Super Bowl Sunday

On Sunday, Nick and I went for a hike out at the sloughs southwest of  Napa.  It was unusually warm and calm, and we took our time looking for wildlife.

 There is a hay barn that I always like to take a look in.  There were two Great Horned Owls up in the rafters.

 The marshes are a combination of sloughs, old salt ponds, agricultural land, and levees.  It is an open and usually quiet area considering its proximity to the urban Bay Area.

 There were hawks galore, like these two Red-tailed Hawks cavorting on a wind machine.  We also saw several Northern Harriers cruising low to the ground.

 Red-tailed Hawk

 A pair of Buffleheads.

 A flock of Northern Pintail ducks resting.

 Nick checking out an upturned root ball of a tree.

 Northern Pintails and a shorebird.

 A pair of Commmon Goldeneyes.

 A pair of Northern Pintails

 A Northern Shoveler.

 Be careful, hawk!

 This Turkey Vulture liked resting on railroad tracks.

 This is the famed Carneros wine region of Napa and Sonoma Valleys.

A sandpiper of some sort rounds out this post. As usual, exploring with Nick was good fun.