For our first trip after Bill's retirement, we headed to Klamath Falls, Oregon. We made a loop at the Klamath Marsh National Wildlife Refuge and saw some beautiful terrain where there was still ice on the marshes. This is a tricolor blackbird.
Canada Geese
Flying Male Merganser
Female and Male Merganser
Flying Bufflehead
Mt. ?
Upon arrival in downtown Klamath Falls, we saw this tree full of Black-crowned Night Heron
How many can you count?
We had enough time to explore some flooded fields just above the Lower Klamath Wildlife Refuge.
Below is a Ferruginous Hawk
Great Blue Heron
Swans in the evening light
We saw our first eagle finishing his dinner
We drove to the Lower Klamath Refuge and saw this nest.
Swans
Snow geese
A gorgeous evening sky (we could not have ordered nicer weather the whole time we were there)
We got up bright and early the next morning and started in the Lower Klamath Refuge where we knew there would be eagles. They fly out in large numbers from the nearby Bear Valley Wildlife Refuge.
Tricolor Blackbird
Eagle
This doesn't look like much, but it was beautiful in the fog.
A male Bufflehead in the early morning fog
Swans and a variety of ducks
Fun reflections :-)
Yellowlegs
Sandhill cranes
During the morning we saw many eagles eating "breakfast" in the fields.
When an eagle flies, so does everything else!
Stone lookout in the cliff above the Tulle Lake Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center
Purple Finch
Swamp Sparrow
The marsh near the visitor center was delightful
Cattails
Driving around the Tulle Lake Refuge, we enjoyed this eagle on top of a post.
Snow Geese
Mt. Shasta to the south (we were in California at this point)
It was a very warm day!
We drove to Pertoglyph Point in Lava Beds National Monument and made several discoveries. Above: Cliff Swallow nests
Many years ago the Mo doc Indians made carvings in these cliffs.
An unlikely place to find two Canada Geese!
A little farther south we walked around "Captain Jack's Stronghold" (a place in the lava beds where a group of Mo Doc Indians withstood the US Army). We heard this Great Horned Owl as we headed back to our car, and we were able to locate him in a nearby tree.
We headed north again and saw a herd of about 40 Mule Deer.
One last drive around the flooded fields above the Lower Klamath Refuge gave us the opportunity to see several raptors. This is a Red Tailed Hawk.
We saw more Snow Geese and some Greater White-fronted Geese
I think this is a Rough-legged Hawk
Rough-legged Hawk
Male Northern Harrier
Ferruginous Hawk
We went for a walk the morning before we left near our hotel at the Running Y Ranch. We heard this Sap Sucker before we located him :-).
Mule Deer
The lodge where we stayed at the Running Y Ranch
Couldn't resist taking pictures of these old tractors in a field on our drive home :-).
We had a wonderful trip!!!
