Today the weather turned lousy again with intermittent rain showers. We killed time today by going shopping instead of hanging around and watching TV or playing with our Kindles and smartphones. TV is right out here because we can’t get any reception on our regular aerial, our satellite antenna and there’s no WiFi at this campground.

What the campground has is birds. We put the feeder out a couple days ago and initially had little success in convincing the birds to eat at the easy tray. However, some intrepid birdies started eating at the feeder and soon thereafter all their relatives decided they like the offered food and there is now activity around the feeder that looks like the opening to a beehive except the bees are really big and don’t sting. We have fortunate to observe Spotted Towhees, Black-headed Grosbeaks, Nuthatches, Chestnut-backed Chickadees and many of the Washington State Bird – Goldfinches. The Goldfinches here should really be called Yellowfinches because they are an absolutely stunning shade that stands out plainly in the emerald green surroundings. Overhead, we see large hawks and Bald Eagles circling lazily overhead. Regularly we spotted a half dozen or more of these greedy little marvels in our campsite at the same time. The contents of the feeder drop quickly each day.

We picked up some more bird food while in town today. We also checked out a Mexican store here called Caniceria de Compadres where we scooped up some good meat, some chorizo and had lunch at the in-store taco stand. Peggy went into WalMart and re-provisioned our fridge and RV toilet paper supply. We also stopped at Harbor Freight so I could get an oscillating multi-tool which, according to their staff, did not even exist when I was in there a week ago. They have a website and I found that the staff was bonkers and such tools do indeed exist within the store.

Got some bird pix. Click the link. https://photos.app.goo.gl/tTYyCW21Rg4msdQg8