Tuesday, August 30

I have a correction to my last post. I was suggesting that
maybe my cell phone couldn’t get a signal in the church lot under a cell tower
because God doesn’t like Verizon. Molly corrected me in that it was because Verizon
is in fact the Satan and was probably blocked because of the church. The tower
will need to be moved for it to actually function.

I’m starting to wonder if there isn’t some kind of bad Ju-Ju
related to our birding excursions lately. Lise and I popped over to Hiawassee National
Wildlife Refuge where we got two new species, bank swallow and tundra swan. We
also got a merlin for our Michigan list. What we mostly did though, was to
watch a really wicked storm roll over us.

Then Saturday we did the annual pilgrimage with Barb and
Ellen down to Pte. Mouille State Game Area. And once again we had to high tail
it from a torrential downpour. That’s four out of the last five Pte. Moo trips
where I had to run from storms and downpours. At Pte. Moo Lise and I got white
pelican for the year, Lise got a bobolink for the year and we got snowy egret
for the Michigan list. That brings Lise to 305 species for the year and me to
302.