On our last day in Santa Rosa we took a final loop around Lake Ralphine/Spring Lake. We began by spotting a pair of Double-Crested Cormorants practicing their Tai Chi moves.
At the end of Lake Ralphine we spotted a Mute Swan paddling around while another swan sat on the shore (nesting?).
Nearby was a Black-Crowned Night Heron hunting for a meal. I wondered if this was where the herons nesting in the Santa Rosa Nursery came to forage while a mate nested. It seemed a long flight.
Back at the car, we finally caught a glimpse of the pair of Red-Shouldered Hawks that arre nesting in the parking lot.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t manage to focus on the hawk as it flew from the nest to get the squirrel its mate had brought back. But after two days of getting nothing more than a shot of a hawk’s head barely sticking up above the edge of the nest, I was quite happy with this shot.