Paul Goldberg Blog

Stuck! . . . well not really :)

As has happened in the past, once we get into Falcon State Park we have a hard time leaving. Our scheduled departure was Thursday the 29th. This morning, the 28th, Carol went off to take a Spanish lesson at the Rec Lodge. I hung around the coach doing some cleaning chores that I have put off for months. I cleaned the shiny, beautiful aluminum wheels and washed down the tires. I washed the windows (yes, I do windows, but only on GeeWhiz) and I did some refurbishment on our towbar. I know I did other chores too that I find “entertaining” when working on GeeWhiz that I might find mere drudgery under other circumstance. See Carol’s blog at Message in a Minute for her side of the story. I was looking at the weather in Big Bend and Marfa and Davis Mountain, all places we enjoy, and found it too cold and too wet to be pleasant.  Why not stay another week in Falcon, where the weather, while not perfect certainly is forecast to be better than those places? There is no one waiting for us next week anyhow. Las Cruces is three days, four at most from where we are so here we stay.

This Northern Cardinal will be happy we aren’t taking away his play place, the driver side mirror, and yes that is our park permit reflected in the mirror.

We have had a couple of interesting folk on the adjacent site. The most recent were Sandy and Peter who are traveling with Cody, a collie I think, and no car behind there 2000 Allegro. We were headed to Salineno and Roma Bluffs for some birding and offered to take them along. Ask any really serious Birder and they ought to know Salineno, various volunteers have been feeding birds there for 31 years. Here are just three of the birds we saw in 45 minutes or so:
Green Jay 
Audubon’s Oriole 
Altamira Oriole
I had to walk up to the office to get our mail and I saw two coyotes crossing the road. In all the years we’ve been coming here we have heard them many times, but never seen one. No picture, I didn’t have the camera (or phone) in my hand and they were in view for less than 10 seconds trotting across my field of view. However on another excursion to the office I saw:
No “Beep Beep”
Did see another one passing through our campsite, again no pictures, and stop to capture and kill a smaller bird I did not have a chance to identify. 
As usual in Falcon the focus for us is on the birds and the people.