The End Of An Extravaganza

Well, I had no internet capabilities last night from Jawbone Canyon, or from atop Rand Mountain, where I tried to TPAD last night.  So tonight, I bring you... 4PAD.  Double the fun packed into a single entry.  You're welcome.  Here's what I would have written last night, had I been able:


Greetings TPADers.  I am writing you from atop beautiful Rand Mountain (Randsburg, CA).  We are trying to break a beer bottle by throwing rocks at it, but so far nobody can hit it.  I didn't see much worth mentioning today, but I did run into a continuing Hooded Warbler in Ridgecrest CA.


And here are the photos I would have chosen:

Lovely Hooded Warbler at Ridgecrest, CA.

Some common birds, getting it on.  Apollo Park.

As for today, Butterbredt was again a disappointment.  No vagrants at all.  We did see two good birds at California City though:

American Bittern is a really good bird for California City.  We saw one.

Tom (of Tom and Liga) found us this drab little female American Redstart.  California City.

Well, the Desert Extravaganza is finally over and I have to go back to work early in the morning.  There's so much that happened during this "Whiskey. Vagrants." trip that I wouldn't even know where to begin.  It was fun.  Oh yeah, and Justyn finally hit the bottle.

Whatever You Want

Today:  Birding, parasailing, beach party sesh, dinner.  It was totes legitimate.  As far as the birding went, I only saw more of te same.  It was crazy how many of these Apapane I saw again.  Probably over 100 today.  I had no idea there were flocks of these guys around, but there are hella.  Today I was really trying for a Hawaiian Hawk, but none materialized.  Major bummer.  

I got a better photo of an Apapane today, so I thought I'd do a repeat today(something rarely done on TPAD) .

Quiz bird anyone?  It's pretty easy I guess.  Anyway, I only kept the photo because I thought the sand looked cool.