Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Bluebird boxes


 We acquired a bluebird box route again this year, but between the terrible weather and  Leo's busy schedule this spring we didn't make it out till the end of June.

Unfortunately by then Leo had forgotten how to get to the route and we drove out to the Meldrum Creek road the instructions he'd written down didn't make any sense.

Still it was a nice drive even in glowering weather, covering much of the same ground we traveled on our Farwell Canyon trip.

The Chilcotin meadows are lush and green this year due all the rain with lots of wildflowers.

I see timber milk-vetch, death camas and heuchera in this shot.

An arnica?

Very pretty member of the pea family


Death camus

Old man's whiskers

Blue-eyed grass

A white cinquefoil

A yellow cinquefoil


We checked a bunch of nest boxes but none of them turned out to be on our route.  

There were more swallows around than bluebirds.  Both species are thought to have been hard hit by the heat dome we had last year at this time. 

How many birdies in the nest?

Not bluebirds but tree swallows

The next week, armed with the map coordinates, we went out again and found our actual route.



Again the wildflowers put on a great display!

Don't know this one

Brown-eyed Susan

Paintbrush

Geranium 



Larkspur

Is this a penstemon?

Animals were seen too.

A pretty butterfly

A savannah sparrow with a grasshopper in its beak


Here's our second line at Copeland Flats.

Photo doesn't show the rambunctious bull bellowing just down the road (on our side of the fence)



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