The Move That Wasn't

The pyrrhuloxia sitting in the shrubs along the fence (I think it looks like a cardinal who missed out on getting all of the red painted on his feathers!) --




The Bendire's Thrasher that was a new life bird for Forry --

The Black Throated Sparrow --

We were up this morning, but not dressed yet, when someone knocked on Auntie Violet's door. The man at the door gave Forry a note that said the the owners of the lot we were parked at were "coming home soon," and that we should call the office about moving to another available space. So we called the office and the lady gave us a list of potential sites we could move to. She suggested that we go take a look at the various sites and then come to the office to let them arrange to escort us to the new site (this park has staff who MUST assist you to park...).

So after we had gotten dressed, we drove around and looked the possibilities over. There was one lot at the front of the property overlooking the desert. There were several cacti and other brush along the fence that were filled with birds! Forry got a new life bird with the Bendire's
Thrasher and we also saw black-throated sparrows, a Pyrrhuloxia, Gambel's quail, and white crowned sparrows.

We decided that was the site we would like to move to as there was so much bird activity there. We went to the office to tell them our decision, much to the confusion of the two ladies there! It turns out that Shirley, the lady on duty earlier in the morning, had gotten her sites mixed up! The owners of our lot aren't returning until February 3rd -- and we are scheduled to leave on January 18th. So, we didn't have to pull in Auntie Violet's slides and bring up her jacks and move after all!

We did watch a cactus wren this morning in the large ocotillo plant in the lot next door, so this isn't that bad a site!