Grebes x 4

So grateful to have gotten to see 4 different types of Grebes at our local wildlife refuges over the years!

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Grebe Photography ☼ Western, Clark's, Pied-billed and Eared

Enjoy this collection of my some of my best Grebe photos (so far!) featuring Clark's Grebe, Pied-billed Grebe, Eared Grebe, and Western Grebe...

Birds of Tule Lake NWR

The Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located in northern California near the Oregon border. It covers almost 40,000 acres in the Tule Lake basin. These are some of the birds I've spotted during my visits to the refuge throughout the seasons...

For more photos of Tule Lake NWR sightings, visit my website's archive here.

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Gray Lodge Wildlife Area Drive-thru Window

Here are a few more photos from the Gray Lodge Wildlife Area auto tour...

Snowy Egret and friends

Wigeons and Pintails

Pied-billed Grebe

Great Egret

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Variety at Gray Lodge

We saw a variety of different birds at the Gray Lodge Wildlife Area!

Pied-billed Grebe

Black Phoebe

Great Egret with the best view in the house!

European Starling with something to say

Anybody home???

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Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge - Part 7

We took waaay too many photos while we were at the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge to fit them all into one or two posts! Here is the seventh installment, complete with some cute little mallard ducklings...

Stay tuned tomorrow for an Ibis that walks on water...

Colusa County Birding

As I've mentioned before, the back roads between Llano Seco and the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge offer some of the best birding in our area. County Road P and Road 61 are a couple of our favorites. Here's a map to help show you what I'm talking about.

Anywho, we spotted a rookery of Snowy Egrets on Road Z...

 This female Belted Kingfisher had a nice little fishing spot on Road 61...

And this Common Gallinule and Pied-billed Grebes were swimming in the irrigation canal below her...

Here are some Great Egrets on the south end of Road P...

 ...along with a male Belted Kingfisher on the same road...

 On the north end of Road P, we came upon a Great Blue Heron...

...plus, tons of Greater White-fronted Geese and a group of White-faced Ibises...

This just goes to show that you don't always have to go to a wildlife refuge to see birds. They are all around us and sometimes you just have to be willing to go off the beaten path to find them.

Birding is an adventure that continues to amaze and surprise me!