We are in Green Valley. I think we dropped the average age of the condos down to about 75. Molly really throws the curve off.
On the way down we stopped at the Desert Museum. We also hiked a bit around Grant’s Pass. This is one tough country. Beautiful but tough. I’m a big water person but this place intrigues me. Everything here fights back. Even the plants are tough.They all seem to have spikes and thorns.
Tough country
Typical nasty plants. You don’t mess with these guys.
Birding has been good. We only have about 16 new species so far but we haven’t hit a lot of habitat varieties. Everything is different so our familiarity with Midwest species doesn’t help us much. There were some sparrows out in the desert around Grant’s Pass that we just could not get. They were too fast for us and we couldn’t get any identifying marks. If we had more familiarity with them we probably could have identified them just by behavior. Lots of new sounds too. Even birds from the Midwest seem to have a slightly different accent here. We would need a lot more practice if we ever attempted a real big year.
We’ve been chumming around with the McCoy clan. Sue and Roger showed us a great restaurant South of Tubec. Lots of fun reconnecting with Mike, Sherry, and Claire. More later.
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 