Camping In Style

Hermit Thrush As Spring nears I hear more and more birds every morning. It makes me feel hopeful, excited and curious about what birds we have here in the Sierra Nevada Foothills. Then in my research I found two great resources.  Barn Owl at Folsom Zoo * South Yuba River Park Association Birding at Bridgeport by local expert Bill Cortright Bring In The Clowns photo by Mark Schmitt w/ GREAT photos Schedule for South Yuba Bird Watch Red Tailed Hawk at Folsom Zoo And a beautiful resource site through San Francisco State University listing details about the Birds of The Sierra Valley and The Yuba Pass Area click here to see their report. American Dipper taken from Wikipedia SUGGESTED READING Sierra Nevada Natural History, T. I. Storer, R. L. Usinger,D. Lukas; The classic book on all aspects of the natural history of the Range of Light. Order at Amazon A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide to the Sierra Nevada, S. Whitney. ...

Yesterday I stopped into our local Hills Flat Lumber and was completely sidetracked by all the cookware, I thought to myself "self, I said, what do you need to stock up on for camping this Summer" Located in Grass Valley, California   I think they had every size of dutch oven, even one the size you could bath in Cast iron, what's not to love A huge selection of tarps as well The one thing that caught my attention the most was the "Cooking with The Donner Party" cookbook Click here to find outside of Nevada County, California

  An amazing chance encounter with a  troop of wild mountain gorillas near  Bwindi National Park, Uganda Silver back Gorilla Image from Wikipedia My girlfriend sent this YouTube video to me and  I think I must have been smiling as big as the  man who experienced them in person. Gorilla Skull Image From Wikipedia SEE Folsom Zoo SEE Counting Bear Cubs SEE Bears In Our Neighborhood SEE Camping With Dogs