Since Monday Is For The Birds ...

Hello, everyone!  It's me, Cammie.  Since Monday is for the birds, Mags and I thought we'd get the "birds" part of our most recent adventure out of the way today.  A few weeks ago, we ventured down to Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area and Quivira National Wildlife Refuge to do some birding.  Here is a sampling of what we saw!

Both locations had a lot of Ibises:

White-Faced Ibis

And Cormorants:

Double-Crested Cormorant

We saw these guys at Quivira NWR; Mom was thrilled with how her shots came out:

American Coot

Pied-Billed Grebe

Quivira was teeming with herons - especially Great Blues:

Great Blue Heron

There were also a good number of our favorites -- the Snowy:

Snowy Egret

That one is either giving Mom the finger (talon?) or flashing a gang sign.  We aren't sure which.

Moving on to more members of the heron family that were present in good numbers ...

Cattle Egrets

Great Egret (in a field with Snowies)

And on the more elusive side of the heron family ...

American Bittern

That guy surprised us!

There were quite a few Black-Necked Stilts.  Some were engaging in protective behavior like we showed you last time because of the youngsters in the area!

Juvenile Black-Necked Stilt being mentored by his daddy

I think he was teaching him how to fish for bugs for himself!  And speaking of going bugging, these guys were having a feeding frenzy!

American Avocets

If you'd like to see a video Mom took of Avocets (and friends) at both the Bottoms and Quivira, please click here!

And last, but certainly not least (except in size), we also saw a few of Mom's favorite ...

❤❤ Snowy Plover!!! ❤❤

We think he should get an A+ on his camouflage job!

Please tune in tomorrow to see our scenery shots - and a couple of us girls, too!

Thanks for going birding with us!

Cammie!