Van horn

We couldn’t open up the front door to warm up the coach this morning. We actually had to turn on a furnace. A low in the forties last night. Great driving weather today. Eighty and sunny.

A couple birdy rest stops on Interstate 10, and a walk around the Van Horn KOA. Today’s list:

Scaled quail

Gambel’s quail

Black vulture

Turkey vulture

Swainson’s hawk

Red tailed hawk

Killdeer

Euarsian collared dove

White winged dove

Mourning dove

Eastern phoebe

Couch’s kingbird

Western kingbird

Scissor tailed flycatcher

Chihuahuan raven

Barn swallow

Cactus wren

Northern mockingbird

Curve billed thrasher

Yellow rumped warbler

Summer tananger

Western tanager

Canyon towhee

Lark sparrow

Lark bunting

Savannah sparrow

White crowned sparrow

Blue grosbeak

Western meadowlark

Great tailed grackle

Brown headed cowbird

Bullock’s oriole

Scott’s oriole

House finch

Lesser goldfinch

House sparrow

Not a bad bird day for a travel day. Quail, kingbirds, tanagers, orioles.

Tomorrow, another travel day. Tomorrow night, somewhere in Arizona.