My two year old twin grandsons,
are not the only ones who are tired!
Covid may be stopping my travel,
but caring for these guys while their parents work remotely,
is keeping me busy!
Gotta run! Cheers to you from The Holler~
Note: The Holler is being hit by a series of ‘atmospheric rivers’ of dearly needed rain that intermittently ices up our wi-fi antenna and shuts down our internet for days at a time. So please excuse me when I disappear.
Christmas Blooms,
opened a month late,
on January 20th, 2021.
As if to celebrate,
new leadership for the USA.
Hope delayed,
blooms and grows.
Cheers to you from The Holler’s late bloomers~
Giraffes know that two heads,
work better than one.
You can look two ways at the same time,
and one head can prod another along!
Three heads are even better than two,
but prone to disagree about directions.
Compromise must be worked out.
Four heads can be confusing,
but giraffes will usually agree.
I wonder, why can’t we?
Cheers to you for the cooperative giraffes of Kruger National Park.
(Note: This is a reworked post from photos taken in 2015.)
The Salton Sea in Southern California lies 227 feet below sea level. It is the largest lake in California and shelters at various times of the year, half of the variety of bird species found in the United States. Millions of birds visit the sea annually.
American Avocets get their name from the Italian word ‘avosetta,’ which means graceful.
They are slender waders that feed mainly on crustaceans and insects.
Avocets used to be widespread across the United States,
but the species was killed off in much of it’s eastern range by the early 1900’s.
The Salton Sea is a critical habitat for these, and many other bird species, but the sea is shrinking due to climate change and increased human demands for water. Efforts are underway to help save the sea and the birds that rely on it. Time will tell if these efforts will be enough.
Cheers to you from the graceful avosettas at The Salton Sea~
For more about Avocets see:
https://nhpbs.org/natureworks/avocet.htm
More than a million snow geese migrate to California each year.
They have been following this same migration pattern,
for millennia.
They come from Russia, Alaska and Canada.
Over 30,000 of them winter at The Salton Sea in Southern California.
It is always disconcerting,
to see thousands of these arctic birdies,
sunning in the desert.
Sandhill cranes from Canada soak up the sun here too.
Cheers to you from the arctic desert birdies~
