Estero Llano Grande State Park, golf

Yesterday we went to Santa Ana WLR were we volunteered in 2011 + 2012.  It was fun to see the refuge again.  The trees and foliage really grew up.  We had a great bird walk there with John and Sue.

Dec 10, Today we went on a a bird walk at the state park with Rick and May.  We seen 81 different birds including the Tropical Parula which is a rare visitor to the US

on the way to the park we seen about 100 Green Parakeets.  Not as exciting as the Parula but still new  to us.

Green Kingfisher eating a fish

and the camouflaged Common Pauraque

Walking around our neighborhood we met a few neighbors

Olive Sparrow, we can hear him sing but it is very hard to find and almost impossible to get a picture.  He was trying to hide but we found him and got his picture.

On Tuesday we went to the Hidalgo Pump House and found this Ringed Kingfisher.  Beautiful day to be outside.  

We went golfing at a golf course near us, El Nino.  It is a short 3 par, with mostly scrub for grass and really bad greens but it was $8 per person, we were the only ones there, it took about an hour to golf all 9 holes and we had a great time!  We are looking at golfing once a week, this place is a good starting course.  

Refrigerator is working again.  We finally called a repair man on Monday.  He had us do a few things to check it out.  We made an appointment for Tuesday, in the mean time he said to leave it on.  Well guess what?  Of course it worked!  We have had this problem a few times where the fridge stops working then begins again..