We went to the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge today Jan 5, 2015 and it was a great experience. "The Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge is located 40 miles north of the Mexican border at the southern end of the Salton Sea in California’s Imperial Valley."
... that landed in a field below the observation platform...
... observing them more closely I realized they did not all have the exact same coloring.
... looking all around for food...
... and others playing catch me if you can...
Across the pond were several Northern Shovels snaking as they floated along the reeds.
Just when we thought our birding day was done Sharyn spotted this Vermilion Flycatcher next to the entrance of the RV park where we are staying - It was a very good day for bird watching.
Quote of the Day~ “I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of
on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation
insiders...Instead, I suspect computers will deviously chew away at
libraries from the inside. They'll eat up book budgets and require
librarians that are more comfortable with computers than with children
and scholars. Libraries will become adept at supplying the public with
fast, low-quality information.
The result won't be a library without books--it'll be a library without value.” ~ Clifford Stoll (Arthor of one of my favorite books "The Cockoo's Egg" - Well worth reading
