You're probably wondering what the point of this trip is if we're just travelling from Walmart to Walmart. Don't they look the same everywhere? Indeed they do.
But there's no point in stopping if the weather's still cold. Well, when we arrived in Redding yesterday we hopped out to 18 C temperatures. It felt balmy! Time to take off the down jackets.
So today we headed for Westgate Landing Regional Park on the S. Mokelumne River, part of the Sacramento River delta. It's Friday today so we worried that the park might fill up for the weekend but that doesn't seem to be a problem. There were only 3 parties camped and just after we arrived a large motorhome pulled in beside us. And started their generator, grrrr.
There's only about 12 sites and some picnic tables and a dock and empty moorings for boats. We're in the middle of farmers' fields
with a dyke between us and the river.
We walked along the dyke;
there's tons of birds here, waterbirds, lots of overwintering sandhill cranes and brants, blackbirds, northern harrier, , and species we don't see up north like black phoebe, red-shouldered hawk and northern mockingbird. We saw 24 species, not bad for an hour walk.
Leo took this great picture of a green heron so we'll call it the bird of the day.
We ended the day with this spectacular sunset.
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