Birding with Twitter buddy

Howdee all,

Last week…Fellow tweeter Pat Bumstead aka @Patbumstead and I met for the first time. We had been reading each others tweets for sometime now and chatting via twitter. She knew that I was here in Vegas..and she and her husband were flying in from Canada to visit family. So we planned to meet up for a day of birding.

She and hubby met us in Calico Basin where we have been parked for over a month now…(Thanks Mark and Debbie for letting us stay so long!)

We started our birding day at Red Springs..not to far from where we are staying.

Crissal Thrasher

Canyon Wren

We then drove to Spring Mountain state park..

on the way we saw two Golden Eagle soaring high in the sky.

    We did a tour of the Ranch house…former home to Howard Hughes and other Hollywood stars.

I wanted to take this off the wall and put in my bedroom. Birding is a bit slow here in the winter..but this Say’s Phoebe posed for us a few times.

Lunch at the park with awesome backdrop!

Say’s posing again..

We walked to the pond to see what ducks were there.

Amongst the many coots were Green wing teal, Rink necked ducks. Ruddy ducks. and a few Killdeer. Red-naped Sapsucker

Wild Burro we went to Bonnie springs in search of the Mexican Black-throated Magpie Jay..

no luck..but I did spot this awesome stage coach..And a Peacock…

Went to a wash in search of the Magpie Jay…Pat spotted this fence post decorated as a face  Pat also spotted the moon rising….nice photo op. We then went to the town of Blue Diamond to look for the Magpie Jay again…

no luck…

Pat made friends with a not so wild Burro…who she called Stevie

It was so nice to meet Pat ..my tweet buddy…and spend the day with her!

But all good days come to an end..

Until we meet again.

Check out Pats awesome blog

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