Snow Geese!

These pictures are from Sutter National Wildlife Refuge and Gray Lodge Wildlife area. The first picture is from Sutter, the rest are from Gray Lodge. Monday my brother Richard and I went to these refuges up north. I borrowed my father’s new 70-300mm lens. Lots of birds, but the Snows were the highlight.  

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Sutter

 



The End



Another foggy day

Taken Monday in the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area.  It wasn't foggy when I left Woodland.

Cattails

Pintails and Shovelers

Pintail taking off

Female Red-Winged Blackbird

one foggy morning at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area

Taken earlier this week.  The bypass will probably flood in the next day or two so I won't have acess for a few months.   Click to make the pictures larger.

Great Egret



Meadowlark

Red-Winged Blackbirds

Mallads

Great Blue Herron

   

Sutter National Wildlife Refuge

I need to learn my way around this refuge.  This was my first time there and I was pressed for time.  The refuge is actually about 20 miles north of Yolo county in Sutter county.

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Tundra Swans

Snow and Greater White-Fronted Geese

I think I got to close...

Great Egret and Killdeer

Taken in the last couple of weeks.

Burrowing Owls

Taken in the Wildhorse agricultural buffer.  Click to enlarge.

Butterflies

I took these pictures on CR27 when I was looking for the Cassian's Kingbird.  Click on them to make them larger.