After my dental appointment, we headed out for the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge before heading home. Surprisingly, we were greeted by several Ringed-neck Ducks at the beginning of the auto tour.
Considering how many Ring-necked Ducks we had seen in the last two weeks, I was convinced I was experiencing a true Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.
As it turned out, we didn’t see another Ring-necked Duck on the tour. Instead, we were soon greeted by several Green-winged Teal feeding along the shoreline.
They weren’t the only birds feeding along the shoreline; this Yellowlegs dashed back and forth, trying to avoid being photographed.
On the far end of the autoroute, Leslie spotted a Great Egret,
a common bird in California but one that has only recently started moving North to Washington, about the same time that Vultures and Scrub Jays started showing up in here.