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Finally! Water almost everywhere, albeit shallow…particularly Logan Creek. We drove the loop hoping to find early season eagles (no luck) and found lots of goodies. The backdrop today included bright blue skies, no ag fires, little-to-no-wind, and hardly a soul visiting. Naturally, the multitudinous snow geese and Ross’s geese flocks, in the water and in the air, were mind-boggling. The sound of their vocalizations and, when they took flight en masse, the hum of their wings, was a great soundtrack and punctuated by the various sounds of the duck species.

A few harriers worked the ponds. Their flight pattern never came close enough for photos. Other raptors included a few turkey vultures and a cooperative red-tailed hawk on that stretch along Logan Creek. A small flock of Western meadowlarks were on the ground on the first west-to-east leg of the loop…very cooperative. The Buttes were clear but not sharp, nonetheless nice as a background to even more geese in the non-public areas of the refuge.

The goose spectacle when flushed (by who knows what) remained the big visual


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