Ridgefield NWR.

I had a nice trip up to Ridgefield yesterday morning, despite the frenzy of bunny rabbits making Ralph act like a complete nut job.  It was gorgeous out which was awesome after some cloudy/rainy days...

Cinnamon Teals are still all over the place.  This makes me happy.

I walked the little trail to the bird blind and found a Barn Swallow perched in the blind.  He didn't budge even when I got ridiculously close, likely because of a nest up in the corner.

I made it about five minutes on the Kiwa Trail before I heard Ralph barking like crazy because this little bugger decided to have some salad snacks right next to my car...

Ah well, no trail for me.  In the trees past the snoozing owl kids I found a river otter sitting along the water eating a big ole fishy thing...

Otters are adorable even when tearing apart dead stuff.

I saw my first baby coots and grebes of the season...

The Pied-billed Grebe mom was catching little fish for her two kids, who would race each other to be the lucky recipient...

The eagle kids are getting huge- I finally was able to see them moving around in the nest and couldn't believe how big they are now...

And that was about it!  Good times!!