Wednesday, February 8, 2012 -- We drove to Parker, AZ. These are the picture we took along the way.

This is a field of hay that they have started flooding.

This is a burned off field. We have never been in the area to know if it is a hay field, or if it is a cotton field. Never in the that area at the right time to know.

This was from our drive yesterday to Parker, AZ. The green is a hay field, bales of stacked hay from previous cutting, and the pretty mountains.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 -- We started our day with breakfast at Denny's in Bythe, CA. Just going across the river. Then spend the day getting lost to go to Cibola Refuge (read more with pictures). But thank goodness we did finally get to where we wanted to go.

At this refuge they have many waterfowl (we were there at around 1:00 Pst and only seen the waterfowl). Mule deer, coyote, and bobcat are common mammals on the refuge. Occasionally you can spot mountain lion, kit fox, gray fox, and badgers too. Two years ago we did see the mule deer there.

The weather was cloudy but nice.

We have left the refuge now and almost back to our trailer when we seen the cloud of dust. He is really working up this soil. In this area they do the same with flooding their crops like they do in Yuma/Winterhaven. With the ground that dusty I'm sure glad they can flood their crops. Their main crops here is field after field of hay.

At some point during our trip out here we heard the United States send ship loads of hay to China. Never heard that before.

This was still in the refuge. He is raking the hay. There are 2000 acres that are farmed to provide food for the migrating and wintering waterfowl. Farmers harvest hay in the summer (last time I knew this was winter), and leave alfalfa, corn, milo, millet, and other crops for wildlife during the winter.