Pictures by Clarence.
Lucky us! It was a Wednesday and a bright, sunny day for a walk at Gray Lodge. Seven of us joined Karen (yes, Karen! and she's looking good) down in the valley hinterlands looking for BIRDS. Tiana wanted the money taker to assure us that we would, in fact, see birds. And birds we saw - tundra swans and snow geese, red-tailed hawks, and ducks galore.
The wheeling flocks made wonderful swishing/chickenyard calls as they would tentatively decide to take to the air in great hords of flapping and group wheeling, take a few turns and settle down again to noisily floating around in groups of like species. Karen brought some extra persimmons and delicious persimmon bars for all at lunch. It was great to see her and all agreed that in spite of the low foot mileage, we had a lovely day.
If you go looking for Gray Lodge, follow the green line from Route 70 in Gridley. We continued to look for the flock of elusive ibis. Instead, we headed home, checking out the piles of free-for- the-taking rice hulls and happy that we had been properly warned by an on-coming truck of a speed trap up ahead.
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