Vacation Photos

Laurie and I just returned from ten days of vacation on the Oregon Coast — and an overnight stop in Ridgefield to check out the refuge. Of course, we took our cameras, although to be honest, for the most part, they stayed in the car because of poor light and just not that many opportunities to photograph birds. I did end up spending time in the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge and again in Newport on the jetty where I ended up with some photos I liked, and so here they are. It was nice to add some nice photos of a Savannah Sparrow to my library, but I think my favorite is that of the Black-tailed Deer sticking his tongue out at me as he wandered past us in the refuge. It was early at the refuge, and birding overall was mostly slow as the summer birds have moved out but the winter birds aren’t really here year — but we did have some early Greater-White-Fronted Geese and a couple of Sandhill Cranes to whet my appetite for winter birding….The trip did add two species (Rusty Blackbird and…