Today has been illuminating in one of the primary reasons Sara didn't fare so well overnight at the park--she's cutting more teeth. She's been crankier than usual (which is hardly at all), drooling, red-cheeked and the whole nine yards again. We hadn't noticed the signs before we set out to camp. So we ended up with a decidedly UNhappy camper who we... you got it... took camping. Oops!
A couple more photos are trapped on my cameraphone until I can find my USB cable to pull them down manually (they aren't sending via email for some reason, like all the rest.)
Didn't do a lot of birding, but got to see and hear the usual suspects --
the owls I mentioned earlier, Northern cardinal, turkey vulture, black-bellied whistling duck and tufted titmouse. When Justin was leaving the park at 3-3:30 AM he flushed over twenty deer and one coyote so the park is teeming with wildlife. And of course I had the raccoon visitor overnight after Justin and Sara had departed... he was a fat old 'coon and just gave me the "What, you got a problem or somethin'?" look when I peered out of the tent to see if something was blowing away vs. being nibbled on.
We need a camping recipes/cooking forum or a long-standing thread here, by the way, because Justin and I clearly don't know how to cook and camp. We always end up eating junk foods and/or canned soups (if car camping) or overpriced freeze dried meals (if backpacking or hiking in over a 1/2 mile.) That might have been fine for us when we were younger, but it doesn't fly anymore and especially not with Sara in tow, who wants to eat what we're eating so it should be a good meal.