Some video I took with my phone yesterday while hiking around in…
Some video I took with my phone yesterday while hiking around in Rancho Monte Alegre for the Christmas bird count.
When I was 12 I lived with my grandparents in Florida for six months. I remember one day I spent bird watching at the Bok Tower Gardens, and how pretty it was when a light rain started falling and all the other visitors left.
I thought of that yesterday, when I drove past the locked gate into the private estate development of Rancho Monte Alegre in the hills above Carpinteria. It was raining off and on as I hiked around, and there was no one else there; just me, the birds, and the tree frogs I frightened into silence with my galumphing.
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Tags: bird watching, rancho monte alegre, solitude, rain.
