Consumnes River Preserve

Today we went birding. We saw sandhill cranes, my favorite! We also saw greater white-fronted geese, pintails, northern shovelers, coots, mallards, egrets, a black necked stilt, a black phoebe... We saw an egret eating a snake, amazing and gross. We met a strange old Scot who helped us ID stuff and made us laugh. I sat at a picnic table near the visitor's center writing letters while Erik and our friend A did more birding. Then at sunset we watched the sandhill cranes come in, hundreds of them. I lack the patience for hardcore birding, but I like it in smaller doses.