Air Quality Alert

First 3:  Curve-billed Thrasher

Now that there's another fire burning in the bootheel we're under an air quality alert until 3 p.m.  Truthfully it didn't seem that much worse than what we've been experiencing the past few days.

We did our regular hike this morning, and I noticed as we started off that Mr. White Hat's van was parked at the Tellbrook/Sonoma Ranch corner pullout, which meant that he and his dog were out there already.

We didn't see them, though, and we saw no one else during our trek.

View of Tortugas Mountain foothills

Looks like a juvenile House Wren

Last 2:  Willow and Frio in Right Branch Arroyo