is the Catbird, it is found throughout the US.</div>
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The Roseate's and Wood Storks were teasing the baby alligators, they were fun to watch.</div>
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These Wood Storks were having a tug of war over a twig, </div>
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This is a shot of the boardwalk railing and all the organisms growing on it, the pink is lichen and there's an air plant on this one.</div>
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I haven't even begun on all the types of ferns, trees and water plants that grow here, it's a very interesting place, nicer when there is water to encourage flowering. There are volunteers on the boardwalk to point out interesting birds and answer questions. The first time we visited in November we spotted two bears back in the woods, you never know what you may be lucky enough to see here.</div>
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Venice Rookery is a favorite spot of ours and many photographers to get great photos of the nesting Great Blue Herons, Anhingas and Great Egrets.</div>
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The tiny island is filled with nests, we have visited it four times and it seemed each time there were more nests.</div>
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On our first visit in Jan. we watched the Great Blues and Egrets build their nests.</div>
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In Jan. there were already several Great Blue Heron chicks it was fun to watch the parents feed them.</div>
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In the pond there are two alligators, they keep predator numbers down and probably catch a few falling babes but mostly keep the turtles and raccoon's at bay.</div>
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Here's a family of Great Egrets with their fuzzy chicks, taken in March.</div>
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The cute chicks.</div>
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This is just a small section of the island and you can see how close the birds are, this egret is right next to a couple of Anhinga nests and babies.</div>
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We haven't counted the nests but there has to be over 50.</div>
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There are other birds present to photograph too, Night Herons, Green Herons, Snowy Egrets, Whistling Ducks, Glossy Ibis, warblers and Moorhens.</div>
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This is a little Great Blue Heron can't but be a couple of days old, picture was taken in late March.</div>
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So we have juveniles that have left the nest learning to fish in the near by ponds and this cute tiny babe all gathered in this small very special place in Venice, Fl.</div>
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Just a great place to spend a few hours and learn the behavior of these beautiful birds.</div>
Jules and Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168318824044630787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377270359462971109.post-69690643504408899992013-03-26T18:53:00.000-07:002013-03-26T18:53:50.970-07:00N. Ft. Myers Eaglets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our first view of a baby, Jan. 15th.</div>
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The eaglets hatched Jan. 1st and 3rd and were named Honor and Hope.</div>
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The proud parents, Ozzie and Harriet.</div>
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Eaglet and parent on Jan. 28th.</div>
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Finally see both eaglets.</div>
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Some of the eagle watchers.</div>
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Eaglets on Feb. 4th.</div>
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Wow, have they've grown, it's only Feb. 22.</div>
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Taken around Feb. 25th.</div>
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By March they are as large as their parents.</div>
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They are learning to feed themselves but mom likes to help them out.</div>
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A few eagles fans.</div>
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An eaglet takes it's first flight March 25, but we missed it this is the next day's flight.</div>
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It is fun to see how they slowly learn to fly about going from tree to tree and sometimes landings are missed and they end up on the ground then struggle to get back up in the air. They should have down in a couple more days.</div>
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Then they will be learning to find their own food and they may follow their parents north for the summer.</div>
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Some fun facts on eagles:</div>
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There are only two states with a larger population of eagles than Florida, and they are Alaska and Minnesota.</div>
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Eagles can lift 4 lbs.</div>
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An eagles nest can have 4,000 pounds of nesting material.</div>
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The N. Ft. Myers eagle cam has had more than 15 million views from more than 200 countries.</div>
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We have had fun watching these eagles, taking photos of them and meeting some of the people who come by to see the eagles. We will miss them and we will all be heading north sometime in April.</div>
Jules and Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03168318824044630787noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377270359462971109.post-81212047912454920292013-03-18T14:27:00.000-07:002013-03-18T14:27:42.929-07:00A bit of Naples<br />
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This past week week we have been visiting the birding spots around Naples, which is just down the road from Ft. Myers about a 20 min drive.</div>
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Naples Pier is considered one of the oldest piers in the states, it has been repaired three</div>
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times after hurricanes hit it.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Naples Pier</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eagle Lake Park</td></tr>
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We found that Eagle Lake Park the best place to see birds in Naples, there are 2 State Parks and a Preserve but we found very few birds at those. </div>
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At Eagle Lake Park we did see two juvenile eagles, an osprey family, a spoonbill, storks, American Pelicans,</div>
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white and glossy ibis, and all the herons.</div>
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We met a birder at Eagle Park and he said he liked Clam Pass beach especially for Black Skimmers.</div>
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This is what uninformed people do, walk through the resting birds, not the thing to do and the sad thing was the birds returned to rest and they walked through them again til most of the birds left.</div>
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This is why we like to hit the beaches early before the sun bathers arrive it is the only way we can see any birds and get photographs.</div>
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This week I saw my first baby Osprey, there are two in this nest .</div>
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Looks like mom doesn't it.</div>
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I've been watching the nests in the area and there are a lot of osprey nests.</div>
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The state puts up poles for nesting but these birds thought this tower was better.</div>
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The platform below is located next to a Walgreen we visit a lot so I have fun</div>
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watching the family add to the nest and I believe I saw a baby's head </div>
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the last time we were there. Hopefully I'll get photos of them soon.</div>
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There is also a nest on a light near the McDonald's we visit but</div>
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I haven't noticed any little heads there yet.</div>
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There was a nest made on a light in the Walmart parking lot but</div>
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the ospreys abandoned it, I blame all the grackles and gulls for that.</div>
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We saw our first house finch in Florida last week, we looked in the bird book and I guess they are not a common bird here like they are back home. </div>
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These Palm Warblers are very common, we have a couple pairs that visit our grapefruit tree.</div>
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We see them everywhere. Another common bird back home the house sparrow isn't very abundant here either, we do see them but not at our feeder.</div>
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Our feeder birds are mourning doves, blue jays, common grackles, red bellied woodpeckers and cardinals.</div>
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There are several eagle nests in the area too, this one is right next to a busy traffic corner and a very busy shop. It has a couple of babies. We need to go back to see them as they should be close to fledging.</div>
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We visit the N. Ft. Myers eagles several times a week, it won't be long and they will be flying.</div>
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I'll do a post of their growth in a couple of weeks.</div>
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A major sign that it's spring in Florida is when the Cypress trees are green again.</div>
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They loose their leaves around Dec. and just the last week they have greened up again,</div>
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This Cypress was just beautiful and these Ibis' made it extra special.</div>
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Butterflies can be seen all winter like this Spricebush Swallowtail we saw today enjoying the sun after a very cool night in the low 40's.</div>
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