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Another bitterlake sunset

admin — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:23:23 +0000

So this time, we went back with all the equipments we needed to observe birds, such as egg sandwitch, egg nog, and binocular. It was probably the best sunset of the year. Amazingly beautiful.

Bitter Lake Sunset

The air looked pink and more birds than last time. The bird we wanted to see was the sand hill craine. They are the one frying in V-shape. Very big beautiful gray bird.

sand hill craine

After observing the birds by drinking egg nog, we decided to drive the path around the park. And see what we found.

Porcupine!!

He sure did look pointy.

Birds are back

admin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:30:23 +0000

I have been hearing loud noises coming from the sky recently. Today I went out to find out and it was at least 40 birds flying in perfect V-shape heading toward the Bitter lake. Yes, the birds are back! I came to Roswell at the end of January which was too late to see these migratory birds and I have been looking forward to seeing them. I heard that the birds come into the lake close to sunset, so Jimmy and I went to Bitter Lake wildlife refuge to see them flying in.

sunset and birds

We watched for a while and the bird traffic seemed to last forever. It was amazing to see birds flying in a V-shape. I have never seen these birds fly and I was impressed to see them take turns to be in different positions in the same V. Also when groups meet, some birds depart the original group and join the new one. Why is that? Because each group flies at a different speed or member birds are cooler in some groups? Or do they ever think? I wanted to stay and watch them but the sun went down and it started to get cold so we left. Next time I am coming back with hot coco and a blanket.

Unidentified flying object??

admin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:49:53 +0000

moon rising over Comanche hill

Jimmy is finally here in Roswell. He got here on 15th and since then I have been taking him around Roswell to show him the pretty spots. His first day here, we went to Bitter Lake wildlife refuge (7 miles away from the residency compound). It was just before the sunset, and the sky was turning into a pink orange and the moon was rising over Comanche Hill, which was definitely a Kodak moment.

We drove the path around Bitter Lake and parked the car to have a better look at evening sky and we found this thing. It was a very big shiny object, much bigger and brighter than star and moving slowly across the sky. First, it was bright white light and started to turn to orangish color. Definitely it was reflecting the sunlight. What was it??? A satellite? No it was too big and too close to the earth’s surface. A weather balloon?? It could be. UFO?? That would be really cool. Well, later we found out that it was a weather balloon flying over the Roswell sky. I still haven’t seen UFO yet here in Roswell but this was something close. Weather balloon, that’s what people always say, right?

weather balloon