Fun facts about my thousandth consecutive day of submitting at least one complete eBird checklist:
* The smoke wasn’t (quite) as bad as it has been, so I didn’t feel like I was chain-smoking as I walked the beach.
* The Lesser Yellowlegs is still hanging around at the mouth of Carpinteria Creek. After working so hard to get them on my county year list a few months ago I appreciate this one just chilling five minutes from my house for so long.
* The big Willet flock at Tar Pits Park was cool. Mixed in with them were Long-billed Curlews, Whimbrels, and Black-bellied Plovers.
* The trio of Black Turnstones foraging in the wrack let me get super close.
* I saw my first Say’s Phoebe of the fall. A few had been reported already; Nick had one at Coal Oil Point on September 4. But I hadn’t seen one yet, and I love them, so when I saw this one it made me happy.
* I liked seeing the Elegant Terns with the faint pink wash on their breast; it helped set them apart from the slightly larger Royal Terns they were roosting with.
You know you got a good job when your boss loves camping just as much as you do so you guys just take the rest of the week to go camping with family and friends
I’m going to hang up this phone, and then I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.
The Matrix (1999)
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