Finally a close up view of a Summer Tanager

Debbie and I went to the Ocmulgee Mound yesterday for a walk. This is also for us a place where we love doing some bird watching. Guess what, we saw a beautiful Summer Tanager and he sang for us beautifully. Wow, I wish I had a camera with me! This is a beautiful bird. This is not the first time we're seeing one, but this is the closest look we ever got of a Summer Tanager. Summer Tanagers are pretty rose-red birds, bigger than Sparrows and Vireos, but smaller than Blue Jays and Doves.

We also saw for the second time this week a Wood Stork. The first time, we saw a whole flock of them. This time, he was lonely one, hanging around with the Egrets, Glossy Ibises, and Herons, almost saying Hum mm I kinda like it here; may be I will relocate to Macon. We'll see.

4th of July at Connie's

 We had a pleasant time at Connie's on the 4th of July week-end.

We spent most of the day on Saturday in the pool and I'm surprised I did not take any pictures of the pool fun. We played games like a bunch of teenagers in that pool on Saturday: diving, splashing, tagging and dodge games with the volley ball; boy! we had fun.
As you can see in the pictures, Kelly and Leah came with us, which was nice. We played some Rook games too. The food was great with grilled chicken, big "ol" cake by Connie, side dishes galore, and booze. Great 4th of July!