The ride

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Today I got on my road bike for the first time since sometime in the fall of 2010. The weather was perfect as I wound my way along the bike path through the state park just minutes from our house. The cottonwood trees are just starting to get their leaves. The wading birds are starting to fly in– I saw several white faced ibis shaking their curved beaks in a pond. The mallards are nesting, the red winged black birds are calling, a ring necked pheasant jumped out at me from a clump of cat tails. High in a dead tree I saw a woodpecker that looked like a northern flicker, but bigger, so I need to figure out what kind it was.

It was a reminder of my college days wandering Cache Valley Utah in search of wetlands with avocets and cranes and heron rookeries.

I don’t ride me bike to be fast. I ride to watch the birds.

3 thoughts on “The ride

  1. Nice! Sounds klike you enjoyed your ride! Drop us a email sometime. We should have the kids write to each other especially over the summer break.

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