19 April 04
Clouds In April
It’s been an overcast day today with a bit of precipitation: not much however (0.02” today). The weather forecast indicates that it’s going to turn partly cloudy and then sunny later in the week, and we wonder if 90-degree days are soon to come.
Favorite critters these days on the way to work: Swainson’s hawks, perched or calling overhead. The rough-winged swallows that build nests in the circular openings under the freeway, and go foraging with low “peent” calls over the nearby field. The donkey in the glade next to the Arboretum. And the western kingbirds with their lemon-yellowy bellies perched up on fenceposts and wires.
- Numenius, what do you all do for water supplies in the dry months? Do you have water restrictions like we do?— Jenny 20. April 2004, 02:51 Link
- Back in January I was biking the same route into work, although often with a detour around the west of the arboretum looking for birds. Two of my favourite exotic critters on this route include Peahen (looking rather incongruous amongst the Mallards) and Llamas in the stables!— richard 20. April 2004, 06:09 Link
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