Half-way decent rainfall last night, definitely enough to at least freshen our super dry landscape...so I took a stroll through the Laguna de Santa Rosa, accessible from Sebastopol.
Red-shouldered hawk in tall oak tree, the Laguna
Snowy Egret, one of a pair hunting for food in the Laguna
Great Blue Heron, the Laguna
Regal looking Great Blue Heron
Double-crested cormorant This looked like a cormorant, and it turned out it was - a double-crested, on a log near the Laguna waterway. Not just a sea bird, apparently.
Great Egret, the Laguna
Red-shafted Flicker
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A small flock of Cedar waxwings (above); as well as many yellow-rumped warblers (below:)
Yellow-rumped warbler, at the Laguna
Found this male Downy woodpecker working on a big hole - guess that's what they like to do this time of year...
Downy woodpecker, in front of a large opening he was working on, at the Laguna
 | Another Great Blue Heron was hunting on the waterway a little farther down. Passing the first Great Blue Heron on the way back out of the Laguna, I saw a fluffed-up snowy egret had perched near him - and the heron looked like he was asleep. | |
Great Blue Heron with a snowy egret friend -notice that the egret has leg bands