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We just returned from our annual 4th of July camping trip. This year was a little different in that my husband has finally given up on trying to get us to camp. He rented a very nice cabin without any prompting from me. Of course, I still ended up staying back, cooking, washing dishes, watching movies and babysitting Kirby (who’s new motto is, “hey, let’s play that game where I keep jumping out of the fishing boat”). I didn’t mind, though; the breeze was wonderful and the view quite lovely. We stayed at Ruttger’s Pine Mountain Resort in one of their new cottages. The photos above aren’t’ actually of our cabin; they are from a “glamping” (glamorous camping) spot in Montana. The photos below are of our very nice cabin.

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Inspired by Gary Charpentier’s post, Welcome to the Jungle, over at Rush Hour Rambling, I’m posting photos of my own backyard. I wish I could blog scents, because the air is heavy with lilac and honeysuckle rose. If it rains today, the scents will be diminished. This is probably my most favorite time of year in my backyard. And what a lovely backyard it is….

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I love Sharon Stiteler’s blog, Bird Chick. Actually, I love her job. And her title: Bird Chick. How cool would it be to be called the Bird Chick? I wish I was a bird expert traveling around the area. I do it anyway and take lots of teasing from my family for it. This morning Ian Punnett read Sharon’s directions to bald eagle sighting in Red Wing. South on Highway 55 past the Highway 52 split. Left on 61 toward Red Wing. Apparently, bald eagles are all over the place!

After the Connecticut Eagle Festival I had a serious jones for bald eagles so I headed to Red Wing, MN to the Colville Park Marina to check them out. In the last week there have been anywhere from fifty to 200 bald eagles hanging around at the park. One birder has discovered that a pair of eagles is building a nest across the river from the marina–which reminds me how desperately bald eagles need to be taken off of the endangered species list. The numbers are up and the longer they are kept on the list, the easier it is for people to use it as an example of how the Endangered Species Act doesn’t work, when it fact it works very well.

Examples of my bird fascination can be found:

Bald Eagle in my neighborhood!

Flock of Turkey Vultures

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