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
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?
Again the wildflowers put on a great display!
Not bluebirds but tree swallows
The next week, armed with the map coordinates, we went out again and found our actual route.
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
Photo doesn't show the rambunctious bull bellowing just down the road (on our side of the fence)
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