The girls and I enjoyed a slow walk this week. It was slow because there were so many wildflowers and so many birdsongs to listen to. I think Sky appreciated the slowness of the walk. Sometimes, she laid down by my side when I stopped to make a photo or listen to the birds.
Some of the birds we heard (most were not seen) included: Lazuli Bunting, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Warbling and Cassin’s Vireos, Townsend’s Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Downy Woodpecker, Purple Finch, Song Sparrow, Mountain Chickadee, Pine Siskin, and many others. I should have kept a list.
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Teri – saw smoke from fire earlier this week. Thought maybe it was up by you guys?-S
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Sadly, yes. It started near the bottom of our road. The ceaseless wind finally pushed over a live ponderosa pine onto the power lines, starting a fire, probably in the dead caenothus. Luckily, a neighbor saw it shortly after it started so the responders got on it pretty quick. I have to admit that I had a strong sense of PTSD as I saw the flames come licking up the hill below. We are overwhelmingly grateful that there was a full complement of firefighters in the valley – District 6 volunteers, DNR and the USFS smokejumpers (who drove, didn’t parachute). They could see that this had the potential to do a lot of damage with the wind behind it. And it was good early season practice for them. Hopefully, that will be the worst of the fire season, still to come.