We headed north from Davis to explore the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge is a complex of multiple locations and all that remain of the vast seasonal wetlands and grasslands that once existed in the Sacramento Valley.
Millions of waterfowl migrate down the Pacific Flyway to winter in the Central Valley--including wigeons, pintails, shovelers, teals, and mallards. Snow & Ross geese, white fronted geese, and tundra swans. Shore birds. Birds by the tens of thousands. Sand hill cranes by the hundreds and hundreds. We drove slowly through several complexes -- lots of honking for sure. At sunset the birds all depart at once in "the fly off" as they head to nearby fields for easy grazing under cover of night.
A fun couple of days while we figure out our December plans. Mostly to try and keep warm till we head south to the desert.
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