Homemade Snickerdoodle Ice Cream Recipe

This is a recipe for Snickerdoodle Ice Cream. An easy custard-style ice cream, made in an electric ice cream maker and loaded with vanilla and cinnamon flavors. Everything you love about snickerdoodle cookies in ice cream form.

Two days ago, a Black Vulture was sighted at Castlewood Canyon State Park.

And then I made this Snickerdoodle Ice Cream ….

July 4, 2009.  This is a very rare bird for Colorado with only a handful of records over the years.  We got the phone call yesterday around noon, so we dropped everything and drove over with binoculars and dreams of adding a new bird for our Colorado State list. 

Believe me, we’ve seen plenty of Black Vultures in Florida and Texas, but none here.  After a couple hours of scanning the sky and searching through soaring Turkey Vultures, we left the canyon Black Vultureless so decided to be at the park again this morning.

We wanted to arrive before the temperatures heated up so we could be present for the big lift off. 

You see, vultures wait for the warming thermals before taking to the air.  Castlewood Canyon hosts a large number of roosting Turkey Vultures, it seems our guest Black Vulture has fallen in with a bad crowd.

There were about 16 of us at the Homestead parking lot.  After about an hour we decided to move South to the next parking lot for a better vantage point.  We enjoyed a singing Red-Eyed Vireo, many Bluebirds, lots of calling Spotted Towhees….no Black Vulture.  We stayed at the park from 8:30 – 11:00 scanning the sky, again sifting through Turkey Vulture after Turkey Vulture.  No Black Vulture.  At 11:30 as we were almost home, we got a phone call on my cell alerting us that the bird had been seen.  “We watched it for a good ten minutes”, said Steve. 

We didn’t turn around and head back, instead I made Snickerdoodle Ice Cream.  I mean com’on Black Vulture – I’ve got a National Holiday to celebrate.

Recipe for Homemade Snickerdoodle Ice Cream

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Here are some pictures from the missed Black Vulture Event:

We’ll try again tomorrow morning for the Black Vulture.

July 5, 2009.  We arrived at Homestead Parking lot in Castlewood Canyon at about 9:00.  Our location was to watch for from the parking lot.

Loch was stationed on the North end of the park, and Larry had climbed to the top of the ridge. So the wait began. 

Several of us present chatted about recent birding adventures, a Rose-breasted Grosbeak was seen, A Gray Catbird sang for us and finally the cell phone rang with news of the bird on the Southern horizon. 

Sure enough, we found the bird and watched it for a good ten minutes.   Third times a charm!