BwBTC Sacramento Part 2

Howdee all,

We are currently in Sebastopol, Ca. visiting friends and staying quite busy..not much time for blogging and internet stuff…but having a great time.

Last post we had just finished the walking tour.

This is now the Auto tour around the Sacramento Wildlife Refugee.

Recognize this bird from the previous post?

American Goldfinch

  American Bittern …Great find!

A beautiful but very chilly and breezy day.  

  There is a Great Horned Owl in this tree…very well hidden…

The ponds which Larry and Geno say are normally filled with birds ..have just a few…

Snow geese. Coots, Pintails and a few Ross's Geese here…

    See the ponds on either side…Where are the birds?

A few Black Necked Stilts

Coots and Gadwalls

A few Northern Shovelers

But the most of the ponds had very few birds

    Looking at more empty ponds

A bit further and we see a few more Ducks and Geese

 

Still not the numbers that are usually seen here..

See them all in the sky?

   We do see a few areas full of Snow Geese..

Snow Geese and Long-billed Dowitchers

     Red-tailed Hawk

            But it seems that most of the ducks were in ponds further from us…and also

in the sky not many hanging out in the water..We did manage to tally 60 species between the auto tour, walking tour and the golf course.. 

I will save the golf course Burrowing Owl photos for my next post..

See ya at the golf course!