Wednesday, May 30, 2018
On the road sort of .
Well we left Anahuac yesterday with great hope of at least going our normal 200 to 250 miles . Well as always we made only 100 miles and the truck had a little fit . A check engine light and then as a diesel it went into creeper mode . That is it would only do 25 miles per hour . You know how well that works on any highway. We managed to find an RV Park close by and get the rig into a slot . That was a relief and then the other shoe dropped . Found a diesel shop who looked at it and found the problem , but couldn't get to it for a week . So off to a GMC dealer and they got to the problem and then bam, $5000. to fix , oh well , just another day . Should have the truck back on Monday and back on the road . Yea. Still cheaper than new truck payments . G
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Finally Fixed , Maybe
I know it's been some time since my last post . It seems every time Windows 10 does a major update they always manage to mess up everything I have on this machine . Google Photo stopped working and it took me 10 hours of very pain full and just plain getting peed of to make it all to start working again . I guess Micro soft wants me to buy a new system . Only it won't be their product this time . Enough wining from me . I hope you enjoy what few pictures I could find |
One of the early Texas flags from the revolution . |
Another early Texas Revolution flags . Funny how some phrases can inspire people . |
As with most fortress structures in the west . The early ones started out as Missions , built by the Spanish . |
Lauren standing on the Monument marking the mass grave of Fannin and all his men . |
Very sad , when you see all the names of the 445 men who died here. |
In the Refuge we have a pair of Crested CaraCaras who have now brought into our area a new little one . |
Mom on her nest on one of the refuges solar water towers . |
Here it's been summer for almost a month and there are young every where we go now . Lots of baby Gators . |
All manor of Cactus and flowers are in bloom. |
As and added bonus , we have Roseate Spoonbills are nesting in Shoveler Pond . The main object of most visitors here . |
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Lots of Ibis and Herons on the marshes . Here in East Texas it hasn't rained now in almost a month and things are really dry . a number of the marsh areas are now just dry, cracked mud .
Well I hope I can keep this Computer going for a little longer . I really miss sharing our pictures here . We re also lookin forward to our next adventure. We leave here in 17 days and move onto a new refuge for us and do a little sight seeing on the trip up north . New Jersey of all places .
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Friday, March 23, 2018
March is almost done
Handsome man . Just watching and protecting his ladies . |
As we travel the interior roads of the refuge the young ones just have to run with the truck . All kids are the same . If we stop they stop and look to see if we are going to move ahead . |
So many birds in the Refuge that no matter where you look you see hundreds of them. |
Getting all your Ducks in a row . So many Coots . |
This Osprey has had enough of the Grackle . Just go away . |
We were at McFaddin NWR picking up trash along the Inter coastal waterway and the wind was so wicked . It was 70 degrees and we were frozen. |
Just taking in some sun. |
So many shore birds . We looked hard to see any leg bands as we could have banded the Turns 3 years ago when we were at Pea Island NWR. |
The Royal Turns with their Beautiful Head feathers are so neat to watch . |
Bitching at us to move on and leave them alone . We did as we drove along the Gulf on the Refuges beach. |
Our new bird feeder . The Raccoons finished off the old one with a savage jump up to it . 5 feet off the ground . |
A Green Heron taking advantage of the beautiful weather . |
A big old Yellow Eared Slider that I relocated off the main entrance road . It seems to some people that anything on the roadway is a fair target . |
Just a few LongHorns on one of the many small Ranches in the College Station area. |
Came across some of the Scottish cows we saw when we were in Scotland many years ago . |
The young Scottish Cows are so cute , they look like Wookies . |
And they come in different colors . |
These next few shots show two Donkeys either loving one another up or they are biting the heck out of each other , |
Two look like one |
Just extra legs . |
I think I'll just bite you ear a little . |
Just flowers no matter where you look. |
Just pretty |
Saturday, March 3, 2018
March Alredy
Cormorants waiting for me to make a move . We are doing Salinity testing and they are always annoyed by our intrusion . |
Willits feeding on one of the back area marshes where we go to do more testing . On our average test day we travel 97 miles inside the refuge to get at 92 test points . |
There are just thousands of birds in the Refuge right now . Every where we go we stir up large groups of just beautiful birds of all kinds . |
A Roseate Spoonbill just loving the warm days here . 77 today . |
Snow Geese and Ibis , adult and juvenile take wing as we roll by . |
Cute face on this little guy |
More Roseate Spoonbills on Shoveler pond . |
Caught this Blue Heron flying off as I walked into one of our check points in the main refuge |
A White faced Ibis giving us the bird eye as we passed . |
As the Turtles come up from the cold waters of the marsh we do spend a lot of time stopping and moving them off the road . |
Just a little annoyed at me . |
Caught this Hawk getting ready to make a nest along side of one of the access roads in the Refuge .Hope she keeps a lower profile later on. |
This is one of the harder spots we do for Salinity testing . a long walk through the cow poo out to the water control structure . |
A couple of quick throws and the numbers are ready to be recorded . |
The cows are all so nosey when I'm in their field . These are all free range cattle on the refuge . |
A walk back through the poo and on to another area . |
The fishing is good by the outlet and the Cormorants are lined up . |
A Great tail Grackle fishing on the other side of the outlet and doing well . |
This year we have a good number of Northern Crested CaraCara on the Refuge and one pair has taken a liking to one of the Solar water pumps for cattle . |
Seems like a good spot ? |
Didn't like that piece of grass in the nest . |
This piece is so much better . |
More birds as we move through the non public areas of the refuge . |
And sometimes we just have to move very slow as these girls are in no hurry to let us pass . |
Maybe e can get them in a row so as to slowly go by . |
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