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 provide any uncommon narrative. As an alternative, on this submit I’ll wax philosophical, whereas sharing a couple of good images from that outing.
Clay-colored Sparrows
In a few month, I’ll have my 66th birthday. In between at times, I’ll spend per 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 by means of the center of a salt marsh. However as soon as I get again residence to Mexico, I shall be climbing hills on livestock trails as soon as once more. I’ll usually stroll on the perimeters 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
Fortuitously, I’ve good genes and are available from a long-lived line. In all the standard measurements, comparable to blood stress, ldl cholesterol, and blood sugar, I nonetheless take a look at very effectively. I do carry about ten further kilos of extra weight. And I should be cautious to guard my pores and skin, having had a few basal cells eliminated. I also can just about depend on a number of joints to be a bit cranky on any given day — particularly after an extended 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 maintain going for hours. In reality, I do maintain going for hours, at some point every week, on our barely tamed church property. And one other day every week I’m going birding. Often, I keep out round seven hours, and stroll 6-8 kilometers (4-5 miles). These pastimes most definitely do carry 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 current months, a number of American birders have reached out to have me take them birding in or round Morelia. For essentially the most half, they’ve been even older than I. And I need to say, based mostly on this most unscientific pattern group, the long run for my very own birder’s well being could possibly be fairly rosy.
This extraordinarily confiding Northern Home Wren had taken up residence in slightly picket cabin.
Some would possibly say that I could quickly be unable to climb hills and do heavy gardening, so I ought to in all probability 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 presumably 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.
