Rhiannon and Ashlee are two sisters with very similar tastes and interests yet very different lives. They share this blog. Rhiannon is married with five children in a small town in Arizona. Ashlee is single with a darling pug who lives in a smaller town also in Arizona when she isn't traveling the world. Come see what we are up to!

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Sisters Birding Hike to the Gila River

Ashlee has allied herself with a Duncan birding group and wanted me to take a birding hike with her to show me where they are going to put in a bird watching site.  Before we went on the hike I made Pa and his progeny take a few photos with some lovely wild flowers. Pa is always willing to take a photo or two and he can make the best expressions.  Ashlee often spray paints this metal chicken different colors.  
Pa and his progeny

Pa and his grandkids in front of the old Granny Hawkins Building

It was nearing dusk when Ashlee and I started our hike and we had to sometimes wade our way through waist high weeds. Being an Arizonian, whenever you step where you can't see out in nature you always worry about stepping on a rattlesnake but thankfully we didn't encounter any poisonous reptiles.  We made it to the Gila River  and to the future site of the bird watching bench.  We saw maybe a Sandhill Crane but as it was flying away into the trees it was hard to be sure.  We patiently waited all of five minutes before we decided to move on, Ashlee says we have to quietly wait a lot longer to properly bird watch that may be hard for us as we tend to laugh and cackle when we are together. Ashlee and I are rank but enthusiastic amateurs when it comes to bird watching and actually probably a handful of other things too. On the way back home we did see several Turkey Buzzards which are common around here especially in the summer with all the dead rabbits and snakes on the roads.

Ashlee hikes into the sunset

Turkey Buzzards on a fence

Ashlee by an abandoned building

The weather is perfect here now for hikes; during the day it is in the 80s but it cools down to the 50s at night.  We may have to go on some more birding hikes and take advantage of this lovely time of year.  Wish us happy bird sightings!

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