The last night of the Astrology Festival there was an annular eclipse or ring of fire with the moon blocking most of the sun and creating a ring. We were given glasses to look through and found a ridge above the campground to watch it from. There were crowds at our major rim sites (over 1,000 people) but we just had a few neighbors. John was soooo thrilled to hike with chairs to a high spot and sit for over an hour!!! After dark we attended a ranger program and went to bed at almost midnight. Volunteering this morning at 5:30AM I was out in the cold (34 degrees) setting up for hummingbird trapping and banding at 6AM. And the Black Chin hummers did not disappoint us for 34 hummers were caught, one 5 times and one 3. Those two males just did not give up. They wanted to feed and it must have been just inconvenient to be caught They were hungry and wanted breakfast! I will volunteer again for it was great fun!
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| John looks soooo happy looking at the eclipse |
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| I dig the sunglasses we were given to wear! We did not hurt our eyes and they have the date, Ring of Fire Annular Eclipse and Bryce Canyon printed on them on them and they were free - what a steal! |
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| Everyone looks the same with the glasses. Note the rim of the canyon is just to the back of our viewing point. |
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| First we captured the hummingbirds and |
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brought to the biologist who banded them,
checked their health and recorded their statistics. |
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| Then they were released after a drink of sugar water |
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