Via Colli Alti

Off leash ... woohoo!!!

Thank you, Daddy <3

I hear cowbells but where are the cows???

I found them!

Fighting the urge to herd?

I tawt I taw a puddy cat!

It is a pussy cat ... very territorial one at that.  She belongs to the chef of Rifugio Alpe Madre where we stopped for lunch.

Horsies on a busy road.  Where did they come from?

Buona Festa della Mamma

With eight ducklings, Mommy Duckie has got her wings full.

Vitae Interrupta

A pigeon's life, interrupted?

Photo credit: Lyra Garcellano who was fascinated by my fascination about the broken egg

Happy Birthday, Brontë!

We hiked with the Booboos on her second birthday (1st of May) in Tortima, Marostica.  The dandelion fields turned her white sockies into yellow.

Other Feathered Friends from Arizona

December 2012

Gila Woodpecker

Gambel's Quail

Phainopepla

Starling

Vermilion Flycatcher

Verdin

Bill Williams River National Wildlife

December 30, 2012

To go or not to go to Lake Havasu to visit the London Bridge?  That was the question.  It's one of the side trips from Quartzsite recommended by different websites.  Some RVers we met suggested it without any qualms as well (but a few warned us that it's very 'commercialized').  To be honest, I wasn't excited about it at all.  Driving around 75 miles to gaze upon reassembled (s)crap from London, England didn't really appeal to me (Lake Havasu City bought it in 1968 for $2.5 million).  However, the drive itself was absolutely lovely and after about 50 miles, we spotted a scenic spot sign.  Of course we took advantage of the photo op and then realized it was overlooking Bill Williams River National Wildlife Refuge.  We decided that London Bridge could wait until our next visit to Arizona.   

Clark's Grebes

Common Loon

Common Loon demonstrating its bathing ritual

Common Goldeneye

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

Ring-necked Ducks

Great Egrets

How you doin'?

Brontë sniffing her new friend

Great Blue Heron and Snowy Egret

Great Blue Heron