You ever have one of those days. So much to do, so little time. It all started this morning when it took me a little extra time to do the daily crossword. My original plan was to first go to breakfast at Roxies’. Yes, that is the name of the diner where we eat our first meal of the day. In your mind, picture a Roxie, picture a little diner, you will then say that sure looks like a Roxies’ Diner. 🙂
Then after breakfast, the important stuff;
1. do the crossword, (a must),
2. go feed the birds at the park,
3. fill the van’s gas tank,
4. wash the van,
5. take a new photo of the Santa Elena Canyon over to the Frame-up Gallery to get it framed,
6. check on my exhibit at Crocket National Bank to see if I need to leave some more cards,
7. come home then and try to do a post for my blog.
Well, you know about the best laid plans……. I just finished number 2. It is 3:00 PM and I am just getting started on number 7. I had to skip numbers 3 throught 6. I didn’t fill the gas tank; I think I can make it to Roxies’ (remember her?) tomorrow morning. I post-poned washing the van, ‘cuz it gonna rain tonight. I can wait about going to the Frame-up Gallery. Ditto to see about my exhibit at the bank.
The reason that it took so long to feed the birds (#2) was it turned out to be a gorgeous sunny day, a perfect day for birding. So after feeding the birds that’s what we did. We saw 29 different species. That includes the pictured Phoebe. Can anyone say definitely which it is? An Eastern Phoebe or a Says Phoebe. Ann’s list that she sends to E-bird, is below for your information.
So now it is almost 4:00PM and almost finished with this post. I am pretty warn out and I think it is almost time for a margarita. It’s a good thing that I don’t cook, because there definitely would be no time to make dessert. 🙂
Location: San Angelo State Park
Observation date: 1/24/11
Number of species: 29
Northern Shoveler 30
Northern Bobwhite 8
American White Pelican 30
Great Blue Heron 5
Black Vulture 70
Northern Harrier 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
American Coot 3
Greater Yellowlegs 2
Least Sandpiper 24
Ring-billed Gull 12
White-winged Dove 6
Mourning Dove 4
Greater Roadrunner 1
Eastern Phoebe 1
Say’s Phoebe 1
Black-crested Titmouse 2
Northern Mockingbird 12
Curve-billed Thrasher 1
Phainopepla 1
Spotted Towhee 1
Chipping Sparrow 3
White-crowned Sparrow 18
Northern Cardinal 6
Pyrrhuloxia 8
Red-winged Blackbird 120
Western Meadowlark 6
House Finch 12
House Sparrow 6
This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)
Lovely post Bob! And that’s a nicely composed Phoebe! It’s nice when birds pick branches with “artistic merit” to perch on 🙂
Or maybe I just get lucky. 🙂
Sounds like a great day! I often think it’s funny when I hear people say they don’t want to retire because they won’t have anything to do…. HAH!! I could EASILY fill up my days if I didn’t have to work!! I could only IMAGINE all the things I would finally have time for (blogging a little more often, for one…)!
As you can tell from my answere to ClassyRose, it is like this for Ann and I all the time. Like I told a friend once, I need to un-retire so I can get a job and rest. 🙂
Bob
Hi Bob, It looks like the birds won today. Do you often get side-tracked this way? 🙂
Almost every day. My wife got a chuckle out of your question. 🙂 I am not complaining, but I never get anything done, until the weather turns bad. 🙂 Thanks for writing.
Bob
I’m glad I was able to give her a chuckle. 🙂