Wow, yesterday was such a bad day. On 9/11 I watched in horror. Yesterday I was just naseous and heart broken but I think I felt worse. Maybe America can mend but there may be too many jackasses. If these were desparate jobless starving people I could understand. But all I saw was a bunch of fat hateful racists. I bet Putin was laughing his ass off while most Americans cried. And Trump pouted.
Anyway I felt better when I got up this morning and looked out the window and saw this plucky White-throated Sparrow in our Progreso Lakes yard. It was only our second ever.
And I finally got the Fulvous Whistling-Duck for the year list.
Honey wanted to work out today so I dropped her off at the gym and I ran over to nearby Quinta Mazatlan. I'm not really serious about doing a big year but there are so many good birds around now that I feel I should tick them just in case I change my mind. Everyone was seeing good stuff at Quinta today but it took me a while to get "tuned in." Things started slow. I missed Bert and Baceliza's Blue Bunting at the Amphitheater but I got the Black-headed Grosbeak.
I couldn't find the Pacific-slope Flycatcher in the Ebony Grove but I got poor shots of the Dusky-capped Flycatcher after other birders found it.
So I headed over to the Discovery Center where a male Blue Bunting had been seen. No problem!
I was back in the groove. I got good looks at the female Black-headed Grosbeak but I failed to get a photo. So here's one of the ten Clay-colored Thrushes.
My juices were flowing so I went back to the Ebony Grove and easily found the Pacific-slope Flycatcher.
So what the hell, I went back over to the Amphitheater and found the female Blue Bunting I had missed earlier.
I would rather be lucky that good. But sometimes I just like being good!
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