Anticipating a lovely and
warm April evening, we packed a picnic dinner and drove yet again to Home
Lake. American avocets and yellow-headed
blackbirds have returned to the Valley!
We walked the perimeter of Home Lake expecting to see the white pelicans
that had been on the lake the day before but they had moved on to another body
of water.
We drove on to Monte Vista
NWR and ate our dinner at the picnic table near the first marsh. Our
yellow-headed blackbird friends serenaded us with their drawn-out metallic
choruses. Tree swallows looped and dived overhead. At the second slough we were
happy to see that ruddy ducks, their cocky little tails pointed upward, were
back in the Valley, too. Two marsh wrens scolded from the cattails and an
American tree sparrow flitted around in the chico.
On the return drive along
CR108, a great horned owl swooped down from a power pole and flew directly in
front of our windshield.
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