Monday

  

Back to work.

 

I don’t work full-time, so usually I balance work with whatever else we’re doing, like birding or traveling.  Heading to Canada and realizing how much we would be out of touch, we declared those two weeks to be vacation and put an autoreply on the work email.  Well, fun’s over.  The two weeks are up, we’re back in the states, and back to reality.  Except for the walk in the boreal forest preserve…

 

 

 

 

It’s a harsh environment.

 

And versatile.

 

Sandhill cranes.

 

While we were driving across Yukon and Alaska along the Alaska Highway we noticed cable laying equipment working alongside the road.  Don’t know what that’s for.  Fiber optics?  Telecommunications?  I thought that was all done by satellites and towers now.  Laying cables seems so low-tech.  What do you suppose it could be for?

 

Here’s how our Canada map is doing.

We’ve been to a lot of the provinces now.  The right side still needs some work though.

 

And here’s our Yukon county map.

 

That’s it.  One county!  The first bird we reported in Yukon Territory filled in the entire thing!

 

Here is how we’re doing in Alaska so far.

 

Still got a ways to go there/here.