Anza-Borrego Insipiration Wash

 

Eager to start the day I rose with the birds and was treated with a new life bird, the White-winged Dove.  Notice the white edge to its wing.

 

Another bird nearby was a Eurasian Collard Dove which has a dark semi circle on its neck. 

I though the best one I saw was a Costas Hummingbird. 

But then a couple of Roadrunners showed up, and well it is hard to top a roadrunner even if they are common in this area.  They weren’t common to me.

 I followed then through the campground until I finally took a good photo. Whew, they are fast runners.

 

My plan was to join the park naturalist at a place called Inspiration Wash for a walk to look at flowers. The walk was beautiful with lots of fantastic vistas.

We only found two flowers a Mojave-Aster (Xylorhiza tortifolia).

 And a desert vetch.

 

After climbing a small hill I could look back and see the wash that we had just walked. 

From there I drove over to the Narrows Earth Trail which deserves its own blog, so look for it tomorrow.

On my way back to camp I passed some metal sculptures in the desert and stopped for a look see.  They were created by Ricardo Breceda for Galleta Meadows Estates in Borrego Springs. There are over 129 sculptures and I only saw a few.  I didn’t know there were so many until I came home and looked searched on the internet. 

 

I only saw a few and these are a couple of my favorites. Collectively they are called “Sky Art”, a blend of craftsmanship and placement in the open desert landscape.  Each piece I did see looked it came there on its own accord.