Disciples of Icarus... - a photo on Flickriver

            In March of 2018, I was returning from one of my solo trips to Canada and decided to take an extra travel day, stopping at the Sacramento and Colusa NWRs. The first afternoon, I explored Sacramento NWR until sundown and was enchanted; the following morning, in the freezing, pitch black before dawn and breakfast, I was out of my motel and at Colusa.

Surrounded by thousands of Snow Geese rising up from the dark pond where they had spent the night, heading into the sunrise, I started to plan my next visit.

Up until this moment, I had thought the distance from home to these NWRs too far to do in a single day making the logistics concerning our dogs too complicated (at the time, there were no nearby, dog-friendly hotels). It wasn't until October that I was able to return with my husband... and the pups, of course. Since then, we have made the 5-hour, round trip many times over. The drive is nothing when rewarded by this kind of magic.

We consider ourselves lucky to have these parks so close.

Taken in: United States / California / Colusa (show map)

Taken on: March 8, 2018

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Colusa National Wildlife Refuge

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Family Anatidae

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