Friday Quiz

This has been the week from hell where I have been spending most of my non-working waking hours with my computer preparing last night's Ranger Talk. Other than a short session with ground-squirrels and chipmunks outside my trailer on Tuesday, I have been immersed in creating that PowerPoint presentation. My brain is just fried and since I've slacked on this and two days late we'll skip this quiz for this week and get going again next Friday. The last quiz was a Red Knot, a species that I am quite fond of and that I found out a few days later is still having serious problems with a shrinking population. Hopefully we'll see another attempt to get listed as endangered - though I doubt it considering the criminals in the current administration that are doing such a bang-up job these days.

The "Ranger Talk" last night that I spent so much time on was Birdwatching Basics and I'll be getting ready here in a couple of minutes to take some folks on a birdwatching hike here at the park. This will be my third in the last 8 days; the birding is tough here at times, but Friday morning we had a Plumbeous Vireo foraging and singing in a small Ponderosa Pine at eye level and "no binoculars necessary" close range. It was pretty cool.