More rain

The rain started again yesterday afternoon and has continued with only a few breaks until now.  It doesn’t look like it’s going to let up until the weekend.  Ugh!  There is even the possibility of snow showers tonight and tomorrow.  Pam and Stan left in the rain.  I hope they had a safe journey down to the Grand Tetons.












During a break in the showers, this afternoon, I was able to get a few shots of the birdlife around the campground.  Several Lazuli buntings have returned to the feeders.
This female black-headed grosbeak seems to be perplexed about something.  :)
 As Emma and I walked around, we came across this poor bedraggled black-capped chickadee.  He was just soaking wet!  Makes me appreciate having my  portable shelter a little more.  :)

I received a comment from The Bayfield Bunch this morning saying he was having trouble with the comment button on my blog.  Is anyone else having trouble posting a comment?  He also said that sometimes my pictures overlap on top of the text.  That overlap doesn’t show up on my computer, nor on my sister’s.  Does anyone have any ideas about that?
During our brief respite from the rain this afternoon, Emma took advantage of the little bit of sun to bask.  She is, however, always on duty keeping track of those tantalizing ground squirrels.  :)  If she ever caught one, I’m not sure she’d know what to do with it.

It’s been a pretty lazy day for me today.  I did finally catch up on all the blogs I follow this morning.  I haven’t had much time for that the last two weeks or so.  I think I’ll be heading into Rexburg tomorrow to pick up some bird seed.  I’m just about out.  Wouldn’t it be nice if this storm front rushed through and didn’t last three days?

Thanks for stopping by….talk to you later,  Judy

A bevy of buntings, and a bunny

The winds continued out of the south overnight, and the forecasted storms passed us by.  I had today off of work, so I was leisurely reading blogs on the computer when I noticed some exciting new visitors to the Hard Rock Bird Cafe!  All bird migration has been about a week to ten days behind this spring in Texas. 

How can you not be impressed by the colors of this male Painted Bunting?  I was beginning to wonder if they were ever going to show up!

I don't know of another bird in this country with such a mix of vibrant colors.

 He certainly seemed pleased with the menu after his long journey.

Later in the day, the not so conspicuous female showed up.  However, the painted buntings were just the beginning of the parade of new visitors.

Next to show up was a male Lazuli Bunting.  This was a new life bird for me, and has never been really documented on the refuge.  Woohoo!

That's the Lazuli bunting in the middle, with a painted bunting at the bottom, and a mourning dove at the top.  Lot's of business today.

And last, but not least, was an Indigo Bunting.  That's three bunting species in one day at the cafe.  Life is good!

After all that excitement, I took Emma to the kennel for her weekend stay.  I'm boarding her so I won't have to worry about her during this very busy Songbird Festival weekend.  After running several more errands, I returned to the rig.  I was planning to sit outside in the afternoon, but temps soared into the upper 80's with very high humidity, so I opted to enjoy my air conditioning instead.

Since Emma was gone, the rabbit made an afternoon to munch on the seeds.

My first tour of the weekend is tomorrow afternoon.  Wish me luck!  :)

Thanks for stopping by....talk to you later,  Judy