My Ashland friends, Kirk Gooding and Shannon Rio, bird the Klamath Basin and Shasta Valley nearly every week. Here’s some of Kirk’s photos from Shasta yesterday. BITTERNS BITE ON FROGS
Of course, frog legs have been a delicacy for many species from heron to grebe to otter to those Gold Rush Forty-Niners. After they ate all the natives they imported bullfrogs from back East and the bullfrog plagues us still.
FALCONEERING
Northern Pintail male in eclipse plumage but that elegant neck and blue racing stripe on the beak gives him away…not just another dull brown duck after all. Savannah in the American savannah. Shasta over all, never over awe. One of the world’s most beautiful volcanoes. First year Baldie; cow outstanding in his field:
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