Today is a wet cool day so we opted to catch up on other things to free up some recreation time. The past couple days we made it out. Not too productive in terms of new species. Lise got her pheasant and we both got thrasher and magnolia warbler. I’m at 200 species and Lise is at 201.
Friday morning we went to a local park with the idea that we could knock off a couple early hours of birding and then Lise would take me on to work. The park was pretty empty when we arrived at ~7:00. One other couple birding in the parking lot. We did our thing and decided to leave about 9:00. By now the parking lot had more cars and others were arriving. I wanted to change into my office attire and figured I could do it in the front seat. So Lise drives over to the empty auxiliary lot. I take my muddy jeans off and throw them up on the dashboard. Now a car pulls in behind us. As I’m staring at Lise pant less and dumbfounded I hear beep, beep, beep, beep… Here comes the big green garbage truck with a yellow flasher on top. Could this get worse? Look, that flash of yellow and black. A magnolia warbler maybe? No, its, ahhhhh, A SCHOOL BUS pulling in beside us. “Don’t mind him children, its just a birder checking out his spotting scope.“
Ed's and Lise's Biggish Years 