Adventure started

Wednesday Nina's friend came over to work on her fence and did some computer work for me as well.  Big XP will spend the summer in storage, and little computer now knows how to talk to the printer.  He also helped me load Dolphin and Fuji-bike onto the roof-racks.  Many thanks to Ed !!
     I am also excited about my design for packing things inside the truck.  I made a nice place for me to sleep in the back, as well.  In previous years there was no space for me.
     I am making a detour to Cheyenne Bottoms, a bird refuge I have heard good things about. The first night I found a CG  1 1/2 hours from the refuge.  This place is AWESOME !!  I spent much time studying sandpipers I am not familiar with, Bairds, White-rumped, and Semi-Palmated.  Red-necked and Wilson's Phalaropes were spinning in circles looking for tasty bits to eat.  Hudsonian and Marbled Godwits in breeding plumage.  This was only my 2nd time seeing Hudsonian Godwits.  Plovers, shorebirds, and in the field and forest areas I saw Dickcissels, Orchard Orioles, Eastern Kingbirds and Grasshopper Sparrows.  and more.
     After the seeing the migration show at the refuge I drove north and west thru Nebraska and into Wyoming. I must admit Nebraska in the Spring can be really pretty.  At a rest stop for Nebraska National Forest I walked the short trail and saw a rainbow of birds.     

     Red Cardinals,  orange Baltimore Orioles and Robins, yellow Warblers, Common Yellowthroats, and brilliant American Goldfinches. green  Cottonwood trees, bushes.  Blue Indigo Buntings (!!!!) and a Blue Jay called,  purple  flowers, Phlox-like.  I took some photos.

Also a Catbird, RWBB, BHCO, BC Chickadees, WBr Nuthatch, and Chipping Sparrows.   An Orchard Oriole showed up as I was about to leave.

     I spent last night in a nice KOA in Douglas. They let me charge the laptop battery and provided free Internet. 

Photos from Ft Robinson bluffs, and eastern Wyoming looking to the east.