Smith and Bybee

Yesterday Greg came by after lunch and we went out into the warm sunshine along the Columbia. We stopped at Broughton Beach and watched some gulls fight over a good-sized fish, then drove on over to the preserve at Smith and Bybee Lakes.




We were a little mixed up at first... the stuff they did last year changed the parking and path layout, so we first went to the far south end of the water. Then we went back up to the old path, made a stop at the lookout and headed to the far lookout. There wasn't much in the way of excitement, bird-wise -- in fact, it was pretty quiet. Still, it was about 75 degrees and sunny and the colorful leaves are still on the trees.

Here's what it looked like there:


Here's a Great Blue Heron... this photo was taken by simply putting my camera up to Greg's spotting scope: