My Heron is Back

Great Blue Heron

I finally located the heron I stalk every winter. I've been checking all of its favorite spots and hadn't yet seen it this winter. But yesterday I spotted it hiding in the reeds along the river. It was pretty well camouflaged and it was a distance away across the river but I did find it. …

Killdeer Season

No, not the season to kill deer, but the killdeer (birds) have arrived. The irrigation canals have been drained for the winter and the mud flats have appear along the river.  Killdeer love these mudflats and I find them here every fall. Killdeer are members of the plover family and get their name from their …