We chased some interesting birds on our trip back through Arizona, adding 26 species in 7 days. Just over the NM line near Portal Arizona, we camped in an oasis called Rusty’s RV Park. We typically prefer public parks since the private RV parks seem geared to the big rig RV retirement home life style of “snow birds”. Not so here. We enjoyed dinner in a flower garden, with paths winding over Koi filled ponds,…
After spending time in the ‘plain’ Great Plains, we were ready for adventure. Spending the night in Audubon’s Rowe Sanctuary Sandhill Crane photo blind was surely going to be one of our more unique undertakings. Access to a photo blind took pre-planning since the reservation window for the 4 blinds opened on January 2nd with availability from March 20th– April 11th only. We shelled out $200 to stay in a 4 ft. H x 8 ft.…
Arizona, Texas, and New Mexico were exciting birding in beautiful surroundings, but Kansas was not our cup of tea. We found the Great Plains just that… greatly plain and flat with boring landscape. As a child in Minnesota I remember looking for the first American Robin as the herald of spring, on the Apalachicola National Forest Chuck watched for the Eastern Kingbird. We found it ironic to be told by a campground host in Kansas…