Monday, January 22, 2018

return to Hiwassee





Yesterday's cabin fever buster, Ijams Bird-About was great fun. The road trip to Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge that I hosted is an annual family birding adventure. And it didn't hurt that the weather moderated with sunny skies, so we all could recover from being so cooped up indoors.



Birds of interest that we saw were thousands of sandhill cranes, two bald eagles (thanks Kim for spotting them), plus great blue herons, bufflehead, pintail and gadwall ducks, ring-billed gulls, grebes, red-tailed hawk, bluebirds, yellow-rumped warbler and the very non-bird white-tailed deer. But as always, the sandhills are the feature attraction.

Thank you Ijams ambassadors Rex, Kristy and Nick.

Additional photos supplied by Rex McDaniel.

Our next Bird-About will be to Cove Lake on Sunday, February 4. 





















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