Libby and I spent the last three days at Joshua Tree camping. It was a nice trip. We'll post pictures when we can. Here's the short version.
Monday:
Leave Apt. around 10:30. Arrive at North Entrance (Oasis of Marra) after noon. Poke around the oasis. Camp at Jumbo Rocks campground. We checked out the campsite, and saw gnatcatchers, quail, phainopepla, verdin, cottontails and a jackrabbit. Eat. White-crowned sparrows. Wind. Check out stars.
Tuesday:
Get up just before sunrise. Walk. Eat. Drive. Walk to 49 Palms Oasis (first in parking lot at 8:00 in the morning!). 49 Palms is really amazing and beautiful, but it got crowded, so we were lucky we showed up when we did. Black throated sparrows, white winged dove, bewick's wren, cactus wren, hooded oriole, hermit thrush, costa's hummingbird, ash-throated flycatcher, gray flycatcher, other various flycatchers, etc. Walk back. Drive long time through West Entrance to Hidden Valley. Brewer's sparrow. Barker Dam. Vaux's swift, many swallows, white-throated swifts, yellow-rumped and townsend's warbler. Jumbo Rocks to nap. Eat. Walk. Five jackrabbits! Fire. Stars. Sleep!
Wednesday:
Get up after sunrise. Eat. Pack up. Walk. Rock wrens, green-tailed Towhees, chipping sparrows. Drive south towards Cottonwood. Stop at exhibits. Note scratched and illegible surfaces. Upon one was scrawled in ink something about how Christian white men ruined the land and the Indians. Mourn. Drive. Cholla Cactus garden. Ocotillos blooming! Cottonwood Springs. House finches, ravens, kingbirds, warblers, sparrows, snakes and a warbling vireo. Drive to 10, off to Libby's parents house and then home a little after 6:00.
Shower and eat Jelly bellies.
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>>>brewer's wren...... yellow-throated and townsend's warbler.
You wrote this post quickly, didn't you?
It was actually a bewick's wren...and a yellow-rumped warbler, (though there is such a thing as a yellow-throated warbler).
Yes, I did. I caught one other mistake before publishing, though: I'd called the white-crowned sparrow a white-throated sparrow. Silly me!
As if most of the people reading this wil know the difference between a white-crowned sparrow, and a white-throated sparrow
I realized that my identity is "gabe's dad". How do I change it?
Gabe's Dad,
You can post on Libby and mine's blog without using a blogger account. Just go down and push "other" before you post, and then fill in your name in the provided field. You won't need to have a website to do that at all, and you can call yourself whatever you like.
White-crowned sparrow: e-nature guide
White-throated sparrow: e-nature guide
You can find out here! White-throated sparrows are very uncommon to rare in southern california, I've never seen one. I know that most people don't know, but now they can!
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