Catalina

Catalina State Park, a very birdy place. Gila woodpeckers talking it up. House finches and goldfinches, with a constant background of whistling mourning dove wings. Roadrunners, flickers, shrikes, jays, verdin, nuthatches, wrens, kinglets, mockingbirds, phainopepla, warblers, sparrows, towhees, cardinals, pyrrhuloxia, but no quail. A very birdy place, but no quail.

And a dark place. Geminid meteor shower, compliments of our friend Rock. Not that he actually caused the meteor shower, but he did alert us to it. Got one really big streaky one. Thanks Rock.