Wenesday, December 4, 2024
Our RV doorstep broke while we were at the dump station. Ed fixed it, using a bolt he'd procured the last time it broke. Hopefully this is the end of problems with it. It was misting rain and not a pleasant thing to be doing, but it didn't take him very long.
The rain continued as we drove. We took the Pickle Parkway to get around Austin and San Antonio. It was an easy drive, racking up tolls all the way.
Choke Canyon wasn't a canyon, as I expected. But it was really nice. The lake was very low. The campsites reminded me a lot of a COE park--grass cut too short. Full of deer. But there, there were birds!
I saw: several Golden-fronted woodpeckers. There was an odd bird that perched in a tree near the campsite, probably a male Cooper's Hawk. It had a very strongly marked cap, therefore a male Coop's, but the tail was very squared off and not rounded as they usually are. Butterbutts. Some other interesting small birds. Green Jays. Brown Thrasher.
Ed saw a Vermilion Flycatcher for the first time--lovely bird.
Vermilion Flycatcher:
The place marked as a "bird sanctuary" on Google Maps was actually just a big bird blind. But a very nice one. Lot's of green jays.
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