Life in the Badlands

Today's adventure.  As you wander around the national parks you seem to have information about the park at a variety of locations, that is because rangers put out the information in various forms.  Today I spent most of my day putting in fresh posters and information all over the park.  What great fun.  Now granted when a keyhole is out in the weather sometimes it doesn't like to cooperate with you, but all in all no major issues and lots of fun talking to people around the park and seeing all the stops along the way.  People really do enjoy the park and are amazed at how big and beautiful it is here.

At one stop down in the Conata picnic area as I was putting up the informational posters I had to tap the pins in with a hammer.  Two cliff swallows were letting me know they were not happy with me being there, in fact we almost came to blows a couple of times.  Something was definitely up! So I checked out the back of the sign and sure enough they had made a nest and right on the edge are three little babies, looking like they weren't quite sure what all the commotion was about including the mini earthquake they were experiencing.  Check them out, they look like a milk commercial. HA! Actually they don't look any too happy with me do they?