Weekend Drive

We took a nice Sunday drive yesterday out into the Caribou National Forest. We passed some wetlands on the way out, noting to stop on the way home. We drove about ten miles and came to McCoy Creek, which was very high, and more like a river! On our way, we did see a moose, which is always cool. When we got to the creek we saw saw about a dozen Western Grebes

and a Double-Crested Cormorant.

It was a fairly windy, cold day, so we didn't get out and hike or anything. We stopped on our way home at the bird refuge/lookout. There were tons and tons of water fowl. Among them were several Wigeons,

lots of Pelicans,

and at least six Great-blue Herons.
We also saw many, many Canada Geese, Mallards, American Coots, a couple Canvasbacks and our first Glossy-faced Ibis of the year. We didn't see anything new, but it was a good trip!