Covered a lot of ground

A lovely, birdy morning at CMO. I needed to go to Alpine but hung around until 10AM, not sure if birders were coming or not. So many have been visiting lately that I totally lost track of who's coming when. While I waited and filled feeders I photographed this Yellow-headed Blackbird and Solitary Sandpiper. Isn't migration wonderful! I saw empidinax flycatchers. And warblers everywhere in blooming acacia. And as of 10 AM, no one to share it with.

So reluctantly, I departed and came to Alpine. I left behind loaded mulberry trees and gobs of birds and got to Alpine where we have even more loaded mulberry trees (7 at last count, although some of the ones I planted more recently don't have many berries on yet). By the time I got there, ate lunch, filled hummingbird feeders, watered plants, did laundry, etc, the day was pretty much shot,  so I decided to wait and bird early tomorrow morning. But one bird I couldn't ignore so easily as it foraged in the mulberry tree outside the kitchen window ——a scruffy looking Indigo Bunting, probably an adult not in full breeding plumage yet. But if someone were to say it was a first year bird, I wouldn't argue.

And while I hate being away from my oasis, I'm making the best of it.