birds!

So, Mom and I went birding yesterday and today by ourselves; Dad was in the mountains on a birding trip, but Mom and I couldn't go.  Turns out we had better birds than they did!  Today we saw a rare bird for the area, a Wilson's Warbler.  And there were two male Yellow Warblers together at one stop.  I joke that they look like bloody egg yolks; they're egg yolk yellow with these bright rusty streaks on the front.  Warblers are hard to see because they're small and dart all over the place catching insects.  They're beautiful during spring migration because they're in bright breeding plumage, whereas when they come back through in fall they're losing their colours.  We birded for over four hours, and since the weather was nice, it was a lot of fun. 

We took Mom out for dinner to Chinese, which was excellent as usual.  Hope all the mothers out there had good Mother's Days, too.