Friday, July 23, 2010

17 miles per gallon



1,800 miles remaining in the tank. For twenty miles. Then, reality returned. We turned north, away from the tailwind.



Nice birds at Devil’s Tower. Ferruginous hawk, eastern and western kingbirds, violet green swallows, chickadees, both nuthatches, rock wrens, mountain bluebirds. Birds we haven’t been seeing a lot of before this. Here is the list:































































Turkey Vulture


Ferruginous Hawk


Rock Pigeon


Eurasian Collared-Dove


Mourning Dove


Red-headed Woodpecker


Northern Flicker


Western Wood-Pewee


Western Kingbird


Eastern Kingbird


American Crow


Violet-green Swallow


Barn Swallow


Black-capped Chickadee


Red-breasted Nuthatch


White-breasted Nuthatch


Rock Wren


House Wren


Mountain Bluebird


American Robin


Yellow Warbler


Chipping Sparrow


Lark Sparrow


Common Grackle


Bullock's Oriole


House Finch


Pine Siskin


House Sparrow



We drove north through South Dakota. South Dakota bird list from the windshield.


















Northern Harrier


Mourning Dove


Tree Swallow


Lark Bunting


Red-winged Blackbird


Western Meadowlark


Common Grackle



We continued to Theodore Roosevelt State Park in North Dakota. Nice spot.




A dry-camp. Unusual for us. We’ll stay here a couple days and live off the batteries and tanks.



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