Tis Friday and we're on the move

Pyrrhuloxia.  Funny word or something else?  We discovered that there was a strange looking female cardinal, but it didn't look quite right.  Well, it wasn't quite right it was a Pyrrhuloxia, a member of the cardinal family.  Check it out!  Range is limited to the extreme southwestern states, in their extreme southern parts and into Mexico.

This is a bird-watchers paradise down here.  If you are a birder, you would go nuts.  We're not really birders, we just like seeing interesting birds.

We have decided to take a chance and move from our campsite in Rio Grande Village one day early so that we can camp in the Basin!  School break starts heavy duty tomorrow so we are going to try to get a campsite today as tomorrow, as the ranger said, it will not be pretty.

There will be wifi up there but our next stop will be down on the Rio Grande in a campground called the Cottonwoods and it is more primitive and there will be no wifi there.  Our next shot at communicating will be sometime next week after we leave the park and head north.

This morning we did go to a great talk on cactus given by a very lovely younger ranger who grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan!  Small world indeed.