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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