I counted six wood ducks living on an island in a city park.
While I’ve photographed double-crested cormorants on the coast, I saw my first one inland yesterday on a pond two miles from California’s state capitol.
Yesterday I hoped to photograph some winter birds in Sacramento, but I didn’t see a single one, so I walked to pond to take shots of waterfowl. There were mallards, trumpeter swans and Canadian geese. The big surprise was that a family of wood ducks are living on an island in the middle of the pond. And, for the first time I saw a double-crested cormorant in this city of one million-plus.
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We are loaded with cormorants here along the Gloucester coast, but I have never, ever seen one inland.
Sacramento is by a network of marshes full of waterfowl such as egrets and herons. But the cormorant is a new arrival to inland Sacramento in my experience. The city is about 85 miles from the ocean, but only 60 miles from bay waters.
We are loaded with cormorants here along the Gloucester coast, but I have never, ever seen one inland.
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Sacramento is by a network of marshes full of waterfowl such as egrets and herons. But the cormorant is a new arrival to inland Sacramento in my experience. The city is about 85 miles from the ocean, but only 60 miles from bay waters.
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