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Sacramento NWR Nov. 2013

On November 10, 2012 we visited the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. This consists mainly of a driving loop where you stay in your car and use it as your "blind", as the birds let cars much closer than people on foot. This place is dominated by water fowl (mostly geese and ducks), but there are plenty of smaller birds on land as well.

Probably the stand-out photographic feature of this day for me was coming across a flock of Cattle Egrets feeding near the road, who kept flying from place to place, giving me lots of practice photographing them in flight. This allowed me to get may different angles of them, and while many of those angles probably won't be framed and hung on a wall, they are a big help if you are trying to identify the bird from a pose that isn't in your typical bird book.
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Ducks resting at the edge of the shore. The reddish one is probably a Cinnamon Teal. (11/10/2012, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge)
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Ducks resting at the edge of the shore. The reddish one is probably a Cinnamon Teal. (11/10/2012, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge)

Ducks resting at the edge of the shore. The reddish one is probably a Cinnamon Teal. 11102012Sacramento National Wildlife RefugeSacramento National Wildlife RefugeWillowsCA20121110 November 102012

  • A flock of birds (mostly white Snow Geese) out in the water. (11/10/2012, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge)
  • A flock of birds (mostly white Snow Geese) out in the water, with White-Fronted Geese in the shade in the foreground (grey birds with pinkish bills). (11/10/2012, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge)
  • A flock of backlit white Snow Geese flying against the blue sky. (11/10/2012, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge)
  • A flock of backlit white Snow Geese flying against the blue sky. (11/10/2012, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge)
  • A flock of backlit white Snow Geese flying against the blue sky. (11/10/2012, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge)
  • Ducks resting at the edge of the shore. The reddish one is probably a Cinnamon Teal. (11/10/2012, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge)
  • Silhouetted geese and ducks in the water, with the sun behind a row of clouds. (11/10/2012, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge)
  • Backlit head of a Great Egret. (11/10/2012, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge)
  • Geese in the water at sunset, with a lot more flying in the sky. (11/10/2012, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge)
  • Geese in the water at sunset, with backlit sunset clouds reflected in the water. (11/10/2012, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge)
  • Geese in the water at sunset, with more birds flying in the sky, and backlit sunset clouds reflected in the water. (11/10/2012, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge)
  • Geese in the water at sunset, with more birds flying in the sky, and backlit sunset clouds reflected in the water. (11/10/2012, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge)
  • Geese (mostly Snow Geese) swimming in the water near sunset. (11/10/2012, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge)
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