Josey Ranch – February 2024
/When I first arrived at Josey Ranch, I didn’t think I was going to see very many birds. Then I started to notice more. Ring-billed gulls on the boardwalk and shore.
Pigeons strutting – the iridescent color of their feathers changing as they moved.
I excepted the flotilla of scaups. They seem to be the bird I see most this winter.
A coot came out of the water, and I got pictures of its feet (so different…they look a little dangerous) and next to a Canada goose for a size comparison.
There were a few shovelers.
But the treat were cormorants on the water….I took several sequences because there seemed to be so many cormorants making the maneuver.
One bird swam around with wings arched for a long time. Was it to dry the feathers….or show off for a lady?
