This week, I as soon as once more discovered myself car-challenged. So I went to a different close by website, Las Mesas, which didn’t supply any uncommon narrative. As a substitute, on this put up I’ll wax philosophical, whereas sharing a number of good pictures from that outing.
Clay-colored Sparrows
In a couple of month, I’ll have my 66th birthday. In between from time to time, I’ll spend every week and a half in California, within the land the place birding might imply strolling on paved paths, and even on a picket boardwalk constructed via the center of a salt marsh. However as soon as I get again house to Mexico, I will likely be climbing hills on livestock trails as soon as once more. I’ll usually stroll on the edges of steep slopes, staring on the abyss under. Or I could slog on the crusty floorr of a dry lakebed.
An uncommon variety of Least Grebes
Thankfully, I’ve good genes and are available from a long-lived line. In all the same old measurements, akin to blood strain, ldl cholesterol, and blood sugar, I nonetheless take a look at very properly. I do carry about ten additional kilos of extra weight. And I have to be cautious to guard my pores and skin, having had a few basal cells eliminated. I can even just about rely on a number of joints to be a bit cranky on any given day — particularly after a protracted day of birding.
Black-chinned Sparrow, a flagship species for this website.
It occurs that I hate doing conventional train. Going to the gymnasium brings me no pleasure. However give me a backyard on which to work, and I’ll preserve going for hours. Actually, I do preserve going for hours, in the future every week, on our barely tamed church property. And one other day every week I am going birding. Often, I keep out round seven hours, and stroll 6-8 kilometers (4-5 miles). These pastimes most actually do convey me pleasure. They scale back stress like no different actions I do know. And, in response to my take a look at outcomes, that works for me.
Lark Sparrow
In latest months, a number of American birders have reached out to have me take them birding in or round Morelia. For probably the most half, they’ve been even older than I. And I have to say, based mostly on this most unscientific pattern group, the longer term for my very own birder’s well being might be fairly rosy.
This extraordinarily confiding Northern Home Wren had taken up residence in a little bit picket cabin.
Some would possibly say that I could quickly be unable to climb hills and do heavy gardening, so I ought to most likely decelerate now. I say that I could sometime be unable to climb hills all do heavy gardening, so I’m going to do as a lot of these items proper now as I probably can. And fervently hope that if I exploit it, I received’t quickly lose it.
And eventually, my first sighting of the majestic Chestnut-sided Shrike-Vireo for 2024.